John Fund’s latest in the National Review Online.

Mr. Fund is a very careful writer.  One paragraph (the brackets are mine) states:

One of the examples [Secretary Gessler] cites [as reason to be afraid of same-day registration] is Wisconsin. In 2008, a 68-page Milwaukee Police Department report confirmed that in the last presidential election, claims that thousands “more ballots [were] cast than voters recorded were found to be true.” The report found that there had been an organized effort by political operatives from out of state to swing the election. It concluded “that the one thing that could eliminate a large percentage of fraud or the appearance of fraudulent voting in any given election is the elimination of the on-site or same-day voter registration system.”

The second sentence describes administrative incompetence.  The third sentence — “an organized effort by political operatives from out of state to swing the election” — describes every election in which campaign staff aren’t all local natives.  And the fourth sentence describes the potential for elimination of same-day registration to prevent the appearance of fraud.

But those reviewing the report in question for proof of an organized effort by political operatives from out of state to swing an election through fraud will be disappointed.  Instead, the report found votes by 16 campaign workers whose residency was questioned by the Milwaukee Police Department in an apparent disagreement about the basis for establishing residency for voting purposes with the attorneys of the Milwaukee prosecutors’ office.  (There’s more on the police department report here.)  Just FYI.