Rep. Elijah Cummings needs someone in his office that knows election law to write his next letter attacking the Tea Party. This week, Cummings sent a nastygram letter to the Houston based Tea Party group True the Vote. The organization has been working to clean up the voter rolls of dead and ineligible voters. Apparently this sort of civic minded volunteerism rubbed Cummings the wrong way. The Baltimore Sun reported his threats to a group of law-abiding private citizens:
In a letter to Texas-based True the Vote, the Baltimore Democrat argues that the group and its affiliates have been unsuccessful in identifying people who are incorrectly registered. Instead, Cummings argues, the groups are jeopardizing to disenfranchise people who are correctly registered to vote.
“At some point, an effort to challenge voter registrations by the thousands without any legitimate basis may be evidence of illegal voter suppression,” Cummings wrote. “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 needs to get himself a lawyer who knows more about election law and less about playing the race card. First of all, there is no federal statute which mentions “voter suppression.” That is rhetoric used by the left to chill legitimate political activity that doesn’t help the left. Secondly, as reported yesterday here at PJ Tatler, True the Vote is discovering individuals who voted twice in federal elections. Perhaps Cummings objects to this discovery for reasons we can only speculate. Third, federal law allows citizens to bring cases under Section 8 of Motor Voter (a law Cummings supported) to force states and counties to remove dead and ineligible voters. Perhaps Cummings is against the removal of dead voters, again, for reasons we can only speculate.
Cummings makes up law when he says if the effort to remove voters ”are intentional, politically-motivated, and widespread across multiple states, they could amount to a criminal conspiracy.” Balderdash. There is no such law. In fact, the effort to remove dead voters are intentional and widespread across multiple states. They aren’t politically motivated, but they are motivated by having clean elections.
He can’t help it.
He can’t even see the chains that Liberal whites have on his ankles.
Got it wrong. He is pulling on ours…. the nerve that they want an actual election…
We all knew from the beginning of DOJ’s attack on Voter ID laws what it was all about. Obama and the Dems are going to do their damnest to steal the election. If they cannot get it honestly, like the good Chicago politicians they are, they will stuff the ballot box for Obama.
Voter ID laws affect 3 minorities hardest. Illegal Aliens, Felons and the Dead. All 3 are key democrat voting blocks. They need those voters, or else people might end up with a government without them.
I think people who commit election fraud, Democrat, Republican, whoever, should be prosocuted as traitors. If we ended up hanging a few every couple of years, we might get cleaner elections.
When the final numbers come in on the drop in (mostly) Dem registrations across the country, we will finally have a realistic view of the corruption that ACORN (and its like groups) brought to the electoral process.
Every elected official that benefited from that corruption should be thinking of how they are going to wash off that stench (are you listening Stuart Smalley?).
If only Rep. Cummings cared as much about dead Mexicans as he does about Zombie voters. His obstructionist behavior during the investigation into Operation Fast and Furious by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was pathetic.
Dead Mexicans can help him disarm whitey, and Zombie voters keep him in office.
Does it really matter whether someone is politically motivated to remove dead voters?
It does to the Democrats, it’s a big part of their base.
I think Voter ID is a must for a civilized society, and a legitimate cause for changing governments if denied. There is, however, a legitimate fear (or should be) that once ID card checking happens in earnest (and it will have to, because frafulent IDs will multiply), valid IDs will be considered invalid for flimsy reasons. Political reasons. There are, however, solutions for this potential misuse of a necessary power, and thus I think we need to move ahead with Voter ID.
Richardson beat me to it: Cummings has, so far, been unable to see ANY wrongdoing by ATF, by FBI, by DHS, by Holder; he’s either made excuses them or accused people finding wrongdoing of racism. Hell, he accused anyone actually investigating of either being racist or controlled by racists. His opinions on the concept of justice just don’t mean much.
Sadly Rep Cummings is my representative. I have been voting against him and submitting my objections ever since I discovered this travesty. He is a perfect soldier in the Obama, Holder army. Of course most Maryland congressional members are. Maryland fosters a welcoming sanctuary, ObamaPhone paradise here and too many state legal (and surely illegal) voters buy in to it with all their hearts. They stopped thinking long ago and seem impervious to any form of breaking through their fog.
He does a great job of getting federal moneys to his/the Administration’s faithful and keeping them informed how blessed they are.
Echoing the leftist line that old white men always ran politics to suit themselves, I wish most of the old black men would retire from our Congress. They are, almost to the man, steeped in 50s era civil rights struggle, which in itself is not a bad thing, but which has left them with a cemented, sclerotic view of black/white America. I long for the day when young white and black men AND women come into the government without the laborious luggage of the last century, and start to weld this country into ONE.
Here are some questions for you Tea Partiers to answer:
1. Would you rather disenfranchise 100 or 1000 legal voters to prevent one illegal vote?
2. Do you any evidence of “dead Mexicans” voting? Any at all? We have ample evidence of college students, minority voters, elderly voters being denied voter registration.
Voter fraud statistics in Wisconsin: 2 ten thousandths of one percent. 23 cases in 7 years out of 11,000,000.
Voter fraud in Ohio: 5 cases in 14 million votes.
3. Is clearing the voting roles of illegals, dead people, felons, etc a simple matter? Do you just compare names and remove those who match one of the aforementioned? You know, I hope, that that simple approach does not work.