In state after state, lawmakers on the Right have been introducing regressive voter ID provisions. The reason, they claim, is to combat voter fraud.

But there just isn't much voter fraud out there. If you weigh the number of eligible voters who will be discouraged from voting or downright disenfranchised (elderly, nondrivers, innercity, poor) against the number of voter fraud cases that have been discovered, the ratio is ridiculous: as someone at the joint Brookings/AEI conference said last week, "You're more likely to be hit by lightning on the way to the polling place than to commit voter fraud."

However, a case of voter fraud has recently come to light in Florida. Unbelievably, Ann Coulter (yes that Ann Coulter) knowingly voted in the wrong precinct, a third-degree felony in Florida.

From the Palm Beach Post: "She wrote down an Indian Road address instead of Seabreeze on her voter's registration application. And she signed to certify the information as true.

"'She never lived here,' said Suzanne Frisbie, owner of the Indian Road home. 'I'm Ann's realtor, and she used this address to forward mail when she moved from New York.'

"Florida statutes make it a third-degree felony to vote knowingly in the wrong precinct. Lying on a voter's registration can cost up to $5,000 and five years behind bars."

We say, throw the book at her!