Posted on 04/04/2006 1:04:27 AM PDT by 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.
Liberals are counting on being allowed in the voting booth with their dogs, because even liberals are smart enough to know dogs allowed a choice arn't dumb enough to vote for democrats.
You might have trouble with the minimum age requirements, though. Besides, dog lovers would never vote for a cat, even though cats are clearly superior.
Hell, in this state, having dogs vote would be a dramatic improvement over the dead of Milwaukee. As witnessed by the continued success of our fine Senator Russ Findsgold.
My Canine-Americans are staunch conservatives.
Obviously a Baptist. He first types "I have to show ID when I buy beer.....then realized....Oops....I can't admit to buying beer.....I better type 'you have to ...'"
Thats what the Dims get for offering derelicts a fee for every voter card they filled out. They should have seen that coming a mile away.
There were also derelicts in Ohio paid in crack for registering "voters"...
Some people deserve the results of their own stupidity.
Ohio just passed voter id a few months ago. It will hard for dead people and dogs to vote anymore...Dim voters will fall off the face of the earth.
This reminds me that, besides all the leftist fiscal agenda by this admin, there has been no crackdown on all the illegal votes in the 2000 and 2004 elections, and there has been no push to reform the process to stop all the fraud that occurs on election day by the RATs.
Just one ore example of impotent Republicans.
You ever read Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers?
Watching the movie or playing the video game doesn't count; can you READ, citizen?
These are the same folks with the bright idea of repopulating Katrina-devestatred New Orleans with a hundred thousand *undocumented immigrants* that sent New Orleans Mayor Nagin off on his * keep our city chocolate* rant. Among other things, they're giving illegals jobs as *relief workers* in the Katrina-damaged areas, thereby qualifying them for favourable low-interest loans even without Social Security numbers, since they have Employee ID numbers.
Well, I can believe your photo.
IIRC, it's against the law for poll-workers to ask for identification
(drivers license) from a voter in California.
Maybe once again Ohio will save the U.S.A.
What do you think othertimes?
"What do you think othertimes?"
Good question...a personal idea similiar to this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy
*My noted differences with the initial idea (above) are a matter of practical usage of it in political perspective, with an open and non-partisan stance. Lets just say I want to see a more active and open debate.
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