Posted on 04/28/2015 3:52:05 PM PDT by Kaslin
On a host of electoral integrity issues, the liberal position can be summarized in two words: enable cheating. You think that’s too harsh?
How else can you explain the race-baiting rhetoric from President Obama on down against something as commonsense as voter photo ID laws, which the public supports by wide margins? Or the intense drive for Election Day registration, mail-in voting and earlier and earlier balloting, all of which make it harder to detect and prevent vote fraud? Or the opposition to any law ensuring that only citizens can vote?
A case in point of the latter is the Obama Administration’s stiff-arming of two states that want to require proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote. Kansas and Arizona, which already require proof of citizenship on state election forms, asked the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to include a requirement for proof of citizenship on the federal form.
Backed by the Obama Justice Department, the EAC declined. The two states sued, won in U.S. District Court, but saw the verdict overturned in the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Now, the case is heading for the U.S. Supreme Court.
In a brief submitted this past week asking the Court to take the case, the American Civil Rights Union provided key evidence – federal voter registration forms – exposing the shocking ease with which non-citizens can register to vote without any proof of citizenship.
Of the 13 forms gathered from Harris County, Texas, by the voter integrity group True the Vote, “Four of the individuals actually checked ‘no’ on the citizenship question, six checked ‘no’ and ‘yes’, and the remaining three left the checkbox blank entirely.” Nevertheless, they were all registered to vote. What’s wrong with this picture?
The brief notes that the Constitution “grants the States the power to control who may vote in federal elections…. “[t]he EAC’s determination … constitutes a usurpation of a power guaranteed to the States by the Constitution of the United States.”
If this were happening in normal times, it might not be so alarming. However, President Obama is literally trying to replace the current electorate, which annoys him, with millions of new voters who can be bribed with federal welfare.
The White House Task Force on New Americans held a briefing last week at the George Soros-backed Migration Policy Institute to push its new “Strategic Action Plan on Immigrant & Refugee Integration,” according to the Daily Caller.
The Task Force is chaired by White House Domestic Policy Adviser Cecilia Munoz, former vice president of the radical racialist National Council for La Raza (“the Race”).
With tens of thousands of illegal aliens, many of them children, still pouring over the Texas border, the Obama Administration recently assigned Social Security numbers to more than 500,000 illegals who qualified for Mr. Obama’s unilateral “Dreamer” amnesty in 2012. This does not go unnoticed in Mexico and Central America, where millions of nationals would like to enter the United States legally or illegally.
How would you like to be an election official in Texas or Arizona, faced with hundreds of thousands of possible new voters who are not citizens but who hold Social Security cards – a prime ID for registering to vote?
Another way the Left is gaming elections is to use government power to silence conservatives during election cycles. The most glaring example is the Internal Revenue Service’s criminal harassment of Tea Parties and other conservative groups before the 2012 election, for which nobody has been held accountable – not even former IRS nonprofit official Lois “I’ll take the Fifth” Lerner. She has retired with a full pension.
In Wisconsin, left-wing prosecutors have been waging a war on conservative groups whose views align with those of Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who survived a union-led recall election in 2012 and then was re-elected in 2014. As the Wall Street Journal noted, several prosecutors “blanketed conservatives with subpoenas, raided their homes and put the targets under a gag order” so they couldn’t even alert the public to the jackboot tactics. Meanwhile, the prosecutors leaked one-sided details to the press while their victims could not respond. This is the Left’s idea of securing fair elections.
Eric O’Keefe, director of the Wisconsin Club for Growth, filed a civil rights lawsuit against Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm and other prosecutors, and in May 2014, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa agreed that the law enforcers had overreached by seeking criminal charges against the groups “for exercising issue advocacy speech rights that on their face are not subject to the regulations or statutes the defendants seek to enforce.”
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the case, and the Club for Growth’s appeal was to be heard Friday (April 24) by the U.S. Supreme Court. If they follow the logic of their 2010 Citizens United ruling allowing corporations and unions the freedom to donate to campaigns, the justices should side with the Wisconsin groups being persecuted for their views.
Each of the attacks on electoral integrity in isolation would be disturbing. As a whole, they send the unmistakable message that the Left will do anything – anything – to cheat and prevent another populist uprising like the national elections in 2010 and 2014.
Cheating is the essence of progressivism. It just is.
The cannot win elections without fraud
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I think they are getting desperate. I think the cheating margins in 2008 were small and in 2012 even smaller. They know how much they actually lost by and they can see the trends. In order to pull off fraud, they need something on a grand scale, like millions of new illegals voting D.
A few of the old cheating scams have been shut down. There are places that have discovered the unreliability (fraud) in electronic voting and have gone back to paper which means that instead of simply programming in the result they want, they have to go back to manufacturing votes one by one on paper.
I’ll tell you what: Republicans better get control of the voting process and stop illegal voting in every state!
You know, I know, Democrats know and Republicans SHOULD know that the Democrats are going to cheat in 2016!
They are going to register as many of those who are not eligible to vote as they can (illegal aliens, dead people, etc., etc.) and bus them to multiple polling sites to vote.
The integrity of the voting system is VERY suspect, and Republicans need to work overtime to ensure an honest vote in 2016!
HST, if the Republicans nominate a RINO milquetoast, and don’t excite the base and get them out to vote, it will not matter!
When the legal system condones lawlessness and becomes lawless themselves, what is left for the population to believe in? Corruption and tyranny abound.
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