John Fund: Voter-Fraud Rethink

The Wall Street Journal ^ | January 17, 2008 | John Fund

[chaos_5]

The Las Vegas Review Journal notes "some Strip workers will have no alternative but to provide photo identification." For a party that compares photo ID requirements to Jim Crow poll taxes, even when state governments distribute the IDs for free, the irony is rich.,,

ROFL

[chaos_5]

Every Republican I know is demanding the use of photo ID to vote.

It absolutely blows my mind that it takes more identification to rent a movie from blockbuster than it does to vote.

[Digger]

The whole process is a corrupt fraud. Vote to justify these corrupt winners - why?

[maica]

Even the lawyers who took the Indiana case before the Supreme Court were forced to say that only Democrat voters would be affected by the need for ID. Apparently Republicans do not have the same number of intimidated, feeble, poor or whatever reason the dems use potential voters.

I would be embarrassed to claim democrat affiliation just on the basis of the insulting nature of their argument.

[maica]

People worry about software corruption with the touchscreen machines, but the easiest way to cheat is for the election judges to “vote” for people still on the rolls. It took me two years to get my (deceased) father’s name removed in Baltimore city, which has practically a 10 to 1 dem to republican registration.

It is almost impossible to get Republican judges to work in MANY of the precincts. So unscrupulous judges can cast ballot after ballot if no other judges in the vicinity object.

[billmor]

This is amazing but not surprising: the tactics some in the Dem party would use to win an election..

With or without a national ID card the DemRATS will find a way around the rules...There is no end to their corruption.

[Brilliant]

It’s beyond dispute that Hillary did this purely to disenfranchise Obama’s base. She’s always been opposed to these kinds of voter restrictions on the very grounds that they disenfranchise voters, and now she does a complete reversal in order to cement her own victory.

[boop]

"Even the lawyers who took the Indiana case before the Supreme Court were forced to say that only Democrat voters would be affected by the need for ID."

I don't understand this. If everyone has to show ID, why does it only "affect" democrats?

[maica]

That is the question that the lawyers for the plaintiffs - the Indiana Democratic Party have to answer. They brought the case before the court.

http://www.vdare.com/misc/080108_gemma.htm

January 9, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Indiana Democratic Party v. Todd Rokita and William Crawford v. Marion County Election Board cases.

Here is an interesting factoid regarding the Indiana voter rolls:

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/07-21.pdf
p18:

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Well, so do the
voting rolls. I thought the district court found 41 —
MR. SMITH: No, no. The population —
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Mr. Smith.
MR. SMITH: So sorry.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: — 41.4 percent of
the people on the voting rolls in Indiana were either
dead or they were duplicate entries.

[Timeout]

All Republican candidates should add a line to their outreach voter calls (in approriate states):

“When you vote, you will need a proper photo ID.
Do you have one, is it current?”

If the respondent says yes, fine.

If the respondent says “Oh gracious no, I forgot to renew it”, the candidate offers assistance if it’s needed.

OR if the person says (as Dems would have it) “I’m old and frail and too stupid to get to the DMV and get an ID”, then the candidate puts them in touch with a campaign coordinator to get them a ride and help with getting ID.

Of course, we all know there will be few problems. Campaigns will not be flooded with Republicans needing assistance.

The point is: ASK WHY DEMS AREN’T DOING THE SAME THING.
They do massive registration drives, offer a ride to the polls, babysitting and driveway shoveling. WHY haven’t they included ID assistance in their reportedly vaunted outreach calls? (Answer: they want the ISSUE, not the solution.)

It would be a perfect way to show up the unseriousness of Dems on this issue.

[Timeout]

They [Clintons] tried to disenfranchise students in Iowa.

What's that about? I don't recall hearing anything about it.

[maica]

Great idea.
I am an election judge and can say that the vast majority of voters walk up to the sign-in tables with voter registration cards or wallets open to their driver’s license in their hands. When check-in judges say “we do not need to see your ID” many voters have very quizzical looks on their faces. I have worked in totally black, and mixed race precincts, all of them majority Democrat registrations.

(Ordinary) People WANT to prove that they are proper voters.