Back in an earlier time I watched a “disadvantaged” neighborhood on election day. No buses picking up people, few people going to the polls, basically nothing going on. But then a HUGE turnout. I looked back at the voter roles from that area and found single-family houses with 14 ‘people’ registered and most having ‘voted’ in prior elections.
Pretty obvious what was going on, even then. The get-out-the-vote effort involved proxy voting for most of the people in those houses...people that never existed. This was done during quiet times, during early voting. That was why True-The-Vote people that were exercising their LEGAL RIGHT to monitor the voting were forcibly ejected from those precincts, and then got audited by the IRS. Most rank-and-file Democrats, even blacks, don’t know how this works, which is why they don’t have a problem with Voter ID. But the ones that do know the system have to fight it tooth-and-nail, because, for now, there’s no easy workaround, even if you only have your people ‘guarding’ the machines.
The Dems gambled and lost here. In Texas, at least, if there’s no ID, there’s no vote. There has to be an ID number entered for every vote. Obviously most of those 14 people in that house (i.e., non-existent people) don’t have an associated ID. It’s game over with that scheme.
They delayed as long as they could. They don’t even have enough time to organize a traditional (i.e., legal) get-out-the-vote effort. They’re screwed.
They were counting on this hack judge to make it impossible to have the ruling reversed before the election, and were hoping that Obama would have been able to pack the Supreme Court by now, just in case it did get overturned on appeal. Didn’t happen. We’ll soon get to see what a CLEAN ELECTION looks like here.
You mean like where people don’t line up alphabetically outside the polls to vote?
What are the particulars on the absentee PhotoID?
Is it wrong for me to pray for Ruth Ginsberg to not retire or to live and serve on the SC until after the 2016 election? When, hopefully, we’ll elect a conservative president who can fill that seat with a conservative judge?