A report from Seattle:

The Secretary of State’s Office fired up a new multimillion-dollar computer in 2006. Its job was to catch, and then cancel, illegal voters. Well, not all illegal voters. KIRO-TV recently ran its own data to double check the state’s work. Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne found out the system was set up to ignore the existence of approximately 24,000 convicted felons…

Halsne: “You’re a convicted felon?” Wilkinson: “Yeah. I am. I fought it, but they said no jail. So, then, it really never bothered me because I thought, well, I’m never going to be president, so I don’t care. Really. Then, when you brought up that I’m not supposed to vote, they send me my ballots. I’ve been voting for the last 10 years. ” An extensive computer analysis, independently conducted by KIRO Team 7 Investigators, found that Wilkinson is just one of 23,927 criminals on the active voter database.

According to some, concern about voter fraud is a “right-wing feeding frenzy.” Maybe so, but what does that imply about those who are indifferent to such shenanigans?

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