Count every vote!

Of course, until you realize that some folks are voting twice. The New York Daily News says that some 46,000 New Yorkers are registered both in NYC and in Florida, and has verified that at least hundreds (possibly thousands) are guilty of double voting in at least one presidential election. As you would expect, this is illegal under the laws of both states, but since the states themselves don't cross check voter registrations with one another the practice goes unprosecuted.

A couple big eyebrow-raisers:

Of the 46,000 registered in both states, 68% are Democrats, 12% are Republicans and 16% didn't claim a party.

Nearly 1,700 of those registered in both states requested that absentee ballots be mailed to their home in the other state, where they are also registered. But that doesn't raise red flags with officials in either place.

A fifty-six percent edge, Democrats over Republicans, in the double-registrants! For a supposedly "progressive" party, those Democrats are downright conservative when it comes to preserving the tradition of Chicago-machine style vote fraud! And this proffered justification is illuminating:

Edwin Peterson, 66, a registered Democrat in Palm Coast, Fla., and St. Albans, Queens, attributed his dual vote in the 2000 election to his distrust of the party running the Sunshine State.

"That was a situation where Florida is so messed up with the Republicans, you don't know if your vote is even going to be counted," Peterson said. "It's been like that forever."

So this guy is willing to break the law and undermine the system on his own suspicion of the other party's ill-intent. I'm fine with these people gleaning comfort from such rationalizations -- once they've been heavily fined or jailed. Otherwise these shenanigans will continue and expand.