Which is perfectly fine with the activists who clamored to get motor-voter on the books. Ask Richard Cloward, executive director of Human Serve, the New York-based lobby that led the fight. The theory behind motor-voter is no one should ever have to overcome any hurdle, however trivial, in order to register to vote. They want piles of registration blanks set out at libraries and cafeterias. They want state caseworkers aggressively registering welfare recipients and food stamp applicants.
Nothing is to stand in the way of swelling the voter rolls.
Not even a voter's own indifference, ignorance, or unfitness to cast a ballot. Had Jemima wanted to, she could have registered and voted in all 50 states. She could have registered not just in Chicago, but in every Illinois town from Rockford to Carbondale. Motor-voter does more than make such election fraud possible. It makes it probable.