I can hear the post-election cries of a stolen election now. “They cheated,” Sean Hannity will say, taking his usual kernel of truth from a news story and Hannitizing the hell out of it, “They registered a dog and Lord knows who else!”
Yes, it’s true. A cute little Bichon Frise named Captain Chito was mailed a voter registration form by the Alabama Democratic Party. It has been established that the form was never processed. What hasn’t been established is 1) who initiated the mailing and 2) what poll worker would actually give a four legged ball o’ fluff a ballot?
In other words, there are a lot of hurdles one needs to jump over (without the benefit of having four legs) to commit “voter fraud” and almost all of them are federal offenses bringing 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. And even though some have tried really, really hard to find and prosecute such cases, only 23 have been prosecuted since 2002 (out of millions of votes cast).
The non-partisan Brennan Center has the skinny on “voter fraud” at truthaboutfraud.org. And keep in mind, that even though dogs can have a political affiliation, they cannot vote.
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