Cue the Hysteria

I hope I'm wrong, but I imagine we're going to be seeing a lot more about this alleged vote fraud in St. Louis as evidence that Missouri needs a restrictive Photo ID law.  If and when Photo ID advocates decide to use this, they'll have to work hard to ignore the fact that photo identification wouldn't have prevented the type of alleged problems uncovered by the city Election Board.

Most of those votes -- 32 -- were cast in November by people who used vacant lots or abandoned buildings as their address...

Another handful voted twice in November, February or April elections, Leiendecker said. In all but one case, the suspects apparently voted in the city of St. Louis and also in St. Louis County, or they voted in St. Louis and also in Illinois.

The exception was a person who voted absentee at the Election Board headquarters on Saturday, before the April election, and then voted again on Election Day.

"We've done our job here. We're turning our information over to the federal prosecutor,'' Leiendecker said.

(As an aside: It doesn't appear that the government-issued photo IDs sought by some state officials, primarily Republicans, would have prevented the type of alleged voting irregularities uncovered by the city Election Board.)

From the initial descriptions, these look more like voting registration problems than voting problems.  We'll learn more as Leiendecker works the press for more headlines, I'm sure.