One Citizen, One Vote
26 September 2006Yesterday Neal Boortz went on at length about the fact that the Constitution nowhere contains a right to vote. To be sure, many state Constitutions do contain such a right but it does not exist in the US Constitution.
Still, most American’s believe there is an absolute right to vote. Without getting to far into that debate, I want to look at the requirements to vote. The Constitution does have requirements for states if they extend the right to vote. For example, all citizens must be included, no one can be excluded based on race, etc. So what about the requirement to be a citizen?
The House has now passed a bill requiring a government issued photo ID to be eligible to vote. Most Americans intuitively understand that it is reasonable to ask citizens to prove they are who they say they are when they show up at their local polling place. What could be more reasonable?
Democrats, it turns out, think photo ID’s are completely unreasonable. They present a myriad of reasons why this should be so. Cynthia Tucker, liberal columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, thinks there is no reason for such a requirement in the first place. She contends that we don’t have a problem with illegal aliens voting.
Laura Scott of the Kansas City Star says,
Picture this: an immigrant who is in this country illegally marches up to a polling place in November and demands a ballot.
Sound far-fetched? Does to me, too. It sounds like a sure ticket back home, after some jail time. Attempting to vote without the right of citizenship is against federal law.
These people are raising a straw man argument. While voting by illegal immigrants is a concern it is not the primary concern. Concerted and orchestrated efforts at vote fraud are the primary concern and we’ve countless episodes of it in recent elections.
Vote fraud probably goes back to the very founding of our country but it wasn’t until the presidential eliciting of 1960 that it reach such proportions that it became obvious. In that election “tens of thousands of dead people” ended up voting for Kennedy in Mayor Daley’s Chicago.
According to the November 6, 2000 edition of WorldNet Daily, a letter was sent to immigrants who had applied for citizenship but had not yet gained that status that included a card the immigrants were told was a voter registration card. Further, the letter from President Clinton said, all they had to do was sign the card, then go to the polls and vote for a Democrat!
Below that letter is a P.S. that explains: “Here is your personal Voter Identification Card. Sign your name, then detach your card. Bring your card with you to your polling place on Election Day. It will help your voting go more smoothly.”
Apparently all the recipient needs to do with this Voter Identification Card is sign it to be eligible to vote. Keep in mind, this was sent to a previously unregistered voter.
Voter fraud has been on the rise in America and most of it is possible because a photo ID is not required to vote. Such a simple measure as requiring citizens to prove they are who they say they are is being fought tooth and nail by Democrats across this country. Why is that?
I contend that Democrats want voter fraud to continue because they know that it primarily benefits them. And in many cases it is orchestrated by Democrats to begin with as with the Daley voter fraud in 1960 Chicago.
This issue is also an example of why it is so important for Republicans to control the Senate and for Republican to be in the White House. Repeatedly the courts have found that requiring photo ID’s presents to great a barrier to voting for the poor in this country. Even in Georgia where their law provided for state money for the ID’s so low income voters would receive them free, it also provided that the state would come to the voter to make the ID and give it to them. Still, the court found that to be a barrier to voting. What abject nonsense!
In the end it is legal, registered voters who lose. When I, a legally registered voter, cast my vote and that vote gets canceled by someone who votes illegally for another candidate, my franchise has been revoked! That is the case for millions of voters across this country every election cycle. Their votes are canceled by others who vote illegally.
There are, of course, other ways in which vote fraud is perpetrated. Take for example the 2000 election where thousands of absentee military ballots were invalidated for silly reasons. And the thousands more military voters who did not receive their absentee ballots in time to return them on time. The Democrats embarked on a systematic campaign to invalidate as many absentee military ballots as they could in Florida that year.
Then there was the vandalism in Florida and elsewhere of Republican campaign offices. Tires were slashed, windows were broken and union thugs barged into offices and physically attacked Republican campaign workers.
Yes, vote fraud is indeed rampant in this country and it is mostly perpetrated by Democrats. We need solid reforms that insure that each citizen’s right to vote is protected and only citizens vote. Nothing else will do.
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[...] Not long ago I blogged about Republican legislation in Congress to require voters to show government issued photo ID in order to vote. But as important as voting is and as important as it is to ensure that the ballot box is inviolate, the Democrats howled about how requiring a photo ID would disenfranchise the poor in this country by adding an insurmountable obstacle to voting. [...]