For followers of this blog, you know that we are four-square in favor of the requirement that a voter present an ID prior to voting. It is only common sense that anyone who wants to vote should prove who they are and that they are eligible to vote in the precinct. We do it here in Michigan and there have not been any concerns that someone who was not who they said they were.
Texas is being fought by the Obama Administration (another attack on the 10th amendment) to invalidate their law which requires an ID before voting. In the following article Bobby Eberle clearly explains how common sense is not used when it comes to this subject. We especially like the double negatives the Administration is using to fight the law. Ya gotta be a Philadelphia lawyer to understand what they are trying to do which means they are being slick!
Conservative Tom
Voter ID Law: Obama Throws Common Sense out the Window
Barack Obama and his team have done it again. Whenever faced with choosing common sense, they decide they would rather go left-wing radical on the American people. In this case, Obama's Justice Department has attacked Texas' voter identification law, saying that Texas has not proven that the law is not discriminatory. Give me a break! Is it too much to ask that someone be able to prove his or her identity before voting?This kind of nonsense just drives me crazy. In America, the vote is sacred. It's how our entire system of government runs. Americans vote for the direction they want the country to go, whether through elections of officials, ballot initiatives, or other propositions. In order for the country to run properly, the vote must be respected and must be a pure process.
We read all the time about voter fraud. ACORN, Obama's puppet agency, registered thousands of bogus people, and the list goes on and on. It makes perfect sense that if the vote is such an important part of American society, that being able to vote should and being able to prove you are who you say your are go hand in hand. Apparently, that's not what Obama believes.
According to a report by Fox News, the "Justice Department is objecting to a new photo ID law in Texas for voters, saying the state has failed to demonstrate that the the law is not discriminatory by design against Hispanic voters."
The department's head of the civil rights division, Tom Perez, wrote a a six-page letter to Texas' director of elections saying that Texas has not "sustained its burden" under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act to show that the new law will not have a discriminatory effect on minority voters. About 11 percent of Hispanic voters reportedly lack state-issued identification.Perez wrote that while the state says the new photo ID requirement is to "ensure electoral integrity and deter ineligible voters from voting" the state "did not include evidence of significant in-person voter impersonation not already addressed by the state's existing laws."Perez added that the number of people lacking any personal ID or driver's license issued by the state ranges from from 603,892 to 795,955, but of that span, 29-38 percent of them are Hispanic.
In the Associated Press story on GOPUSA, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said "the Obama administration is hostile to laws like the one passed last year in Texas."
Hostile? I'd say that's an understatement. This is a common sense law designed to protect the integrity of the ballot box. Is that so hard to understand? Can someone please beat this guy in November while we still have the right to vote? Who knows what will happen if he gets reelected.
Amendment XV Constitution, Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
ReplyDeleteThat works both ways..
Anyway, with most States you go down to vote for the area you're registered to vote in. Everyone has to register to vote, then those people show up in that area, some areas confirm with a voter id card - and always a name on the list, which gets scratched off the list, and then go vote.
That has worked and continues to work. Why change what isn't broken? And if it is broken, why not enforce the laws already on the books, rather than make new laws?
Fake people registering to vote does not equal more votes nor is it a crime, that's been proven many times over, in every local election.... It's not illegal to register a dog to vote, however it is a federal crime to vote illegally.
All States should honor the Constitution and stop trying to change the voting regs, when they aren't broken.
It is a fraud to register a dog to vote as the two following stories from New Mexico show. Additionally, no one is required to vote, to register to vote or to have anything to do with the election process. It is entirely voluntary. That is why we in this country have such a poor turnout on election day.
ReplyDeleteVoting is a privilege that must be taken seriously and if people are not interested, so be it. Those of us who are interested in the outcome will carry on.
However, I see nothing wrong with having someone prove who they say they are and that they still live at the address on the election rolls. Otherwise, I would move from location to location, never changing my voting precinct and then vote many times. Is that fair or right?
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/republican_commits_voter_fraud_by_registering_dog_as_a_democrat.php
http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/Dog-Registered-to-Vote-141131093.html
There certainly is something broken in our voting system. Remember all the voter fraud issues in 2008? How in the world could we ever deny voting to any ethnic group? We'd have to beat them off with billy clubs and that would make the news and people would go to jail, wouldn't they? Oh, right. That is okay!!
ReplyDeleteMadMadder, You must have missed the 2008 election!
ReplyDeleteTom, registering a dog to vote is not voter fraud. Micky mouse has been registered to vote every year for like 50+ years. However, the dog and Micky mouse, don't actually vote.....
ReplyDeleteIf you move, and you vote twice, that's voter fraud. That could even happen with an ID, very easily. If a person said they lost an id, got a new one - with the wrong address, they could do the same thing, with both id's.
Voter fraud is a fake issue, that only started in 08, after Obama was elected... it will be a non-issue once he is out of office.
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To Anonymous and Anonymous.... No voter fraud was found in 2008. ACRON was cleared of everything.
At that, registering people to vote, is not fraud and does not mean more votes.