Re Jan. 1 article, “GOP candidates take aim at S.C. voter ID ruling”
This article stated, “several studies indicate that voter fraud in the United States is negligible.”
Webster’s II New College Dictionary defines fraud as: “b. one who pretends to be what he or she is not.” The radical liberal-progressives are only able to come to that conclusion by redefining voter fraud to exclude registration fraud. The voter fraud deniers, from Lori Minnite (professor of political science at Barnard College), The League of Women Voters and the NAACP to the Eric Holder DOJ all use this twisted redefining of election fraud.
Tell that to the people of the 20 states now conducting criminal investigations of election fraud during the 2008 presidential campaign, led by Pennsylvania with 57,000 alleged cases of registration fraud carried on by now convicted employees of ACORN and their affiliates.
Tell that to the Congress that defunded ACORN by legislation signed into law by President Obama. At least 55 employees or associates have been convicted of registration fraud in 11 states (Capital Research Center).
Tell that to the Supreme Court that upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, the most restrictive in the U.S., by a 6-3 vote in which Justice Brennan wrote in the majority opinion: “That flagrant examples of [voter] fraud … have been documented throughout this nation’s history by respected historians and journalists …demonstrate[s] that not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that it could affect the outcome of a close election.”
Tell that to the voters in Mississippi where an NAACP official in Tunica County was convicted on 10 counts of absentee voter fraud in July 2011.
An American University survey in Maryland, Indiana and Mississippi found that less than one-half of 1 percent of registered voters lacked a government-issued ID. A 2006 survey of more than 36,000 voters found that only “23 people in the entire sample … were unable to vote because of an ID requirement.” Every state that has passed a voter ID law has also ensured that every eligible voter without a photo ID can easily attain one free if they cannot afford one.
Black voter turnout in Georgia in the 2006 midterm election was 42.9 percent and after they passed their photo ID law increased to 50.4 percent in the 2010 midterm. Black turnout also rose in Indiana and Mississippi after photo IDs were required. Researchers at the universities of Delaware and Nebraska examined election data from 2000-2006 and concluded, “Concerns about voter identification laws affecting turnout are much ado about nothing.”
The only serious question is the one quoted in the article by Newt Gingrich, “why is it that they are so desperate to retain the ability to steal elections?”
The writer lives in Little River.
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