Ace @ Ace of Spades HQ:
In this election and the past couple, we’ve seen Democrats argue cynically that we mustn’t take even the most ordinary measures to make sure that voters are legal voters, because of contrived claims that the simple act of asking for ID is something akin to a lynching.
We are forever told that the “most vulnerable” people in our society — a rather racist implication by the left; they tend to mean minorities — simply cannot procure photo ID. Even though every state offers just such an ID for like $10. It’s called either a county card or ABC card (Alcohol Bureau of Control). The point of it is so that people who don’t have drivers license can prove who they are with a photo ID. Like, if they still want to buy alcohol.
It is true that such steps “burden” people by asking them to perform one bureaucratic step.
It is, however, true that without such steps, voting is on the honor system.
And political operatives, union stooges, and others do not have honor.
It’s come to this: Those who are simply attempting to have non-eligible voters struck from the rolls — so that they can’t commit fraud — are being attacked as racists.
The tea party group “insists that voter fraud is a pervasive problem and has taken it upon itself to employ questionable, and possibly illegal, methods to combat the ‘problem’. These methods have turned up no fraud and have posed a serious threat of intimidation of entirely eligible voters,” the senators said in a letter today to Husted.”Working through an affiliated group, the Ohio Voter Integrity Project, True the Vote has challenged hundreds of voters in Hamilton (380 challenges) and Franklin (308 challenges) counties. The overwhelming majority of these challenges were rejected, but not before the voters involved were frightened by the prospect of being denied the opportunity to vote.”
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How were people “frightened”? They’re frightened by standard bureaucratic processes? Why are these people “frightened” by such anodyne things?
And True the Vote seemed to have some good reasons for questioning these voters:
Last month, the Franklin County Board of Elections voted 3-0 to reject a Voter Integrity Project request to remove 308 people from the county’s list of registered voters for reasons as varied as providing incomplete address information, being registered at a vacant lot, or being dead.
Were the people who were dead frightened at the thought of losing their non-right to vote absentee from the Astral Plane?
