Resurrecting Jim Crow for Political Gain ~ John Fund

Opinion Journal ^ | August 22, 2005 | John Fund

[Elle Bee]

Voter fraud is also a threat to minority voters.

Monday, August 22, 2005 12:01 a.m.

The Voting Rights Act, whose 40th anniversary we celebrate this month, has helped minorities elect 81 sitting members of Congress and thousands of local officials. But the rally civil rights groups held in Atlanta earlier this month to push for extension of the act's key temporary provisions downplayed those gains and instead pushed wild claims that some state laws requiring an ID to vote are the functional equivalent of Jim Crow poll taxes.

[Elle Bee]

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[Jaysun]

Juan Williams, a National Public Radio correspondent and author of "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years," is "stunned" by such vituperation. He told Fox News that it is "reacting to devils that have been slain 40 years ago." He says that "in service to having no fraud elections, I think you could say to people, go and get a legitimate ID. I don't think that's too much to ask."

Whadda ya know, Juan had a temporary lapse of insanity. Of course the Democrats are against ID cards, they make it harder for them to cheat. Valid ID should be required to vote. If we can't get it done in DC we need to push for referendums (especially in NY, CA, and FL).

[Elle Bee]

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[GoBucks2002]

On Election Day, a Marion, Ohio, judge enjoined Democrats from calling GOP voters and giving them incorrect polling locations while claiming they had to bring four separate forms of ID to vote. Cathy Chaffin, the county Democratic chair, has signed an affidavit on the incident that reads like a plea from a hostage. In late October, she learned that Kerry workers who had taken over her office space were making the calls and ordered them to stop. Days later she learned the calls were still being made and repeated her command. On the morning of Election Day she learned "the activity had not in fact stopped" and told Kerry staffer Jim Secreto "he could not operate out of the headquarters if he continued to violate my directive."

Funny, the MSM never mentioned *this.*

Also, one of the few documented, videotaped cases of sign vandalism involved a Board of Elections employee somewhere in Ohio stealing a Bush sign and then setting fire to it. He got to keep his job because he is a Dem. Dems always protect their own. Republicans are too chickensh*t to apply the laws to Democrats.