Posted on 12/04/2007 7:55:17 AM PST by vietvet67
In what may be the most important voting case since Bush v. Gore, the U.S. Supreme Court in January will hear a challenge to Indiana’s 2006 law requiring a voter ID to vote. If the court rules against the law, 22 state voter ID laws that were designed to prevent voter fraud could be eliminated.
Democrats and so-called voting rights groups such as ACORN, the ACLU and the League of Women Voters (all of whom are challenging the law) claim there has been little actual voter fraud, few federal prosecutions and convictions, and that the purpose of the Indiana law is to prevent minorities and the poor from voting.
This argumentation and legal challenge are being made despite numerous cases of voter fraud that have been reported by the media over the last 10 years. Adding fuel to this fire recently were stunning statements by two prominent political activists -- a Democrat and a Republican -- on opposite sides of the continent that show that voter fraud in the United States is very real.
The Albuquerque Tribune reported in January 2007 that the newly elected New Mexico elections director and former general counsel for the state Democratic Party, Daniel Ivey-Soto, frankly told county elections officials that voter fraud exists in that key swing state. “I have been in conversations with people who have told me that, at various times, they’ve voted more than once on Election Day.…It happens.” Asked by the clerks how he could guarantee that same-day voter registration laws would not cause more voter fraud, Ivey-Soto replied, “I can’t ... but I can’t guarantee there isn’t fraud going on now.…I know people who have gone on Election Day and voted multiple times because they knew people who weren’t going to vote.
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Let me get this straight. In all other Western democracies, like, say, Switzerland, where you must show your ID when you go to vote, the poor are being disenfranchised?
If that is so, is it wrong to ask the poor to show ID when they use a credit card? Is it wrong to ask them to punch in a 4-digit code when they use a debit card??
Do poor people have a harder time getting an ID card out of a purse or wallet?
In Indiana, we had the first complete Election with the Voter ID Requirement this year.
RESULT:
Democrats LOST a couple of key seats in former Democrat “Strongholds”, most notably the Mayor of Indianapolis...
And not by a small margin, either.
While the local furor over massive property tax increases played a big part, the inner-city “Turnout” was the smallest in years, on a decent weather day.
Imagine that...
Sergio Mendez.
I agree.
Also, the last time I went to vote (local election), the kindly sweet older lady behind the desk heard my name and my street, and showed me where to sign: next to someone with a SIMILAR name.
Why isn’t voting as important as buying a pack of gum at 7-11 with a credit card?
That would seriously thin the Detroit population...lol
New Orleans and Louisiana is becoming an example of what happens when you clean out some of the Democrat Strongholds, and “Start Over”.
Total Votes cast in New Orleans are down 40% from Before Katrina, and the difference means that a REPUBLICAN is now Governor of Louisiana, even though Democrats won in New Orleans itself.
The population of Detroit is already seriously thin, and keeps thinning itself more every night....
So what happened in The Region? Did the machine issue tamperproof Ghost Voter ID?
“That’s pretty rich! ACORN was found GUILTY of voter fraud in Washington State during our last election.”
That wouldn’t be King County would it? I heard there were more votes cast than there were registered voters.
Without Detroit Michigan would be dark red.
ACORN has done more to destroy the integrity of the American voting system than anyone including the ACLU. ACORN does it on purpose so that DemonRATS can win. Why? Because they KNOW that Americans HATE the RATS, and they would NEVER win elections without fraud!
Great points...as I recall, Cincinnati and Cleveland were almost as bad in the last election, but Philadelphia was laughable to anyone with even a passing ability in statistics.
“Wright Talley.” Clever handle.
That was it. Although the local papers passed it off as NOT voter fraud. Instead, they painted it as some people creating false registrations so they could get paid more as they were paid by the name signed up.
BS!
finally, a voter fraud article that’s not by John Fund (of the WSJ)!
P1ss on the left.
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