Shocker Alert: Republicans very concerned about "Voter Fraud"

This article in the Times tells us the shocking news that several key election states have been purging thousands of voters from their roles. Even more shocking, is that Democrats are leading the charge to restore voting rights to the disenfranchised. And, make sure you're sitting down when you hear this one, Republicans are very concerned that people may be illicitly voting. Get this statemet:

"Republicans said in the motion that it is central to American democracy that nonqualified voters be forbidden from voting."

Ah the old republican line of B.S. Since when has voter fraud even entered into our national election radar? 1960? When was the last time a group of people claimed their votes were denied or altered by a corrupt system? Oh yeah, the LAST TWO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.

It is a famed tall tale that President Kennedy was elected by "dead men" in Illinois. It seems every conservative is afraid the dead will rise out of their coffins and destroy the country by voting for dangerously unqualified democrats. Since when did the dems have a lock on the zombie vote?

As was once eloquently stated, it is better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongly convicted (Crazy left-wing stuff, I know). I think that standard applies to voting. Better that 10 people commit voter fraud than a legitimate voter be disenfranchised. I can deal with voter fraud, because at worst it would be done on a small scale by those with little to no power. Those people can be caught, charged, and when they are issued a subpoena they'll actually answer it unlike the Bush administration and the current Vice Presidential candidate.

Should we regulate it? Yes, but it's clear from this article that we are fumbling in the dark and in the meantime those with much greater access and ability can purge certain kinds of voters. The kind that are poor, and black, and Democrats usually.

If our infrastructure isn't set up to prevent voter fraud, that doesn't give the government carte blanche to take our rights away. So states are unable to police their own elections and then punish the people they govern by taking away their right to vote, for fear that a few might get to vote a few extra times? Is this as transparantly undemocratic to everyone else?