A legal scholar and former official on the Federal Election Commission says a recent voter fraud incident shows what some people are willing to do to win elections.
Patrick Moran, the son of Congressman Jim Moran (D-Virginia), has resigned from his father's campaign in response to an undercover video revealing his discussion about a plan to cast fraudulent ballots.
Last week Project Veritas, led by James O'Keefe, released the video of an undercover operative pitching a voter fraud plan to the younger Moran that called for casting ballots under the names of 100 voters who were registered but rarely voted.
In the video, Patrick Moran expresses doubts about the plan, but eventually tells the undercover volunteer to "look into it."
Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation and co-author of Who's Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk, says the footage of Patrick Moran shows an "unfortunate" truth.
"That video shows why states need to implement photo ID requirements for voting, and it shows the unfortunate willingness of some who work in campaigns to commit fraud in order to win elections," he offers.
Von Spakovsky hopes there will be an investigation of Moran's work.
"It looks like he may have violated federal law, which makes it a federal felony to attempt to defraud an election by facilitating or otherwise helping to cast fraudulent ballots," the legal fellow explains.
Jim Moran's campaign office is calling the incident an error in judgment, but von Spakovsky says this is only one of a series of videos Project Veritas has released exposing voter fraud.