Yet another editorial board raising eyebrows at the recent Virginia State Board of Election push to change the voter registration form:
Clearly, theses changes are not going to encourage voter fraud, which some allege. But the modifications being proposed also aren’t likely to improve the quality of the voting process either and could actually create more confusion.
To the contrary, increasing opportunities for voter fraud to occur? Encourages same. It’s the equivalent of leaving your car doors unlocked in the alley.
What should concern many at this point is that these changes to the form — boxes that would require the applicant to reaffirm they are not a felon and are a U.S. citizen — didn’t exactly come to the fore through the normal process.
It had to be discovered… and few answers have been delivered as to whom precisely requested the changes.
Such are the times.
