Posted on 10/07/2014 5:01:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin has had his political obituary penned and published so many times that Badger State civil courts are probably flooded with copyright infringement lawsuits, yet he stubbornly remains in office. 2014 may wind up being his Waterloo if liberal union enthusiasts have their way – and a delicious win it would be for them indeed – but the Left side punditry is preparing for the worst and seem to have identified where to affix the blame. Obviously, it must be those racist voter ID laws.
On September 12, Wisconsin voting-rights groups began to scramble when the Seventh Circuit Court upheld the state’s voter ID law, one of the strictest in the country. By the end of September, the same court had narrowly declined to re-hear the case en banc—giving voters and election officials mere weeks before the state’s upcoming gubernatorial election to grapple with the law. Unless the Supreme Court overturns the decision in response to an emergency appeal filed Thursday by the ACLU, Wisconsin voters will have to show identification from a list of approved types at the November election. It’s hard to say how many people might be disenfranchised by the law, but in such a tight election, where Republican incumbent Scott Walker is neck-and-neck with Democrat Mary Burke, it doesn’t take many votes to swing the results.
Ed wrote about the current status of the voter ID law earlier today, and that’s information which the author of the above article might want to look into. Given how much national attention is paid to each and every move that Scott Walker makes, it’s interesting that anyone would blame this on regulations regarding voter identification. In 2010, Walker won his first term in office with more than 52% of the vote. In June of 2012, following one of the most expensive debacles in American electoral history, Walker was dragged back to stand before the wheel a second time, defeating the same Democrat opponent and expanding his vote total to 53.1%.
In 2011, the law which nearly all of the legislative representatives had to run on or against – limiting the collective bargaining power of public unions – was signed into law and survived multiple court challenges. In the summer of the same year, multiple state senators faced recall elections as liberals attempted to gain a do-over on the previous outcomes. They failed.
All of these electoral follies had one thing in common. Each and every one of them took place long before the state’s fiercely contested voter identification law was in place. In fact, it was still up in the air as to whether or not it would be in place as recently as Monday. So, in the unthinkable event that Walker wins yet another vote of confidence among the citizens, placing a stamp of approval yet again on all of his “controversial” policies, how is this the fault of voter ID?
But I will grant the opponents one table scrap on this question… if Walker wins by more than 55%, I’ll let them pin 2% of it on so called voter suppression.
I could not care less. I am just glad that Scott Walker keeps beating the Libs up to the point where they are in despair. Hopefully that prosecutor’s union hack wife will go into a deep depression and cry uncontrollably again over this.
So... without disenfranchising voters, liberals cannot win elections?
I think I knew that already.
Why not fingerprinting like they do in Iraq?
What is to keep them from producing phony IDs?
I don’t think these poll watchers would be able to tell the difference between a fake and a real ID.
GOP winners should insist on a recount. Find out who the cheaters are.
This will give people a chance to see just how wrong the count has been in the past due to Vote Fraud. But maybe not because actual people voting is far from the only vote fraud methods that they use.
If voter ID was implemented in all 50 states, the rats Luke never win another national election.
And they know it.
Unless the Supreme Court overturns the decision in response to an emergency appeal filed Thursday by the ACLU, Wisconsin voters will have to show identification
It stopped voter FRAUD!
It takes too much time and money to forge ID cards for multiple precinct and name voting!
We need to start Inking Fingers! NOW!
Minorities and the poor are much more intelligent here in Indiana...we have voter I.D. laws here and you need a photo I.D. to vote.....all of our poor AND minorities are smart enough to have a FREE state I.D. card.I’m from Wisconsin and I know that most people there are smart enough to tell the union thugs to go to H*** and vote for their great governor.
“What’s the racial makeup in WI?”
Communist.
Take the margin that Democrats attribute to “voter ID” and double that number under the assumption that ID only cuts voter fraud by a half and you get a good working number how much vote fraud the democrats have been able to generate in the last few elections.
Dear Blacks and Hispanics, the Democrat Party thinks you are STUPID!!! They are trying to convince us...... And you VOTE for the people that thinks you are STUPID!!
“What’s the racial makeup in WI?”
Communist.
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I thought that was MN, MA, CN and various other States that choose to ignore the US Constitution.
It worked for the progressives in junior high school and it just might work for progressives who are still in junior high school in their minds.
IMHO
It is true that if non-citizens, the dead and cartoon characters are not allowed to vote [and vote often], many Democrats would not win close elections — which is the real reason why the Party of Jim Crow opposes VoterID.
I think it was Jesse Jackson that said that voter ID would reduce the vote for democRats by 7 to 15 percent.
And why should such stupid people be allowed to vote for people who will determine the laws governing the rest of us?
““What’s the racial makeup in WI?”
Communist.
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I thought that was MN, MA, CN and various other States that choose to ignore the US Constitution.”
Sorry, I didn’t mean to exclude any of those. 8>))
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