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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Yeah, Not So Much

Remember all that business about how voter fraud was rampant and every state needed to pass laws to stop this awful law breaking.

Yeah, not so much. 

The analysis of 2,068 reported fraud cases by News21, a Carnegie-Knight investigative reporting project, found 10 cases of alleged in-person voter impersonation since 2000.

10? Good grief, someone call the CDC. This epidemic is out of control!!!

With 146 million registered voters in the United States, those represent about one for every 15 million prospective voters.

Well, now I can see why this was such a concern and why we now need photo ID's.

Oh, wait. Here's why.



8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Remember how counties have more registered voters than citizens?

Remember how you continue to claim this and you continue to look like a fool?

Yeah, you still continue to beat that dead horse...

Anonymous said...

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/08/07/al-franken-and-the-felon-vote/

Don said...

Several states have passed voter ID laws. Voter participation did not go down after those laws were passed. It happened in Indiana.

blk said...

Voter ID laws are explicitly constructed to allow Republicans to rule from the minority. Students, young people, urban dwellers, ethnic minorities and the elderly are explicitly targeted. All of these groups don't drive because they don't need cars and therefore don't have drivers licenses, the most common form of photo ID.

And just because you have an ID doesn't mean anything. Someone who's actually impersonating a voter won't be deterred by having to show an ID -- fake IDs are trivial to get. Ask any high school student in a bar.

In many jurisdictions they allow the use of drivers license and gun license, but explicitly disallow student IDs. These laws are dripping with bias.

If this was really about ensuring the integrity of the vote, there would be a nation-wide voter ID card, and everyone voting would be logged into a national computer system to detect double-voting. It should be the responsibility of the government to ensure that every voter gets one of those IDs and keeps the information current.

This would prevent THE MOST common form of voter fraud, which is people who own multiple homes voting in the wrong jurisdiction, or multiple times, usually with absentee ballots -- which won't be stopped at all by current photo ID laws.

juris imprudent said...

I'm just so amused by the faux outrage about producing ID to vote - considering you have to do so to board an airplane or cash a check, even to collect welfare benefits: The case worker will give a list of required documents needed at the appointment. Common documents asked for are proof of income, ID, and utility bills or other proof of residency.

-just dave said...

So, I guess according to your numbers, Jesse Jackson was pretty full of it, claiming all that voter fraud and intimidation back in 2000...

-just dave said...

Seeing as states that have voter ID laws are not having any issues with this, what evidence do you have that voter ID is prohibiting people from voting?

Mark Ward said...

Early estimates say that there could be several hundred thousand people in PA that won't be able to vote. You have to get a birth certificate (ahem) in order to get the ID. That actually costs money if you have to go out of state so isn't that a poll tax?

For those of you that support Photo ID to vote, why aren't you guys bunged up about absentee voter fraud which, according to this study, says is far more prevalent?