You omitted to mention that you were quoting from a

Posted on: October 17, 2016 at 22:42:31 CT

different article than the one they linked to and were quoting from.

They were quoting from:

http://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/voter-fraud-alleged-in-kankakee-county/article_e82562e7-5c57-5efd-a7a2-ae737e8913f0.html

You were quoting from:

http://www.progressillinois.com/news/content/2016/10/06/federal-state-officials-meet-kankakee-co-states-attorney-over-voter-fraud

Which you didn't link to, btw, giving the false impression that you were quoting from the article they did and they were deliberately distorting the story.

For what it's worth, problems in either direction undermine the veracity of our political process and rectifying those problems should be a high priority.

Denying people who have a right to vote the ability to do so, or to allow people to vote who should not be doing so are both serious violations and should be investigated and perpetrators prosecuted to the full extent of the law.