To the editor:
In the 2008 and 2010 elections combined, North Carolina had a total of 10,059,778 people who voted in the primaries and general elections.
Of that number, 487 people were suspected of voter fraud and were referred to local district attorneys for further investigation and possible prosecution.
I received these facts on March 24, 2011 from Ms. Kara McCraw, staff attorney and legislative analyst to the N.C. General Assembly.
Since the actual prosecutions and convictions are local, Ms. McCraw doesn’t have that number.
Rep. Guice supports the Voter ID law. My question to him, Sen. Apodaca, and others is: Why?
It’s clear there is no widespread violation of our election laws here in North Carolina. Therefore there is no real need for this legislation that will cost taxpayers more and limit citizen participation in our government. North Carolina has excellent election laws now. With only 487 people alleged to have committed any election fraud, there’s obviously no serious threat to our elections processes.
Perhaps where we need to focus our attention is in other processes of our elections, such as the actual counting of the votes.
— Neb Conner, Tryon