Democrats oppose voter ID laws by claiming that voter fraud doesn’t happen. They’re lying.
As Virginia legislators hotly debated a voter ID bill that narrowly passed the General Assembly, many were unaware of a state police investigation that, so far, has resulted in charges against 38 people statewide for voter fraud. Warrants have been obtained for a 39th person who can’t be located.
A majority of those cases already have resulted in convictions, and 26 additional cases are still being actively investigated nearly 3½ years after the state Board of Elections forwarded more than 400 voter and election fraud allegations from 62 cities and counties to Virginia State Police for individual investigation.
“We believe these complaints ran the gamut from voter registration fraud issues through potential fraud at the polling place on Election Day,” said Donald Palmer, secretary of the Virginia Board of Elections, who was appointed by Gov. Bob McDonnell in February 2011. “We do not have specific numbers on how the complaints broke down. However, (the state board of elections) is aware that arrests have been made over the past few years for individuals engaging in voter registration fraud.”
About 70 percent of Americans across all backgrounds support voter ID. Democrats, though, as a party oppose requiring ID vote. Democrats will demand ID before you can enter their townhall meetings, and leftwing advocacy groups like the anti-Christian hate group Media Matters will demand ID before you can enter their offices. But they all oppose requiring ID before you cast a vote. So does the Holder Department of Justice, despite the fact that Americans cannot enter DoJ’s headquarters without a photo ID.
I suppose they all could oppose voter ID for more than one reason, but the most obvious is that they want to make it easier to commit voter fraud. That’s what the Virginia investigation is finding when looking into how felons ended up voting.
Authorities in severaljurisdictions said the felons who were charged claimed they had been solicited to register to vote — despite their status as a felon — by people associated with voter advocacy or voter participation groups.
The solicitors, whom police have not been able to identify, apparently encouraged the felons to vote by suggesting that new legislation had restored their fights to vote or their status as a felon would be resolved in some other fashion.
“What that indicates to me, at least among certain groups, is there is an active effort to subvert the laws of the commonwealth,” said Sen. Thomas Garrett, R-Louisa, who as Louisa’s former commonwealth’s attorney prosecuted two felons for voter fraud in 2009.
Odds are, the solicitors hailed from Obama’s friends at ACORN and its Project Vote. Holder’s DoJ is still working hand in hand with Project Vote, despite that organization being outed for rampant corruption years ago.
By the way, True the Vote is having its national summit in Houston this weekend. Several experts on voter ID and voter fraud, including PJ’s J. Christian Adams and Hans von Spakovsky, and ACORN whistle blower Anita MonCrief, will be there.
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