Voter ID laws: Everyone has an ID, right? Nope

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http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/...ete_idiot.html


Republicans don't know precisely how much voter fraud actually occurs -- but then, neither does anyone else. However, voter fraud occurs more frequently than progressives would have us believe, as was ably demonstrated by Hans A. von Spakovsky in an August National Review article:



"The claim that there is no voter fraud in the U.S. is patently ridiculous, given our rich and unfortunate history of it. As the U.S. Supreme Court said when it upheld Indiana's photo-ID law in 2008, "Flagrant examples of such fraud . . . have been documented throughout this Nation's history by respected historians and journalists." The liberal groups that fought Indiana's law didn't have much luck with liberal justice John Paul Stevens, who wrote the 6-3 decision. Before being named to the Supreme Court, Justice Stevens practiced law in Chicago, a hotbed of electoral malfeasance."




Requiring photo IDs to vote is better than nothing and may help at the margins, but it isn't going to stop voter fraud. Would poll workers have photos of all registrants on hand to match against the photos presented by voters? (A better solution lies elsewhere.)

The left-wing quotes above don't even rise to the level of speculation; they're part of a deliberate concerted effort to deceive -- a propaganda campaign. Alleging that voter fraud doesn't exist is a straw man designed to divert attention away from other more pressing election problems. Alleging that an undetectable fraud doesn't exist draws attention away from the frauds that can be detected, but aren't. Alleging that voter fraud doesn't exist whitewashes America's voter registration mess.

Progressives allege that new voter ID requirements are meant to suppress turnout, especially of "the wrong kind of people," as the Doonesbury cartoon puts it. But the progressives' resistance to even the most basic safeguards is an attempt to keep elections open to theft. Progressives don't care about the integrity of elections; they just want to win, by whatever means necessary.

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Milwaukee-Journal Sentinal today
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/1...rt=newestfirst

The latest study linking support for voter ID laws to their feelings toward African-Americans is not surprising.
By James Causey of the Journal Sentinel
July 23, 2012 11:02 a.m

In the study by the University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication, respondents were asked several questions, and their answers were used to create a spectrum of "racial resentment."

The more resentment people had toward blacks, the more likely they were to support voter ID laws.

So basically, the study suggests that if you really dislike blacks, you really support voter ID laws.



That's interesting, because at the core of voter ID laws is race. There is little voter fraud. Last week, a second judge declared Wisconsin's voter ID law unconstitutional, almost guaranteeing that the ID requirement will not be in place for elections this fall.

Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan wrote that the state's requirement that all voters show photo ID at the polls creates a "substantial impairment of the right to vote" guaranteed by the state constitution.

In March, he issued an injunction temporarily blocking the law because the plaintiffs - the Milwaukee branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the immigrant rights group Voces de la Frontera - were likely to succeed in their arguments.

Flanagan made that injunction permanent in the 20-page decision he issued Tuesday because he found the impact of the law hit disproportionately hard on the elderly, indigent and minorities.

The judge made the right decision based on the fact that 220,000 people, according to state estimates, don't have the proper ID to vote.

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Originally Posted by Danzig

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/...ete_idiot.html

[b]Republicans don't know precisely how much voter fraud actually occurs -- but then, neither does anyone else.

Nope. False. There have been several studies on the incidence of voter fraud, and the numbers are clear. And very, very small. Mostly felons voting that should not. And nothing that would be solved by a photo ID requirement.

But the false equivalence of "both sides are wrong" is laughably cute as an editorial debate tactic, especially as the author has to resort to it right up front.

"Buy the premise, buy the bit" is the way to convert the gullible.