Posted on 03/08/2011 10:09:55 PM PST by Walter Scott Hudson
What would you say if I told you the locks on your doors were a waste of time and money? After all, if you're like most people, no one has ever unlawfully entered your home. In fact, there's little evidence that anyone has ever tried. So why do you waste time installing and utilizing those silly deadbolts?
If that argument sounds ludicrous, which it should, realize it is precisely the same argument being utilized by opponents of photo identification and other sensible election integrity measures being pursued by Republican controlled legislatures throughout the union. The Washington Post reported on the debate Monday. The article highlighted arguments akin to you should not lock your doors because no one has tried to get in.
For all the allegations of voter fraud, Democrats and voting rights groups say, there is scant evidence to show that it is a problem(...)Chapin's observation accepts as valid the argument that evidence of voter fraud is necessary to justify measures to prevent it. Opponents of election integrity frequently begin with that argument, stating that efforts to secure the vote are a solution looking for a problem. However, the same could be said of any security measure..."Election policy debates like photo ID and same-day registration have become so fierce around the country because they are founded more on passionate belief than proven fact," said Doug Chapin, an election-law expert at the Pew Center on the States. "One side is convinced fraud is rampant; the other believes that disenfranchisement is widespread. Neither can point to much in the way of evidence to support their position, so they simply turn up the volume.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsrealblog.com ...
The fraud *is* rampant, and the claims of disenfranchisement are nothing more than transparent attempts to disguise the practices designed to enable fraud as concern about the poor and/or minorities.
here’s a group that has a program to stop vote fraud: http://www.truethevote.org
What? You just said fraud is great.
I didn’t.
I merely pointed out the motives of those promoting it. True, my sentence *was* rather convoluted...
1) A means to absolutely verify the legal citizenship of every person wanting to vote.
2) A way to be absolutely sure that each voter votes only once, nationwide, even in spite of collusion with local polling officials or major city, county or seven state election machines (the concerted effort by Democrat machine to take over those who oversee the counting -- State level Secretaries of State).
3) No voter intimidation or coercion or even campaigning to near polling locations. Voter intimidation such as the Black Panthers did would be a minimum prison sentence of several years and maybe the death penalty if egregious enough.
4) Absolutely no release of election results whether county by county or state by state until ALL the votes are counted and multiply verfied by multiple independent observers. No exit polls.
5) Two weeks to do elections. Give everybody a chance to vote, whether they work nights or days or weekends, or are deployed overseas. With number 4 above, this could work.
6) All ballots in English, and a requirement for minimum knowledge of at least US history, civics, and economics. If someone can't pass even the basic US Citizenship Test in English they must not be allowed to even register to vote. (And that test needs to be made more rigorous).
I do not have good ideas how to do the above without an intrusive national registry of all voters AND an instant nationwide verification of those who voted so that no person can vote multiple times in multiple counties or states.
“The minimum changes to our election system must be, IMO: “
You should have to register 30 days prior to an election. If you can’t do that tuff. Everyone has a right to vote but with that comes responsibility.
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