[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 21 (Monday, March 4, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S1412]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            ELECTION REFORM

  Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I understand we are going to be going 
back to a vote pretty soon relative to the issue of antifraud 
provisions associated with election reform. We all have different views 
on this issue. I can certainly recognize and support the simplicity of 
encouraging voters to have a relatively easy method to vote and 
register. However, Mr. Bond, the Senator from Missouri, has made quite 
a point of how fraud occurs. I gather we have seen scams, particularly 
in Missouri, relative to voter fraud, registering dead neighbors and 
diseased alderman, and in one case a dog that evidently voted several 
times and the jig was up when the dog was called for jury duty.
  A system that allows that much flexibility is a little too flexible. 
I hope we address reasonable requirements to encourage people to vote 
but have reasonable identification so we do not have fraudulent 
activities such as the dog that was called to jury duty.

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