Arlen Specter: “Well, vote fraud is prosecuted. When I was District Attorney of Philadelphia, I prosecuted Republicans and Democrats.…”

“Well, vote fraud is prosecuted. When I was District Attorney of Philadelphia, I prosecuted Republicans and Democrats. Customarily, vote fraud is illegal assistance when somebody goes into the polling place, and this happens, and pulls the lever. There you can have a witness. You can identify the individual, and you can prosecute them. If you are seeking to prosecute someone who has sent in a purported signature which matches the signature on record, and there is registration by mail so that no one ever sees the person, you don't have an identification of the voter in the first instance. If you do not have an ongoing identification of that person's actual existence, it is not virtually impossible. It is impossible. How are you going to find the person who signed their name, even if you ascertain that there is no such person as the purported signature? How are you going to find them? It is not a needle in the haystack. It is a needle in a city of more than a million people.”