Liberals Would Let Dogs Vote

HUMAN EVENTS ^ | Apr 04, 2006 | Terrence Scanlon

[neverdem]

How does a dog vote?

It's a question to ponder. Dogs do end up on voter lists from time to time -- one was registered in St. Louis in 2000 -- and I worry that today's polling places are not dog-friendly. Can a dog operate a touch screen election machine? Are owners permitted into the voting booth to help their pets?

Seriously. Nowadays dogs, the deceased, convicted felons, illegal immigrants and imaginary people are registered to vote. This shouldn't be. But to hear some liberal groups, any rules and restrictions on the franchise are intolerable.

One liberal group seems to think that everyone should get to register to vote no matter whether they're legally entitled to vote. The only disqualifying factor might be if the prospective voter doesn't support the group's radical agenda.

That group is ACORN, also known as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. As revealed by research from the Evergreen Freedom Foundation's Jonathan Bechtle, ACORN pays its employees by the number of voters they register. In Ohio in 2004, state election officials started to receive voter registration cards from ACORN that were filled out in identical handwriting for names with false addresses.

In Minnesota, police found hundreds of signed registration cards in the trunk of a worker who was suspected of registering voters twice to double his fees. In Colorado, a woman reportedly helped her boyfriend forge names on registration forms to help him make $50.

In 2004 another liberal group, America Coming Together (ACT), coordinated its activities with other groups to spend $200 million to defeat George W. Bush. In at least three states it hired workers, some of them felons convicted of violent offenses, to go door-to-door to register voters.

Today Americans all over the country -- many of them conservative, and even some liberals -- are working to pass sensible reforms to stop voter fraud. One of the most important reforms is requiring voters to show a photo identification to vote. But liberal groups denounce these reforms as "voter intimidation" and "suppression."

Nowhere is the problem more evident than in the state of Washington, where in 2004 Republican Dino Rossi won the governor's race by 261 votes. Then after a judicial recount, he won by 42 votes. Then, after a hand recount funded in part by George Soros, he lost by 133 votes to Democrat Christine Gregoire.

But the Washington race wasn't only close -- it was fishy. In King County, officials found they had 875 more absentee votes counted than the number of people who said they voted absentee. Even more surprisingly, at least 55,175 votes were "enhanced" in King County, which means that poll officials decided how voters meant to vote for governor, even in cases where the voter didn't pick a governor at all.

Throughout the state, 1,400 felons whose voting rights had not been restored were allowed to vote -- one by absentee ballot from the comfort of his prison cell. And in five counties, 8,500 more ballots were counted than there were voters credited with voting.

After the Democratic candidate won, you heard no complaints from the so-called Election Protection Coalition. It's made up of liberal groups -- such as People for the American Way, the AFL-CIO, the NAACP and Common Cause -- that usually object loudly to voting irregularities that work against liberal candidates.

But any American should object to any attempt to put left-wing party politics ahead of democracy. In Georgia, Indiana and Pennsylvania supporters of voting reform are supporting new laws to require that a citizen present a photo ID before voting. In Georgia the state legislature made sure that the identification cards are free of charge so the poor and elderly aren't excluded from voting. But that hasn't stopped hysterical voices on the left from comparing proof of identity to a vile, racist poll tax.

It’s time to pass real reforms to end voter fraud, and organizations including the American Center for Voting Rights and the Evergreen Freedom Foundation are working to promote workable policy solutions to improve our electoral process. Every illegal and fraudulent vote cancels out a legal vote. It disenfranchises genuine voters and hurts our democracy. That's what is truly intolerable.

Dogs are great. I just don't think they should be allowed to vote.

[Rick_Michael]

Personally, I sometimes think it would be better if only homeowners could vote.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Let's think about that for a moment. You do realized that this would mean that most of the military couldn't vote don't you?

[neverdem]

You can't make this crap up!

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[Brian Allen]

<< Liberals Would Let Dogs Vote >>

What a silly thing to say.

Liberals DO Let Dogs Vote.

[Brian Allen]

<< Personally, I sometimes think it would be better if only homeowners could vote. >>

Most certainly those who have no assets and/or have ever received and/or presently receive any kind of handout whatsoever from any government should be excluded from voting. [Themselves rewards from others wealth]

That would of course mean that most of our [Tarrifs-supported] manufacturers should and would be excluded.

As, to a man, would America's new welfare rich: the American "farmer."

[neverdem]

You can't make this crap up!

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[Lokibob]

My dog Crystal really resents the fact she can not vote.

I'm positive she would vote the straight conservative ticket, since, once, she ate the left wing off a dead bird.


She does, however, take handouts, mostly from me, not the Government.

She is a member of the working class, prewashing my dishes before they go into the dishwasher.

I asked her once how she felt about the way things were going today. She responded with "ROUGH".

When asked how high the price of dog food was going to be, the answer was "ROOF".

[Robert A Cook PE]

What a silly thing to say.

Liberals DO Let Dogs Vote.

Now, now. Lettuce not be trite.

If liberal DID let hard-working, loyal, enthusiastic DOGS vote, there would be many fewer dumb liberals elected.

Now, the proportion of self-absorbed, me-first, give me my handouts CAT voters is yet to be determined.

[okiecon]

Coservatives need to get serious about this issue. It could cost a house seat, a senate race, or even the presidency. Most Americans would agree that you should need to show ID to vote. Heck, I have you have to show ID to buy beer.

Liberals will got nuts, voter fraud becomes an issue, it would be a real expose.

Win, win for conservatives. Some brave senator needs to take this kind of stuff on.

[Las Vegas Dave]

I would let my *cat vote if he could, he is now a conservative. He was a democrat, for the first week of his life until he "opened his eyes"! (Tell my wife that frequently.) < /humor >

(*Note we are dog lovers too.)

[Hardastarboard]

Reminds me of the old Warner Bros. cartoon I saw once that showed a talking dog and his manager demonstrating his talent to a producer. The third question was "Who was the greatest baseball player of all time?" "Ruth".

The next scene showed them on their rears in the street, with the dog speculating "Maybe I should have said DiMaggio?"

Padda pum tsh!

[loboinok]

"Heck, I have you have to show ID to buy beer."

LOL... How many times did you have to show that ID today? ;)

[FreedomPoster]

Sometimes?

That's how it worked, when we were a new country. Only people with a real stake in the system, landowners, could vote.

I'd settle for positive net taxes paid.

[Savage Beast]

I think quite a few dogs have voted Democrat--along with the dear departed.

[Thom Pain]

Could dogs do any worse than Kennedy? McKinney?

[gakrak]

That's a tough one. I do however believe that only home owners should be allowed to vote on property taxes and school taxes. Amen.

[goldstategop]

My cat would be a better politician than the current lot.... there's no law against an animal being allowed to hold public office.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[chimera]

But the Washington race wasn't only close -- it was fishy.

Not just fishy, it was downright criminal. How many times did King Co. "just happen" to "find" so-called "lost" ballots that somehow "just happened" to have been overlooked in earlier tabulations? At least a half-dozen times, maybe ten or twelve separate times. Yet the lousy 'Rats have absolutely no problem with that (because the 'Rat "won"). And how wonderfully fortuitous and convenient it was that a rabid 'Rat activist "just happened to notice" that his name was one on a long list of other 'Rat voters who somehow were not "credited" with voting the first time around, and had to have their ballots "resurrected" (supposedly rejected "by mistake") in the initial tabulation. How wonderful that all was. And the illegitimate governor of "say WA" (that's their new state marketing slogan, believe it or not!) Fraudoire (Gregoire) has the nerve to say that their election was a "model of democracy". More like a model of how to cheat your way into office. The lousy, lying 'Rat scum...

[Fintan]

ACORN pays its employees by the number of voters they register.

 

I live next to a cemetery. Geez, I'm sittin' on a gold mine...