. . . making it easier and easier to bring home the faithful, dead or alive:

SPRINGFIELD — Lawmakers are relaxing registration requirements for voters this November.

Legislation passed by the General Assembly last month would allow election-day registration and require expanded early voting throughout the state, with a special focus on college campuses. The amendment was attached to a minimum wage ballot referendum bill.

Along with requiring higher education facilities to conduct early voting drives in “high traffic areas” of campus, the bill also requires colleges and universities to send emails to their students with detailed voter registration process information in general election years. The emails will includes links where students can register online.

And thank you, Sen. Harmon (D-Oak Park) for thinking up this ploy:

State Sen. Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, sponsored the amendment from the Senate, and lauded the legislation.

“Anything that makes it easier for people to vote is a good thing,” Harmon said. “This is a meaningful step forward in the evolution of dramatic progress in voter access.”

The easier the better, says Sen. Don. But is there another side to this question?

“Now, the question is what’s the outcome?” asked Sen. Dave Syverson. “And obviously from our standpoint the concern is the integrity of the ballot and what this creates for everybody. When you make it easier for fraud or abuse to take place, that takes away from the integrity of the ballot, which ought to be our biggest priority and concern.”

Fraud or abuse? Why bring that up? It’s the least of Sen. Don’s worries. Tell me, what was the last time you heard a Democrat worry about fraud or abuse, except after the fact, when they lost the election?

More more about this at Rockford Star, “Illinois legislation expands voter access, raises fraud concerns.”