Anyone who still believes that voter fraud is racist, right-wing paranoia should watch the latest video from James O’Keefe. The conservative filmmaker has spent much of this fall exposing voter-fraud potential in Colorado, Texas, and other states.

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This time, the founder of Project Veritas Action traveled to North Carolina and impersonated 30-year-old men (O’Keefe’s demographic) who were listed as inactive on the voter rolls.

On 20 distinct occasions, O’Keefe successfully convinced poll workers that he was various people who he is not. While O’Keefe signed nothing and did not cast those ballots, he very easily could have done so. It is chilling to ponder how conveniently other people could vote one or more times — or perhaps will do so.

Such phony votes could equal the margin of victory in close races, such as tomorrow’s U.S. Senate face-off between incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan and GOP challenger Thom Tillis.

Only one poll worker asked O’Keefe to show ID. Come 2016, all North Carolina voters will have to present photo ID, as well they should. The same liberals who claim that black people are just too confused or disorganized to display photo ID at the polls have no problem with federal rules that force these same black Americans to show photo ID before riding airplanes. Amtrak requires adults to carry photo ID. And just try to enter the Justice Department building to see Attorney General Eric Holder without photo ID. In all of these cases, liberals expect black people to possess photo ID. Only at the polls does the condescending Left infantilize blacks with respect to ID cards.

North Carolina’s Department of Motor Vehicles is sending mobile units across the Tarheel State two years ahead of time to assure that everyone who wants a free photo-ID card gets a free photo-ID card. Nonetheless, race-baiting Democrats still will whine in 2016 that this is all an effort to resurrect Jim Crow.

Until showing photo-ID cards becomes perfectly normal at every American precinct, here is one idea that would prevent scenarios such as the one James O’Keefe dramatized. Just as voters do in Afghanistan, Africa, Iraq (see below), and Latin America, after voters have cast their ballots, they should be required to stick their index fingers in small containers of purple ink.

This will assure that each criminal casts, at most, one fraudulent ballot. Legitimate voters can sleep better knowing that fewer of their valid ballots, if any, are being obviated by bogus ones. The cost of these ink bottles would be trivial, especially compared to their priceless benefit.

Meanwhile, I am dying to hear how soft-on-vote-fraud Democrats explain how purple ink discriminates against black people.