“They’ll take the complaint seriously,” King said. “The biggest problem is actually prosecuting the people involved … and being proactive, so when we actually have election irregularities happen, and we’ve had them for years, that you have somebody actually go out and investigate it and then have a process where if you do find something there it is addressed and prosecuted, if needed.”
While Senator Dick Durbin badgers Judiciary Committee hearing witnesses about voter fraud conviction numbers he deems too low to merit attention, Arkansas legislator Bryan King is proposing a solution to the problem: a voter integrity unit with independent prosecutors and judges to investigate voter fraud cases, something he says the state Board of Election Commissioners hasn’t done aggressively enough.