As previously posted, 26 Arizona DMV workers were caught in a driver's license scam

The report Scam spotlights smuggler savvy discusses those arrests, and ends with this bit that would be funny if it wasn't so scary:

...The arrests Thursday mark only the latest in a history of problems at the agency and questions about the ease of getting a state driver's license - problems that Gov. Janet Napolitano has known about for years. As recently as last year, investigators from the General Accounting Office, now the Government Accountability Office, reported they got genuine driver licenses from Arizona and six other states using fake identification. That report to Congress did not surprise Napolitano.

"I know that getting a false ID is not difficult in Arizona," the governor said at the time.

"I suspect you can ask almost any 16-year-old, and they would tell you how to get a false ID. The question is what was done here and what can we do to tighten up as much as possible to make sure that, particularly when we're issuing a driver's license, we know to whom we're issuing it."

Napolitano, speaking to reporters when the new arrests were announced Thursday, said changes in the way the agency operates were made in the wake of that report.

But the governor had no answer when asked how, with those changes, this kind of fraud still could occur at several MVD offices.

"Well, I hope we're not sitting here tomorrow with that situation," she said. "But in point of fact, the plan that we are implementing today is much broader and deeper than anything that has, to my knowledge, been attempted with MVD before."

Gubernatorial aide George Cunningham said many of those details were still being worked out.

Insert the hand gesture of your choice here.

Last year, this fine American vetoed a bill that would have required voters to show identification when voting: Bill on voter ID is vetoed. Those who couldn't show ID would have their ballots set aside while their ID was verified, so, as long they were verified their vote would not have been lost.

It sounds reasonable, but Janet and the Race Industry played their cards:

...Napolitano told the audience [in front of whom she was demagoguing her veto] that combating voter fraud "was not the real reason that bill was passed, and you know that I'm right about that."

Napolitano later told reporters when asked that she did not know what the bill was designed to do. "This bill is not designed to prevent voter fraud, I'll tell you that,"

Earlier, Rep. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix, told the audience that the bill's "sole intent is aimed solely at the Latino community" and the right to vote.

"I don't begin to understand why showing an ID would keep people from voting," said Rep. Linda Gray, R-Phoenix. "Every other place you have to show an ID - you go to the doctor, you sign up for videos."

Thankfully, Napolitano might soon have met her match. Proposition 200 would require ID when registering to vote, and that proposition has very widespread support. Needless to say, Napolitano opposes it, along with other fine Americans.