Posted on 10/14/2014 9:33:21 AM PDT by centurion316
We are now three weeks to Election Day, which means we are deep into another round of the voting wars—the ceaseless legislative, legal and regulatory battle over which Americans can vote, and when and where and with what paperwork they must do so. Here's a modest proposal: How about we finally call off the fight?
Forget it, you say. There is no way the Republican Party and conservative movement, which have invested so much time and effort in restricting the franchise to serve partisan ends, are going to give up now. But what if there are some good reasons why it might actually be in their interest to do so? Consider:
1. The voting wars are a costly, bureaucratic nightmare.
Conservatives claim to disdain bureaucratic waste and costly litigation—which is exactly what the voting wars have devolved into. Every few days, it seems, brings a new court ruling on a state’s voting laws, often reversing another ruling of just a few days or weeks prior. This back and forth is not just hard to keep track of—it is also causing no end of bureaucratic disarray, which comes at a price to the taxpayer. -SNIP-
2. The absence of voter fraud is becoming impossible to deny.
Liberals and civil libertarians have long argued that the threat of voter fraud cited to justify voter ID laws was wildly overstated, and that the only real effect of such laws would be to reduce voting by racial and ethnic minorities and young people who lacked the necessary identification. But there was just enough empirical haze around the laws, and their central claim was sufficiently intuitive ... for many neutral arbiters to go along with the laws, as did the Supreme Court with its 2008 ruling ... upholding the voter ID requirement in Indiana.
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(Excerpt) Read more at newrepublic.com ...
In this case, they are demanding unconditional surrender and supporting their demands with outrageous statements akin to Baghdad Bob's proclamation that their were no American tanks in the city. Everything in this article is a fabrication or exaggeration and we can be sure that they are very worried about what we are doing.
It's a sign of weakness and we need to pile on.
Aren’t liberals cute when they try to talk like grown ups?
Voting wars. Oh my gosh, this is so crucial. We’ve never had an election before. This is all so new...
Raspberry...
There’s nothing like a little friendly liberal “advice” to confirm that conservatives are on the right path.
Here’s a modest alternative proposal: Only individuals who can document that they’ve paid Federal income taxes for the previous five are allowed to cast a vote.
The Corpus Christi idiot latina judgette struck down TX VoterID last Thursday **18 months** after the suit was filed, 5 days before early voting to begin.
RATS lawfaring their way when other fraud mechanisms are exposed and stopped.
“Something we can’t look for doesn’t exist because we haven’t found it.”
I bet bank fraud wouldn’t exist if we didn’t require records of financial transactions either.
It's red alert time whenever a liberal author and a liberal publication post a story offering friendly advice to Republicans. Of course, they would never do any such thing, so it's clearly a ruse.
Did you read the comments (at the link)? Half of them say “hell no we won’t give up”......and the other half are spam ;’)
The voting wars are one side claiming that honest elections should take place and the other side saying that honesty doesn’t matter.
Because the authors of a notoriously hard-left publication have the best interests of the GOP at heart.
Nope... double down. Crush the leftist menace.
This is ridiculous. The author is simply a paid liar. And probably not paid very much.
We should allow widespread voter fraud. We should sit back silently and agree to let Democrats cheat whenever they want.
After all, it is for our good.
Never happen. It should, but it won't.
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Right! We should never be allowed to verify that the person standing in front of the table is indeed the person on the list!
Should’ve had a barf alert.
This should be posted in Humor.
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