ABC News at WTVD-TV, serving Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, reported yesterday that four Wake County residents have been charged with voter fraud for voting twice in the last presidential election. 

The article reports:

According to arrest warrants, Leache filed a no-excuse absentee application on Oct. 29, 2008, as well as voted at the polling place on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Raleigh on Nov. 4.

Leache later admitted to authorities that she did vote twice in the presidential election.

Hodges and McLean – who also is facing unrelated charges from this past June – both each participated in early voting at Chavis Heights Community Center in Raleigh and later voted on Election Day at their local fire department polling place, according to court documents.

They also admitted to the charges.

The article describes the fourth voter:

A fourth person, 54-year-old Lela Devonetta Murray of Edwards Mill Road in Raleigh, was also charged with voter registration fraud.

Authorities charge that she voted on Election Day 2010 as a transfer voter in one precinct and then voted on Election Day provisionally in another precinct. The reason given for the second vote was “wrong precinct.”

This incident underscores the need for better checking of voters during an election.  It also shows the dangers of early voting.  The fraud was discovered because someone investigated, but we should be able to check our voting records a lot sooner than these records were checked.  We need voter identification laws that protect the concept of one man, one vote.  Anything else cancels the votes of those of us who only vote once.