Just a few days before Florida’s October deadline for registering to vote in the 2012 presidential election, authorities in Tallahassee confirmed that the state’s Democratic party and two of its key allies — the New Majority Education Fund and the National Council of La Raza/Democracia USA — were the subject of a criminal investigation into fraudulent voter registrations. In one of life’s little ironies, the New Majority Education Fund has reconstituted itself as the National Open Ballot Project, with an apparently expansive interpretation of the word “open.”
The news from Florida includes the worst kind of bipartisanship: Earlier in the same week, a contractor hired by Florida Republicans found itself the subject of a criminal investigation, also related to allegations of fraudulent voter registrations. In Florida, that’s a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. If there are convictions in these cases, the guilty should do every day of those five years.
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