Posted on 04/24/2010 12:45:30 PM PDT by American Dream 246
The Democrats are out to weaken voter ID laws, despite the lessons we should have learned during the election of 2000.
John Fund in the Wall Street Journal on what is happening in Wisconsin:
An attempt to hijack the state's election laws and open the door for voter fraud failed at the last minute this week in Wisconsin's legislature. But threats to ballot integrity continue in other states, and Congress may rush to pass ill-conceived legislation this year that would only sow confusion and increase the potential for chaos on a national level. Wisconsin's story shows how high the stakes are. Late in March, a 72-page bill was suddenly introduced and rushed forward with only abbreviated hearings. The bill would have given "nationally recognized" community organizing groups access to the state driver's license database to encourage voter turnout. After the infamous registration scandals involving Acorn in 2008, this was clearly a strange priority. Requests for an absentee ballot in a single election would also become permanent (without requiring a legitimate reason, such as infirmity), and the ballots would be automatically mailed out in future elections.
Coercion and chicanery are made much easier by the excessive use of absentee ballots. Most of the elections thrown out by courts-Miami, Florida's mayoral election in 1998, the East Chicago, Indiana's mayor's race in 2005-involved fraudulent absentee votes.
Three decades ago absentee and early ballots were only 5% of all votes cast nationwide. In 2008, they exceeded 25%. Wisconsin's bill would also have allowed voters to register on the Internet without supplying a signature-thus removing a valuable protection against identity theft and election fraud.
Nobody opposes legitimate efforts to increase voter participation - as long as reasonable safeguards are in place that assure the integrity of the ballot. This is obviously not the intent of the Democrats pushing these bills and they should be resisted as an effort to game the electoral system and gain an unfair, illegal advantage over the GOP.
What happened to the Wisconsin bill?
http://www.secstateproject.org/
This bunch is big trouble and another Soros funded attempt at a take over. Worse yet they’re having a great deal of success with 11 wins in 13 states they’ve attempted.
For an idea of how bad they are, check out Jocelyn Benson the candidate they’ve chosen for Michigan. A little of her bio from wiki.....
During the 2004 Presidential election, Benson was hired to develop the first nationwide Election Protection program for the Democratic National Committee. Benson selected, recruited, and trained Voter Protection coordinators in 21 states. The program resulted in deployment of over 17,000 trained election law lawyers.[3]
After working with the Michigan Democratic Party’s election protection effort in 2006,[3] Benson developed and supervised two statewide nonpartisan election protection efforts in Michigan in 2007 and 2008.[1] She worked with Michigan Democratic Party’s election protection effort in 2006. During the 2008 election, she was called to testify before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee,[4] where she called on Secretary Terri Lynn Land to ban the use of foreclosure lists to challenge voters’ eligibility on Election Day.[5] She is a frequent commentator on voting rights and election law on local news and radio broadcasts.[3][6][7][8]
In 2007, Benson worked with several groups to successfully block the closure of a Secretary of State branch office in Buena Vista Township, Michigan. The U.S. Department of Justice concluded that the closure of the office would violate the Voting Rights Act.[9]
Benson is currently an Associate Law Professor at Wayne State University Law School, where she teaches Election Law. She is also an appointed member of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Election Law.[1] Being a member of the committee inspired her to create the Richard Austin Center on Election Law and Administration. The Austin Center, incorporated in October 2008, seeks to work with local election administrators to promote innovations and improve the election administration process in Michigan.[2]
Prior to her appointment as a Professor, Benson served as a law clerk to the Honorable Damon J. Keith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. From 2002-2004, she served as the Voting Rights Policy Coordinator of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, a non-profit organization that sought to link academic research to civil rights advocacy efforts,[1] where she worked on the passage of the federal Help America Vote Act.[3]
In March 2010, Benson published her first book, State Secretaries of State: Guardians of the Democratic Process. The book highlights best practices of Secretaries from throughout the country and seeks to inform voters about how Secretaries of State from either side of the political spectrum can work to advance democracy and election reform.[3]
In Michigan they have stopped using those old mechanical voting booth machines. From those I have talked to they are better than anything used today, accurate and hard copy produced.
Why? Because now it is easier to cheat without them, probably.
Soooo are we going to do something about it???
btt
Very good question. What exactly are we doing to stop election fraud? How about photo ID’s? Something you get a ticket for if you don’t have on your person in public?
At some point, good people are going to have to push back hard or our nations greatness will be lost and there will be misery across the land.
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