Posted by
Steve on Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:08:24 AM
As I was reading stories on Townhall.com, I read one about voter fraud. It seems that voter fraud is pretty easy in states that do not require voter id. In the video, you never see the person shooting the video because he is using a hidden camera. In the video, the man walks up to the table where ballots are handed out. He asks for a ballot of a person who died. The person at the table checks the voter list and then hands the video taker the ballot. At that point, the video taker says he left his id in his car. The person at the table says you do not need voter id to vote in New Hampshire. The video taker then hands the ballot back with a statement that he does not want to vote if he cannot show id. In other words, he is not there to commit voter fraud. He is just there to demonstrate how easy it would be to commit voter fraud without a voter id system.
The video taker seems to be in his 20’s or early 30’s from his voice. The people he requests ballots for were all in their 70’s and above. The voter’s name, birth date and death date are put on the screen to show the viewer what is being requested. At no time did any person working at the poll question the request for a ballot.
The video lasted 10 minutes and showed multiple examples of potential voter id. I stopped watching after about 4 or 5 examples because they were remarkable identical. So, I cannot comment on the end of the video where the summation is made. But the examples speak for themselves. Any state that does not require voter id is asking for voter fraud to be committed.
Now, I did live in North Dakota. In North Dakota, they do not even have voter registration. If you show up at the precinct and are on their list of people who are eligible to vote you can vote. The difference between North Dakota and most other states is that everyone knows everyone else. It would be nearly impossible to commit voter fraud in North Dakota because the people manning the polling place know virtually everyone in the precinct, probably the city. So, North Dakota is probably not the best example of why you do not need voter id to vote.
In any state where there is a large population, precinct workers generally do not know everyone in the precinct like they do in North Dakota. This is asking for voter fraud because they have no way of knowing if the person asking for the ballot is truly the person standing there.
The argument that voter id will disenfranchise voters is false. You need a valid id to purchase cold medicine or drain cleaner. Virtually everyone in the country has to purchase one or both of those items at one time or another. Since they have to have an approved id for those purchases how would it put some extra burden on the voter to have an id? The simple answer is that it would not put an extra burden on the voter. Every state that requires a voter id also will supply all voters with a valid id at no charge. That eliminates the problem of the person not having the id. If they did not have one previously, they would be able to get one now and be able to purchase cold medicine and drain cleaner.
Eric Holder and the DOJ are just trying to make it easier for the Democrats to commit voter fraud in November. There can be no other explanation. Since their argument that it will disenfranchise voters is bogus, what other possible explanation could there be?
Democrats have been committing voter fraud by stuffing ballot boxes for years. There are stories that votes were manufactured in Chicago to elect John Kennedy in 1960. Votes magically appeared in the Governor’s race in Washington State in the last few years to elect a Democrat during a recount. Then in Minnesota a similar thing happened to elect the current junior Senator from Minnesota. Also, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana was elected with rumors of people busing groups of homeless around New Orleans to vote in various precincts. Democrats are famous for their voter fraud. They always accuse Republicans of committing voter fraud. But Democrats always accuse Republicans of doing what they do. They figure if they do it, the Republicans must do it as well. The problem is that Republicans are too stupid to get away with committing voter fraud. They would have been caught at it had they tried it.