by Jack
Voter fraud is easy to do and hard to detect. In small municipal elections where a few hundred votes separate winners from losers, a little voter fraud can go a long way.
I was listening to NPR today talking about voter ID laws and how they really don’t stop fraud and worse they could disenfranchise many Americans from our great equalizer…the vote.
According to NPR actual voter fraud represents less than .01 percent of the votes cast across America. They pointed how “W” devoted several years of Dept. of Justice time looking for voter fraud, but none could be found. Then again, these same people at NPR told me that one in ten American adults have no form of photo ID and would be hard pressed to get any and this is why it would be so unfair to force them to get an ID or lose their vote. Let’s take a closer look at that bold statement:
Given there are over 232M adults in the US, that would mean some 23M have absolutely no photo ID, for school, for work, for welfare, for check cashing, for driving, for social security, for renting, for buying a house, for hospitalization, etc.? They go blithe through life never having one piece of photo identification…23 million adults… do you remotely suspect that?
Here’s how to commit voter fraud, and you tell me if a photo ID would be a deterrent?
You register under a fake name using a common address like an apartment complex, frat house or dorm where many names at one address would not be suspect
You register under several names from a real home address.
Impersonate the dead. You watch the obituaries and record names and addresses, then vote in their place on election day.
Elder impersonation. You obtain the names and former addresses of people in rest homes and vote in their place.
You vote in more than one jurisdiction.
Do you see how incredibly easy it is to cast more than one ballot when nobody is checking your ID against the voter roles? But, it doesn’t end there, now we get into more aggressive kinds of voter fraud that goes well beyond impersonation fraud. In past years we have had examples of: 1. Stuffing the ballot box 2. Ballot box theft 3. Voter intimidation 4. Corporate or union backed intimidation 5. Bribery 6. Mutilation of ballots 7. Deliberately tabulating wrong numbers. 8. Felons who vote.
We owe it to ourselves to make sure elections are as honest as possible. My personal take is there’s no excuse for anyone not having a voter photo ID card. It’s a load of you know what when someone says, “Oh the poor will be prohibited from voting if you require ID.” Give me a break.
It doesn’t help when the president is counting on those extra votes and law enforcement’s hands are tied. Not to mention a MSM that turns a blind eye to it. Oh and if you do catch it red handed you are treated like a criminal for catching it. The a-hole is going down and so are a lot of his buddies. Extra votes or not.
Going to get worse, Next week California will allow on line registration, and in 2016 same day registration.
The liberal montra about disenfranchising is a sham. People have from the time of the last election to register.
I want to go back to the standards that used to be followed. The main one was if you don’t vote in the primary can’t voted in the Main election.
We used to show ID an dproof of place of birth when we registered as well.
http://WWW.capoliticalnews.com (org) is a good source
I read this morning that the desperate Democrats are calling white poll watchers from the Tea Party racist. Newsbusters reports:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-vespa/2012/08/27/wapo-uncovers-vast-white-wing-conspiracy-voting-precincts#ixzz24lUzZllg
Desperation reaches a new high with pundits hoping for Katrina ghost to be visited upon the GOP campaign and convention:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/08/26/chuck_todd_shadow_of_bush_and_katrina_hangs_over_gop_convention_.html
If that’s not bad enough desperate activist protesters hoping to ruin the convention were disappointed when the storm kept their numbers down to 200…they expected 5,000.
http://www.wpri.com/dpps/onpolitix/rnc/small-crowds-attend-republican-convention-protests-nd12-jos_4396864
Adding icing to the cake, Mary Matelin reminds desperate Democrats that they have as big a gap with male voters as the Republican gap with female voters:
http://news.yahoo.com/sunday-sound-heard-week-165047685–abc-news-politics.html
And last but not least…the newest Republican of note, former Democrat and seconder for Obama at the 2008 convention, Artur Davis is FOR VOTER ID!
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/315022/artur-davis-s-conversion-john-fund
This article has great information about the statistical rarity of voter fraud, and the need to weigh the costs and benefits of these proposals:
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/voter-fraud-exposed/
“However, the policy question is this: what is the likelihood that this will happen in a given election, and at what rate? That is: is it especially likely that one, let alone a large number, of such ballots might be cast? From there, one has to assess the cost of preventing such an action.
This is how rational policy ought to be made: assessing costs and benefits.
The evidence suggests that voter fraud is quite rare (i.e., the benefit of voter ID laws is such that it could prevent an near-nonexistent problem). So, the benefits are small.”
Your evidence, Chris suggests it is rare.
Since it is also “hard to detect” per Jacks article, and since those interested in assuring that voter fraud continues, ahem, are unlikely to care, the argument for ID is relevant.
ID is required to get into the Democrat Convention. Is the Democrat Party attempting to disenfranchise attendees by requiring they have and show this item, which they claim is so difficult to acquire? Give me a break.
If you are against voter ID you are in support of voter fraud and encouragement of those who would commit fraud, albeit without intent.
Requiring voter ID would send a message that the vote is a solemn national responsibility. It would send the message that fraud will not be tolerated or encouraged.
It is an excellent idea.