GAO Report in Hand, Dems Step Up Voter ID Offensive
“I would also like to commend the people of Pennsylvania who, in spite of the difficulties reported, waited hours at local DMVs to complete the documents required to ensure they will be prepared vote this fall. Their commitment to exercising their right in the face of efforts to take it away is a testament to the plight of Americans who came before them, bled and died so no one would be turned away at the polls,” Cleaver added.
The GAO will be issuing another report next year analyzing the laws’ effects on Election 2012, including a state-by-state analysis of the cost and accessibility of documents required to register to vote and obtain voter ID, along with data on the race, gender and socioeconomic status of voters affected.
“I hope GAO follows up quickly with the review we have requested of alleged in-person voter fraud, the justification used by states in erecting these new barriers affecting millions of voters despite an almost total absence of evidence that it has impacted any election,” said Leahy, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman. “As we saw in our recent Judiciary Committee hearing looking at the impact of laws to restrict voting, we must work to protect one of the most fundamental rights Americans enjoy – the right to vote.”
But the Democrats’ 11th-hour urgency on voting laws — highlighted not just by federal reports but efforts such as the CBC’s Get Vote Ready program and CNN’s documentary this coming Sunday on whether the minority vote is being suppressed — indicates that the party is not content to make voter ID a rearview mirror issue.
“Voting is the most basic tenet of any democracy, and despite widespread public outcry state lawmakers have tried to make it harder to do,” Nelson said. ”The steps taken by legislatures across the country have gone too far, as evidenced once again by the study.”
Former Rep. Artur Davis (Ala.), a Democrat-turned-Republican, told National Journal last week that the laws have “unfairly and inaccurately” become “something of a flash point” in the African-American political community.
“Most people don’t walk into a bank with a fraudulent intent in mind. Most people walk into a bank to get money out of their own account, and they are exactly who they say they are,” Davis said. “But yet banks routinely ask you for an ID, even if you’re someone who’s a regular customer. It doesn’t follow to me that because you don’t have a long, documented, verifiable trail of people trying to engage in misconduct that it’s somehow wrong to ask them for ID.”
Davis said opponents of voter ID are aligning the laws to civil rights violations of the past because it’s “much easier using dramatic imagery.”
“I wonder what individuals who raise the civil-rights analogy thought about Eric Holder’s Department of Justice preclearing the Alabama voter-ID law and the Virginia voter-ID law,” he said. “Is there some suggestion that the Holder Department of Justice has some closet sympathy for voter suppression?”
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, last week sent a letter to Catherine Engelbrecht, president and founder of True the Vote, asking her to provide information about the data used by the group to challenge voter registrations, the training provided to volunteers, and how True the Vote picks its battlegrounds.
“At some point, an effort to challenge voter registrations by the thousands without any legitimate basis may be evidence of illegal voter suppression. If these efforts are intentional, politically-motivated, and widespread across multiple states, they could amount to a criminal conspiracy to deny legitimate voters their constitutional rights,” Cummings wrote.
True the Vote called Cummings’ allegations “factually bankrupt.”
“It is both obvious and unfortunate that you are not familiar with all of the details of the mission or methods of True the Vote,” Engelbrecht wrote back. “This letter serves as an effort to coordinate a convenient meeting time in your Washington, D.C. office, during which I can brief you and your staff about our program and help dispel any misconceptions you may have.”
Cummings said on MSNBC last night that True the Vote efforts “mainly zero in on students, African-Americans, people who would normally vote Democratic.”
The congressman also alleged that the group plans to train a million poll watchers by Election Day “with the sole intent of intimidating people.”
“People should not have to go to a voting place in fear and to be harassed,” Cummings said, questioning whether True the Vote would concentrate its efforts on suburban or urban areas.
It is imperative we have clean, clear, fair elections…If we lose this sacred right…our right to vote because it was fraudently removed from us, one by one…then who is really “disenfranchised”?…Robbed…Ruined…no longer America, but Venezuela or Iran…
wrongheifer, and herein lies the ultimate plans of the left. The fact of the matter is that the left WANTS U.S. leadership to mirror Hugo, Castro, A’jad etc, principally because power and control (over the citizenry)is their end goal.Of course, they would rather stick needles in their eyes than admit said truth. But true no less.
Is it any coincidence, despite all the evidence pointing towards massive electoral fraud, they still keep fighting proper ID vetting? To be sure, without the media’s collusion, via the bugaboo of racism, the above would be a losing battle-theirs.
Furthermore, Barack HUSSEIN Obama and his surrogates are of like-mind with Hugo and his cohorts. For heavens sake, he gave him a congrats on being ‘re-elected’! It is intrinsic to note, the U.S. is on the precipice, and it is nearly bowed. Not only to the left, but to their twin Islamic devil.
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/09/02/the-subversion-of-america-through-the-fault-lines-of-democracy-muslims-in-america-plotting-in-plain-sight-with-their-leftist-counterparts-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/ tells part of the tale.
In effect, under the guise of democracy, the evisceration of freedom and liberty has taken place. Not only in far off lands, but right in America’s backyards! Ain’t PC, multicultural psychosis the ultimate weapon of (democratic) destruction?
And, who says leftists and Islamists aren’t cunning? They run circles around conservatives, who are (mostly) hell bent on playing by the rules.
NOT this blogger.
Obama may have to be forcibly removed from the White House and military officers are not likely to honor their oath to the United States Constitution and do it unless they go through their generals.
Black faith leaders announce campaign goal to strip 25 percent of black vote from Obama 10/09/2012
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/09/faith-leaders-aim-to-strip-25-percent-of-black-vote-from-obama/
Let me slightly rephrase that last comment of mine as it seems to have been sent to the cornfield.
If the nice President Barack Obama loses the election but his Attorney General, the honorable Eric Holder, files law suits in several states to bring those states over to the nice President Barack Obama’s column, then Mitt Romney and Big Bird and Elmo should all very politely ask the nice President Barack Obama to vacate the office of the Presidency come January of 2013, but if he says no then, of course, he must be allowed to remain President for as long as he wants as to demand otherwise would just be plain rude. And racist.
A likely scenario . . . . if it’s close.
If it’s not close, they can’t cheat. – Hught Hewitt.
Dems believe they have a better chance if they can find a sympathetic judge than they do by trying to make their case, i.e., win hearts and minds. This is a permanent truth. Their urban wardheelers and criminal elements have been practicing “losing” and “finding” boxes stuffed with ballots for centuries. We need computer voting, with pins, and privacy. Dems go on and on about how easy it is to hack a program; but that’s nothing compared to the time-honored traditions of vote rigging, box stuffing, etc. that paper ballots and absentee ballots make so irresistable.
It is funny how hard liberals fight Voter ID laws. Kind of gives you a sense for how much they count on their absence.
You could make the same statement on the other side, that Republicans are counting on a restricted franchise.
How would the franchise be restricted? “The poor” will not have ID? C’mon, ID costs about the same as a pack of cigarettes, and that’s in the states that will not give them free ID.
Want a laugh? Alaska’s voter ID law is being challenged as unfairly denying the Hispanics a right to vote. No one can get to Alaska without showing an ID somewhere along the line.
only a simple person would think that securing a true vote by something as simple as an i.d. could be cause for racial contention. thus we again have the dem. party of perpetual and everlastng racial victimology (p.e.r.v.).
so, what to expect from an apparent fraud who sold guns to murderers and drug dealers, got Americans and hundreds of Mexicans killed, destroyed documents(?) and then claimed executive privilege where none existed? what to expect from a guy who covers up the facts about our ambassador and 3 others murdered because of his administration’s actions/inactions – in our face lies over and over and over?
i grew up watching the ussr and other ‘less than honorable’ regimes treat the truth like a roll of toilet paper. kill millions of their own people overnight and lie to your face. these type people, driven by the notion that they know best, no matter what it costs, have killed millions.
maybe we can have a big party somewhere w/ lots of celeb’s, and when they leave seperately on AF 1 & AF II again, change all the locks and passwords.
holder? wonder if maybe romney has a high position for him? i have a suggestion.
Damn, these day-old Democrat chicken bones sure do stink. Time to take out the trash.
Why is PJM telling me that I am posting too fast when I have not posted ANYTHING today? I am a paying PJTV member and this crap, which happens too often, is beginning to piss me off.
It seems the entire Democratic machine is set to use every legal, and less than legal, means to insure the Won wins. Are they afraid that someone might look into their conduct over the last four years, or are they simply seeing their revolution die again. Either way, the only hope for a clean election and turnover of power is a substantial Romney vctory. If it’s too close it may be stolen, like Franken’s MN senate race, or tied up in various obvious and less obvious (or honest) challenges for months.
I am convinced that the left will do anything they think they can to win, or steal, this election. Not sure exactly why, since the next four years will be tough, but maybe they just want to finish the “fundamental change” they are already so well on the way to accomplishing.
You can’t cash a check with suitable ID. You can not refuse to identify yourself to a law enforcement officer. How is it that you can register to vote without showing identification?
So the Left Wing moonbats, the corrupt Racist DOJ Holder and the Democrats and the Lame Stream EneMedia believe that rquiring photo ID to vote is discriminatory to minorities.
Well lest see the ONLY way you could presume that such a move discriminates against minorities is that you would have to believe that minorities are too STUPID to be able to obtain a photo ID. Now THATS what I call being RACIST.
The real reason the corrupt USURPER Regime want to prevent voters from showing ID’s of course is so they can STEAL the election by corrupting the vote. After it was Stalin , one of their own, who said ‘Its not the votes that count its WHO counts the vote”.
With all due respect, Rep. Cummings is a bald faced liar and he knows it. He’s been offered opportunities to view every aspect of True the Vote’s approach and mission. Evidently, he chooses ignorance to reinforce his hate and bigotry. Too bad, because there is nothing unconstitutional about one person, one vote. Yet he perpetuates the lie that that effort somehow keeps his people from voting. My how common sense is misrepresented by these libs.
There are really two separate issues. First, there are the absentee votes which are clearly easy to manipulate. Second, however, on poll day we should have the Iraq-style ink stained finger which would eliminate multiple voting on election day. That would not require any special forms to fill out or prove citizenship, but it would limit the votes to one per person.