Catherine Rampell: Punish public officials who disenfranchise voters

Washington — In the federal government and in most states, there are consequences when governments deprive Americans of their constitutional right to liberty — through, say, wrongful imprisonment.So why aren’t there more meaningful consequences when states deprive Americans of their constitutional right to vote?Again and again, “voter fraud” has been shown to be virtually nonexistent. Yet in the name of eradicating this imagined scourge, state officials around the c