Guess we can expect more of this when we go to vote.
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I wonder if they EVER discuss the possibility of pushing it and the American people too far.
Posted on 06/04/2009 7:54:40 AM PDT by STARWISE
Never a dull moment with the Justice Department of Eric Holder, aka "the right man at the right time to protect our citizens in the critical years ahead."
In fact, it would be more accurate to say he's the right man at the right time to protect our non-citizens in the critical years ahead.
Unbelievably (or, perhaps, entirely too believably), Holder has told Georgia that it may no longer verify identification in order to ensure that voting is done only by citizens eligible to vote. The AP reports:
ATLANTA — The Justice Department has rejected Georgia's system of using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check whether prospective voters are citizens, a process that was a subject of a federal lawsuit in the weeks leading up to November's election.
In a letter released on Monday, the Justice Department said the state's voter verification program is frequently inaccurate and has a "discriminatory effect" on minority voters. The decision means Georgia must halt the citizenship checks, although the state can still ask the Justice Department to reconsider, according to the letter and to the Georgia secretary of state's office.
"This flawed system frequently subjects a disproportionate number of African-American, Asian and/or Hispanic voters to additional, and more importantly, erroneous burdens on the right to register to vote," Loretta King, acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's civil rights division, said. King's letter was sent to Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker on Friday.
Georgia is required to seek DOJ approval before implementing voting protocols because of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (see George Will here and Roger Clegg here). Quite apart from the fact that the VRA is an anachronism in modern America, is there not something perverse about cancelling out the votes of eligible citizens — the inevitable result of permitting ineligible citizens and non-citizens to vote, as DOJ is effectively forcing Georgia to do here — under the auspices of something called the "Voting Rights Act"?
Michelle Malkin notes that Georgia's secretary of state, Karen Handel, has blasted DOJ's move:
The decision by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to deny preclearance of Georgia’s already implemented citizenship verification process shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of our elections. With this decision, DOJ has now barred Georgia from continuing the citizenship verification program that DOJ lawyers helped to craft.
DOJ’s decision also nullifies the orders of two federal courts directing Georgia to implement the procedure for the 2008 general election. The decision comes seven months after Georgia requested an expedited review of the preclearance submission.
“DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations such as ACORN to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia’s elections, and the state has no ability to verify an applicant’s citizenship status or whether the individual even exists.
DOJ completely disregarded Georgia’s obvious and direct interest in preventing non-citizens from voting, instead siding with the ACLU and MALDEF. Clearly, politics took priority over common sense and good public policy.
Handel's letter demonstrates the absurdity of the claims by DOJ's Civil Rights Division of undue burdens simple verification — i.e., the process airport security personnel put you through if you want to get on an airplane and Amtrak randomly puts you through to get on a train — imposes on minority voters:
It is important to underscore that not a single person has come forward to say he or she could not vote because of the verification process. Further, while DOJ argues that the process is somehow discriminatory, the historic voter turnout among Hispanic and African-American voters in the 2008 general elections clearly says otherwise.
This outrage does not happen in a vacuum. It comes on the heels of the Civil Rights Division's astounding dismissal of the slam-dunk voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia (a case in which the Justice Department surrendered after it had already won), and Justice's blatant undermining of a federal law that commands states to purge their voter registration lists of ineligible voters (e.g., citizens who have died or moved out of state) in order to minimize opportunities for fraud.
(See Hans von Spakovsky's incisive work on these issues, here and here). At the same time the Justice Department is busy preserving the infrastructure of fraud, congressional Democrats are filling the overflowing coffers of the notorious voter-fraud practitioners at ACORN — longtime allies of President Obama.
Never a dull moment with the Justice Department of Eric Holder, aka "the right man at the right time to protect our citizens in the critical years ahead."
In fact, it would be more accurate to say he's the right man at the right time to protect our non-citizens in the critical years ahead. Unbelievably (or, perhaps, entirely too believably), Holder has told Georgia that it may no longer verify identification in order to ensure that voting is done only by citizens eligible to vote. The AP reports:
ATLANTA — The Justice Department has rejected Georgia's system of using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check whether prospective voters are citizens, a process that was a subject of a federal lawsuit in the weeks leading up to November's election.
In a letter released on Monday, the Justice Department said the state's voter verification program is frequently inaccurate and has a "discriminatory effect" on minority voters. The decision means Georgia must halt the citizenship checks, although the state can still ask the Justice Department to reconsider, according to the letter and to the Georgia secretary of state's office.
"This flawed system frequently subjects a disproportionate number of African-American, Asian and/or Hispanic voters to additional, and more importantly, erroneous burdens on the right to register to vote," Loretta King, acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's civil rights division, said. King's letter was sent to Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker on Friday.
Georgia is required to seek DOJ approval before implementing voting protocols because of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (see George Will here and Roger Clegg here). Quite apart from the fact that the VRA is an anachronism in modern America, is there not something perverse about cancelling out the votes of eligible citizens — the inevitable result of permitting ineligible citizens and non-citizens to vote, as DOJ is effectively forcing Georgia to do here — under the auspices of something called the "Voting Rights Act"?
Michelle Malkin notes that Georgia's secretary of state, Karen Handel, has blasted DOJ's move:
The decision by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to deny preclearance of Georgia’s already implemented citizenship verification process shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of our elections. With this decision, DOJ has now barred Georgia from continuing the citizenship verification program that DOJ lawyers helped to craft. DOJ’s decision also nullifies the orders of two federal courts directing Georgia to implement the procedure for the 2008 general election. The decision comes seven months after Georgia requested an expedited review of the preclearance submission.
“DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations such as ACORN to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia’s elections, and the state has no ability to verify an applicant’s citizenship status or whether the individual even exists. DOJ completely disregarded Georgia’s obvious and direct interest in preventing non-citizens from voting, instead siding with the ACLU and MALDEF. Clearly, politics took priority over common sense and good public policy.
Handel's letter demonstrates the absurdity of the claims by DOJ's Civil Rights Division of undue burdens simple verification — i.e., the process airport security personnel put you through if you want to get on an airplane and Amtrak randomly puts you through to get on a train — imposes on minority voters:
It is important to underscore that not a single person has come forward to say he or she could not vote because of the verification process. Further, while DOJ argues that the process is somehow discriminatory, the historic voter turnout among Hispanic and African-American voters in the 2008 general elections clearly says otherwise.
This outrage does not happen in a vacuum. It comes on the heels of the Civil Rights Division's astounding dismissal of the slam-dunk voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia (a case in which the Justice Department surrendered after it had already won), and Justice's blatant undermining of a federal law that commands states to purge their voter registration lists of ineligible voters (e.g., citizens who have died or moved out of state) in order to minimize opportunities for fraud. (See Hans von Spakovsky's incisive work on these issues, here and here).
At the same time the Justice Department is busy preserving the infrastructure of fraud, congressional Democrats are filling the overflowing coffers of the notorious voter-fraud practitioners at ACORN — longtime allies of President Obama.
No need to wait another 18 months: We are losing the 2010 election right now.
Guess we can expect more of this when we go to vote.
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I wonder if they EVER discuss the possibility of pushing it and the American people too far.
ACORN & DOJ = ObamUthopia
Used to be ‘America’
Meanwhile, those Republicans not praising Obama where seen cowering under their blankets.
I’m curious if thugs start hanging out at a voting establishment...and folks get shot...would the DOJ care? Instead of poll watchers...we might eventually poll deputies...to protect the rights of those who want to vote.
It is sad commentary for our republic...when not only does a citizen from El Salvador has the same right to vote as you...but then you need some kind of new right to live freely and survive while voting.
Georgia needs to copy Indiana election laws to the letter then and pass it, they already made it through the SC and we have to show a picture ID or we can’t vote.
bingo....barney frank is not the only one in DC who grabs his ankles- many of these pathetic, cowardly Republicans have done the same thing five years running to the rats....
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I wonder if the fact that thousands or more non-citizens are affecting our elections due to this policy outweighs the burden placed by having to have some form of ID.
Bush included. I'm sure I'll next hear from the apologists crying "He tried, but the media wouldn't let him."
Funny, but the Cheneys seem to know how to cut through the media. It takes courage and a willingness to go toe-to-toe with the commies.
‘a citizen from El Salvador’
I have no problem with an American citizen who comes from El Salvador voting, I have a big problem when a citizen OF El Salvador votes in an American election
If any of 0bama’s thugs gets shot at the polling place they are “providing security for”,
you can guarantee that the person who does it will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and beyond, even if he was acting in self defense.
One approach might be to get a group of black voters to complain that the absence of checks on citizenship are diluting their votes. The illegals are largely Hispanic and when they vote in our elections, they reduce the impact of the votes of legitimate black voters. This approach makes it a civil rights issue.
If the administration ignores this I might suggest a civil rights march to protest the denigration of the votes of black people. Start at, oh, Selma, Alabama and march to, say, Montgomery, Alabama. See if Eric Holder sets the dogs and firehoses on the march participants.
Old Flag
New Flag
Every state needs Indianas voting laws.
They tried to pass ID check in Virginia and the media informed us that black people don’t have ID’s.
That’s what they said.
The states need to enforce their voter ID laws,
and arrest any fed that comes in to thwart the enforcement of these laws.
There is only one reason to not want voter ID cards and we all know what it is.
FRAUD. end of story.
Does one need a Social Security numbers or driver’s license data to collect food stamps ,a welfare check or housing voucher??
Just Curious
I’ve stated that to a leftist,
and instead of answering it,
they stated
“the only reason to require ID is to keep minorities from voting”.
Any followups like “minorities can’t get ID?” were ignored.
Lefties are stuck on stupid and they think everyone should be as dumb as they are.
I’ve read a lot of your posts and I think you are a solid American. Keep it up!
Semper Fi
I’m pretty sure .. some kind of legal photo id.
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