Election Fraud Minimal, Says Baltimore Democrat Sun
Posted on October 6, 2008
After 8 years of listening to the massive whining from Democrats and their supporters about Bush having stolen the 2000 election, calling him the pResident, then claiming the GOP stole the 2004 election, issues that have never stopped being a cause to make Liberals wacko, we get this from Cynthia Tucker at the Baltimore Sun (she is also the editorial page editor for the Atlanta Democrat Journal-Constitution)
The base of the Republican Party – a dwindling but still significant group – clings to a handful of pseudo-facts that don’t hold up to serious scrutiny but that still occupy a central place in GOP ideology. Those include the assertion that Saddam Hussein represented a threat to the United States, that affirmative action in lending led to the mortgage crisis and that voter fraud is a serious problem in modern elections. In campaign seasons such as this, when victory may turn on a handful of votes, none of those claims is more important to Republican activists than overhyped allegations of voter fraud.
During the last decade, GOP-dominated state legislatures around the country have used assertions of mischief at the ballot box to push through harsh voter ID laws, requiring voters to present state-sponsored photo identification cards when they go to the polls. Republican strategists have also pushed prosecutors to go after allegedly fraudulent voters.
Those GOP strategists know better: One study after another has shown that voter fraud is, at worst, extremely rare. And the sort of in-person fraud that would be prevented by stiff voter ID laws is virtually nonexistent. But Karl Rove and his minions also know this: Voter ID laws can be used to disenfranchise a few hundred or a few thousand voters who are more likely to vote Democratic, usually poor or elderly voters who don’t have driver’s licenses. In close races, shaving off 1 or 2 percentage points is all you need to claim victory.
Are you snickering and chuckling right now? Democrats whined beyond belief about fraud, all the while registering the homeless, foreigners, illegal aliens, pets, dead pets, dead people, and felons, not to mention registering to vote in multiple states. This is a central point in many liberals’ world, with tons of threads at the Democratic Underground, Brad Blog, Daily Kos, etc. The Democrat Party, the Kerry camp, and now the Obama camp deployed massive amounts of lawyers all over the country because they were worried about cheating. But, hey, it is a GOP only issue, you know.
Plus, we got a Karl Rove and Saddam Hussein mention!
All the GOP has tried to do is respond to the whining by Democrats, as well as the reality of the real voter fraud perpetrated by Democrats, with common sense. Having to show an ID is apparently completely out of bound for the Democrats, which should let you know what’s in their heads. The Supreme Court has upheld needing ID to vote, BTW, Cynthia.
Ah, but meanwhile, let’s hear from someone who know a bit better than an editorial writer,
Our nation may be on the brink of repeating the 2000 Florida election debacle, but this time in several states, with allegations of voter fraud, intimidation and flawed voting machines added to the generalized chaos that sent Bush v. Gore to the Supreme Court for overtime.
“If you think of election problems as akin to forest fires, the woods are no drier than they were in 2000, but many more people have matches,” says Doug Chapin, editor of the nonpartisan Electionline.org.
The article itself is written by John Fund, who wrote “Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy.” I reckon he knows a bit on the subject.
And, what Cynthia missed was that the Baltimore Sun just ran an editorial called “Voter Beware” on the issue of fraud, which a reader took issue with, since it didn’t bother to mention ACORN.
And I guess she missed this
and
More Dead, Underage And Fictitious Voter Registrations in Indiana, From ACORN
Nothing to see, move along. But, heck, in Democrat World, having a split ballot is almost voter fraud. It certainly is an issue to the Democrats, when, as we saw in Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004, Democrat voters are just not smart enough to follow directions in filling the ballots out.
Oh, BTW, Democrats have controlled both branches of Congress since 2007, and had control of the Senate till January 2003. What have they done to help reduce fraud? It’ll never go away, nor will the dirty tricks, that is part of politics.
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Are you THAT clueless? Apparently, you are, if you don’t know the difference between phony claims of “voter fraud”, by John Fund and his ilk, and real concerns about ELECTION fraud (gaming of elections via machines, administrative purges, etc.)
For a hint, since you referenced The BRAD BLOG, you can be the judge on how your hero, propagandist John Fund held up last week when I interviewed him (he hung up at the first commercial break), or even your other hero, the reprehensible voter fraud fraudster Hans von Spakovsky, when I was with him on NPR over the weekend.
Cowardly Fund Interview:
http://www.bradblog.com/audio/PeterBCollins_Brad_JohnFund_100308.mp3
Lying Von Spakovsky Interview:
http://www.bradblog.com/TavisSmiley_BradFriedman_HansVonSpakovsky_100308.mp3
If your readers want REAL information on your imaginary “reality of the real voter fraud perpetrated by Democrats”, I suggest you see check the fruits of the Bush Administration’s own Dept. Of Justice’s unprecedented effort to apprehend those dastardly Democratic “voter fraud” villains right here:
NYTIMES: “In 5-Year DOJ Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/washington/12fraud.html?ei=5088&en=277feccfa099c7d0&ex=1334030400&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1197490509-kQxLoEru+cH9aetsLB6CnA
Or see Bush’s own U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s inability to find “voter fraud” either in their bi-partisan report:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4391
But you go ahead and keep chasing those ghosts, allow yourself to be played as a tool, and continue your masters’ efforts at taking a huge dump on American values such as democracy and the U.S. Constitution.
Whadda sucker. Your grandparents who may have fought and died for democracy are likely spinning in their graves, chief.
How proud they must be of you.
OK, here’s the one thing I would like to know, Brad: how would you fix the system to make voter fraud minimal? We won’t ever get rid of it, but, perhaps I missed a post of yours (I probably check your site once a week, once every other week), but, I have seen lots of complaining about all sorts of EVIL GOP tricks and this voter fraud and that voter fraud, and it always seems to be the EVIL GOP behind it.
What measures would you put in place? I’m a die hard Conservative (or, better, Classical Liberal) but I would have no problem with a federal database which would work similar to an I-9: you have to provide 2 pieces of documentation to prove you are you, preferablly a SS# and DL#. Then, at time of voting, show your voter registration card and ID. There are also some other ideas, and they all revolve around proving you are you. Still wouldn’t be perfect, but, would certainly allow a better way of making sure a person is the correct person, are not fictional, and are not voting in more then one state/precinct. Heck, at one point, I was registered in North Carolina and New Jersey. I could have easily have voted in both states. I didn’t. Just NC. I could do the same thing now.
So, what is your idea?
Why have you deleted my reply to you, William?
You don’t even include a note to explain why you’ve removed it?? Are your arguments against it that week??
Incredible.
You don’t even include a note to explain why you’ve removed it?? Are your arguments against it that week??
Profanity.
What profanity? I recall none, but if you’re too precious to handle it, why don’t you either replace the profanity with ***’s, like grown up site do? Or otherwise note why a comment has been removed.
If there was any, it would be appropriate to remove it, and post it without that, if you can’t stand it. There is helpful information to the hapless William in that reply, and I’ve seen no rules for posting that warned against “profanity”.
why don’t you either replace the profanity with ***’s, like grown up site do?
Better still; keep your advice,condescension and snark to yourself and run your site as you see fit. We will do the same here.
If you can’t make your point without the inclusion of sh*tty little remarks…don’t waste your time.