IN OUR FUTURE, ONLY CARD-CARRYING AMERICANS CAN VOTE!
WHY? HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN?
THE SIGNERS OF THE CONSTITUTION DIDN'T CARRY "I.D. CARDS".
AMERICANS HAVE BEEN VOTING EVER SINCE WITHOUT "CARDS".
WHY FIX SOMETHING THAT ISN'T BROKEN?
WHY, HAVEN'T YOU HEARD?
VOTER FRAUD IS RAMPANT!
THOSE BLACKS AND ILLEGALS AND LATINOS AND OLD PEOPLE AND OUR MILITARY ABROAD AND STUDENTS AND RURAL FOLKS AND THE POOR PEOPLE ARE ALL TRYING TO VOTE "ILLEGALLY"!
WE HAVE TO HAVE VOTER I.D. CARDS!
REALLY?
NO!
JUST THE FACTS!
Between 2000 and 2010, there were:
~649 million votes cast in general elections
~47,000 UFO sightings
~441 Americans killed by lightning
~13 credible cases of in-person voter impersonation
JUST 13 OUT OF 649 MILLION!
SO MORE PEOPLE SAW UFOs AND WERE KILLED BY LIGHTNING THAN WERE CHARGED AND TRIED FOR VOTER FRAUD!
BUT, BUT DOESN'T VOTER FRAUD EXIST?
TECHNICALLY, 13 CREDIBLE CASES CAN BE SAID TO SHOW THERE WAS INDEED 13 CASES OF PROSECUTABLE FRAUD.
ARE THERE "HUGE NUMBERS OF VOTER FRAUD CASES" LIKE THE GOP SAYS?
NOPE!
BLATANT, INTENTIONAL LIE.
FALSE.
UNLESS WE COUNT THE HUNDREDS OF WAYS THE GOP HAS FOUND TO DISENFRANCHISE VOTERS...IF WE COUNT RULES, LAWS, DIRTY TRICKS TO KEEP CERTAIN PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE POLLS, PEOPLE WITH EVERY RIGHT TO VOTE, THEN YES, VOTER FRAUD IS REAL, BUT THE FRAUD IS COMMITTED BY THOSE TRYING TO KEEP VOTERS FROM VOTING!
THE GOP MAY HAVE LATCHED ONTO A LITTLE KNOWN FACT TO BUILD ITS REALLY BIG LIE INTO A HARD-SELL, SOMETHING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC JUST MIGHT BUY...
WHAT WAS THAT?
THE BUSH vs GORE, LAWSUIT, 2000, AFTER THE HANGING CHAD FIASCO.
GORE LOST, BUT HOW MANY CAN TELL US WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S RULING ACTUALLY DECIDED?
YOU MAY BE SURPRISED!
IN ITS DECISION, THE COURT STATED:"The individual citizen has NO FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO VOTE FOR ELECTORS FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES unless and until the state legislature chooses a statewide election as the means to implement its power to appoint members of the ELECTORAL COLLEGE."
In other words, the Supreme Court declared that the Constitution contains NO RIGHT to vote for president, says Alexander Keyssar, professor of history and social policy at Harvard University.
AND PLEASE LOOK AT THE SUPREME COURT'S STATEMENT MORE CLOSELY...WE DON'T VOTE FOR THE MAN WE CHOOSE AS PRESIDENT, WE VOTE FOR MEMBERS OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE WHO WILL VOTE FOR US!
Yale law professor Heather Gerken wrote: "The Constitution does NOT guarantee Americans the right to vote. That always comes as a surprise to non-lawyers."
IT BLOODY WELL CAME AS A SURPRISE TO ME AT THE TENDER AGE OF 23, OVER 40 YEARS AGO!
It seems that intending or implying aren't quite the same as an explicit guarantee.
"It is correct that there is not an explicit provision in the Constitution guaranteeing the right to vote," Hans von Spakovsky of the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation said, "but several amendments guarantee the right to vote at age 18, free of racial discrimination, and protected by the Equal Protection doctrine."[Remember that the GOP's own super-hero said this, please.]
WHAT DOES THE ORIGINAL U.S. CONSTITUTION SAY ABOUT VOTING RIGHTS?
NOTHING, ZIP, NADA!
"Nothing in the Constitution explicitly guarantees our right to vote."
SO, WHEN U.S. REPRESENTATIVE MARK POCAN (D-WISCONSIN) SAID..."While the right to vote is inherent throughout our founding document, and there are amendments prohibiting discrimination, nothing in the Constitution explicitly guarantees our right to vote. We, as Americans, possess NO AFFIRMATIVE RIGHT TO VOTE."
...HE WAS RIGHT!
HE AND 24 OTHER HOUSE DEMOCRATS INTRODUCED H.J. RES 25 IN JANUARY THIS YEAR TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION TO GIVE EVERY U.S. CITIZEN THAT RIGHT.
HOWEVER, THAT BILL WAS SENT BY THE SPEAKER TO COMMITTEE!
A BILL SENT UP TO COMMITTEE IS AS GOOD AS DEAD!
MORE ON THIS LITTLE TACTIC IN A FUTURE BLOG SHOWING YOU THE DIRTY TRICKS CONGRESS USES TO DEFEAT THE OPPOSING "SIDE".
WHILE OUR 'FOUNDING FATHERS' SEEMED TO AGREE THAT CAUCASIAN MALES WITH EITHER PROPERTY OR TAXABLE INCOME WERE THE ONLY ONES QUALIFIED TO VOTE, THEY LEFT IT UP TO EACH STATE TO CREATE VOTING LAWS...AND THEREIN LIES THE CURRENT PROBLEM.
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
"Literacy tests, poll taxes, and religious tests were some of the state and local laws used in various parts of the United States to deny immigrants (including legal ones and newly naturalized citizens), non-white citizens, Native Americans, and any other locally "undesirable" groups from exercising voting rights . "
YOU SEE, AMERICA'S RACE PROBLEM AND AMERICA'S BIGOTS AND ELITISTS WERE HERE BEFORE THE CONSTITUTION, AND REMAIN IN GREATER NUMBERS TODAY.
THE RECENT NEWS STORIES OF LEAKED OR UNCOVERED RACIST EMAILS AMONG LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, JUDGES, COURT STAFF, POLITICIANS, WALL STREET ELITE, ETC, MAKE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT RACIAL TENSION, AND BIGOTRY IS STILL A BIG PROBLEM IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW.
SOME PEOPLE WILL NEVER ACCEPT THAT "ALL ARE CREATED EQUAL".
THERE IS AN ELEMENT IN AMERICA THAT DOES NOT WANT EVERY CITIZEN TO VOTE.
IT IS APPARENT THAT THIS ELEMENT IS DEDICATED TO MANIPULATE THE OUTCOME OF OUR ELECTORAL PROCESS, TO KEEP THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE SILENCED, BY SEVERELY RESTRICTING WHO CAN BE PART OF THE VOTING PUBLIC, BY GERRYMANDERING, AND BY KEEPING THE POPULAR VOTE FROM ACTUALLY CHOOSING OUR PRESIDENT. ~441 Americans killed by lightning
~13 credible cases of in-person voter impersonation
JUST 13 OUT OF 649 MILLION!
SO MORE PEOPLE SAW UFOs AND WERE KILLED BY LIGHTNING THAN WERE CHARGED AND TRIED FOR VOTER FRAUD!
BUT, BUT DOESN'T VOTER FRAUD EXIST?
TECHNICALLY, 13 CREDIBLE CASES CAN BE SAID TO SHOW THERE WAS INDEED 13 CASES OF PROSECUTABLE FRAUD.
ARE THERE "HUGE NUMBERS OF VOTER FRAUD CASES" LIKE THE GOP SAYS?
NOPE!
BLATANT, INTENTIONAL LIE.
FALSE.
UNLESS WE COUNT THE HUNDREDS OF WAYS THE GOP HAS FOUND TO DISENFRANCHISE VOTERS...IF WE COUNT RULES, LAWS, DIRTY TRICKS TO KEEP CERTAIN PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE POLLS, PEOPLE WITH EVERY RIGHT TO VOTE, THEN YES, VOTER FRAUD IS REAL, BUT THE FRAUD IS COMMITTED BY THOSE TRYING TO KEEP VOTERS FROM VOTING!
THE GOP MAY HAVE LATCHED ONTO A LITTLE KNOWN FACT TO BUILD ITS REALLY BIG LIE INTO A HARD-SELL, SOMETHING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC JUST MIGHT BUY...
WHAT WAS THAT?
THE BUSH vs GORE, LAWSUIT, 2000, AFTER THE HANGING CHAD FIASCO.
GORE LOST, BUT HOW MANY CAN TELL US WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S RULING ACTUALLY DECIDED?
YOU MAY BE SURPRISED!
IN ITS DECISION, THE COURT STATED:"The individual citizen has NO FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO VOTE FOR ELECTORS FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES unless and until the state legislature chooses a statewide election as the means to implement its power to appoint members of the ELECTORAL COLLEGE."
In other words, the Supreme Court declared that the Constitution contains NO RIGHT to vote for president, says Alexander Keyssar, professor of history and social policy at Harvard University.
AND PLEASE LOOK AT THE SUPREME COURT'S STATEMENT MORE CLOSELY...WE DON'T VOTE FOR THE MAN WE CHOOSE AS PRESIDENT, WE VOTE FOR MEMBERS OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE WHO WILL VOTE FOR US!
Yale law professor Heather Gerken wrote: "The Constitution does NOT guarantee Americans the right to vote. That always comes as a surprise to non-lawyers."
IT BLOODY WELL CAME AS A SURPRISE TO ME AT THE TENDER AGE OF 23, OVER 40 YEARS AGO!
It seems that intending or implying aren't quite the same as an explicit guarantee.
"It is correct that there is not an explicit provision in the Constitution guaranteeing the right to vote," Hans von Spakovsky of the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation said, "but several amendments guarantee the right to vote at age 18, free of racial discrimination, and protected by the Equal Protection doctrine."[Remember that the GOP's own super-hero said this, please.]
WHAT DOES THE ORIGINAL U.S. CONSTITUTION SAY ABOUT VOTING RIGHTS?
NOTHING, ZIP, NADA!
"Nothing in the Constitution explicitly guarantees our right to vote."
SO, WHEN U.S. REPRESENTATIVE MARK POCAN (D-WISCONSIN) SAID..."While the right to vote is inherent throughout our founding document, and there are amendments prohibiting discrimination, nothing in the Constitution explicitly guarantees our right to vote. We, as Americans, possess NO AFFIRMATIVE RIGHT TO VOTE."
...HE WAS RIGHT!
HE AND 24 OTHER HOUSE DEMOCRATS INTRODUCED H.J. RES 25 IN JANUARY THIS YEAR TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION TO GIVE EVERY U.S. CITIZEN THAT RIGHT.
HOWEVER, THAT BILL WAS SENT BY THE SPEAKER TO COMMITTEE!
A BILL SENT UP TO COMMITTEE IS AS GOOD AS DEAD!
MORE ON THIS LITTLE TACTIC IN A FUTURE BLOG SHOWING YOU THE DIRTY TRICKS CONGRESS USES TO DEFEAT THE OPPOSING "SIDE".
WHILE OUR 'FOUNDING FATHERS' SEEMED TO AGREE THAT CAUCASIAN MALES WITH EITHER PROPERTY OR TAXABLE INCOME WERE THE ONLY ONES QUALIFIED TO VOTE, THEY LEFT IT UP TO EACH STATE TO CREATE VOTING LAWS...AND THEREIN LIES THE CURRENT PROBLEM.
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
"Literacy tests, poll taxes, and religious tests were some of the state and local laws used in various parts of the United States to deny immigrants (including legal ones and newly naturalized citizens), non-white citizens, Native Americans, and any other locally "undesirable" groups from exercising voting rights . "
YOU SEE, AMERICA'S RACE PROBLEM AND AMERICA'S BIGOTS AND ELITISTS WERE HERE BEFORE THE CONSTITUTION, AND REMAIN IN GREATER NUMBERS TODAY.
THE RECENT NEWS STORIES OF LEAKED OR UNCOVERED RACIST EMAILS AMONG LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, JUDGES, COURT STAFF, POLITICIANS, WALL STREET ELITE, ETC, MAKE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT RACIAL TENSION, AND BIGOTRY IS STILL A BIG PROBLEM IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW.
SOME PEOPLE WILL NEVER ACCEPT THAT "ALL ARE CREATED EQUAL".
YOU SEE, CITIZENS, OUR ELITIST FOUNDERS DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT AVERAGE CITIZEN HAD THE INTELLIGENCE TO ACTUALLY CAST A VOTE, SO THEY MADE A WAY TO SUBSTITUTE OUR VOTES FOR PRESIDENT FOR VOTES FOR AN "ELECTORAL COLLEGE", YOU KNOW, SMARTER FOLKS THAN WE ARE, OR MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, FOLKS WHO "PLAY BALL" BETTER THAN WE DO?
THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS ABSOLUTELY AND FULLY CAPABLE OF MAKING INFORMED CHICES TODAY OF WHICH MAN WE WANT TO HAVE OUR VOTES!
WE ARE NOT UNEDUCATED IDIOTS WHO NEED SOMEONE TO SPEAK FOR US!
THE DAMNED ELECTORAL COLLEGE IS SIMPLY AN ELITIST IDEA WHOSE REASONING IS WAY SHORT OF LOGICAL AND EVEN SHORTER ON NEED GIVEN THIS INCREDIBLE "INFORMATION AGE".
WE CAN FIND OUT ALL WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THOSE "RUNNING" FOR OFFICE WITH A FEW CLICKS ON THE COMPUTER, A FEW PHONE CALLS, A BROWSE THROUGH REAMS OF DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ONLINE.
WE ARE NOT IN NEED OF ANYONE ELSE CASTING VOTES FOR US, BUT CONGRESS WILL NOT RELINQUISH ITS GRIP ON FORCING US TO PUT OUR VOTES IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WE CANNOT COMPLETELY TRUST!
CONGRESS WANTS US TO BE SLAVES TO THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE!
SINCE I AM OF THE OPINION THAT THE REAL POWER IN AMERICA DOES NOT LIE WITHIN POLITICAL PARTIES, NOR IS THE REAL POWER OUR PRESIDENT, OUR CONGRESS, OUR CORRUPT JUDICIAL SYSTEM, NOR EVEN OUR MILITARY, BUT CAN SEE THE RULING ELEMENT DOES CONTROL SAID ENTITIES, IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO SATISFY MY NEED TO DISCOVER WHO IS BEHIND THIS INCREDIBLE PUSH TO STOP QUALIFIED AMERICAN CITIZENS FROM VOTING.
PROPAGANDA, PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIPULATION, AND FEAR ARE SOME FINE TOOLS WITH WHICH "VOTE-STOPPERS" BEND MINDS, CHANGE OUR VERY THOUGHT PROCESSES, AND HERD US TOWARD "GROUP-THINK", IF WE ALLOW IT TO.
NOWHERE ARE THOSE CUNNING TOOLS MORE USED THAN WITHIN THE TWO POLITICAL PARTIES.
THE TWO HERDS.
THE "RED FLOCK" AND THE "BLUE FLOCK".
THESE TOOLS ARE TOO OFTEN NOT RECOGNIZED AS TOOLS OF MISINFORMATION, AS DEVICES EMPLOYED TO SHIFT OUR FOCUS AWAY FROM WHAT IS REALLY WRONG HERE IN AMERICA ONTO MATTERS THAT ARE AS OLD AS TIME AND OFTEN USED TO SWAY NATIONS, PEOPLE, TO DRIVE US LIKE SHEEP OR CATTLE TOWARD WAYS OF THINKING WE WOULD LIKELY NEVER FORMULATE FOR OURSELVES.
BUT...WHEN WE CHOOSE TO ATTACH OURSELVES TO ANY GROUP (aka, HERD) WE TEND TO GO ALONG WITH GROUP OR HERD MENTALITY IN ORDER TO "FIT IN", IN ORDER TO FEEL A SENSE OF BELONGING.
SOCIETIES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FORMED BASED ON MOST HUMANS' INABILITY OR UNWILLINGNESS TO EXIST SINGULARLY, OR IN VERY TINY UNITS.
'CIVILIZATIONS' HAVE BEEN BUILT ON MAN'S NEED FOR OTHERS TO TELL HIM WHICH WAY TO GO, WHAT IS BEST FOR HIM, HOW HE SHOULD BEHAVE IN ORDER TO BECOME AND REMAIN PART OF THE LARGER HERD.
MEN HAVE BEEN WILLING TO SACRIFICE A LOT OF FREEDOM TO JUST "FIT IN", TO SIMPLY "BELONG".
IT IS UNFORTUNATE, BUT IT IS THE TRUTH.
"NO MAN IS AN ISLAND", WE'RE TOLD.
REALLY?
WHO ELSE COMES OUT OF THE WOMB WITH US OR GOES INTO A GRAVE WITH US?
YES, WE ARE ISLANDS.
WE ARE BORN AND EVEN THE UMBILICAL CORD THAT ATTACHED US TO THE NOURISHMENT THAT SUSTAINED US FOR 9 MONTHS IS CUT.
WE HAVE LEFT THE ONE PERSON BEHIND WHO EVER COULD BE CALLED A TRULY NECESSARY PART OF US.
NO MOM, NO LIFE.
BUT WE DO SEVER THE TIE WITH MOTHER AND WE DO BECOME AN ISLAND.
WE MUST.
WE MUST GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AS INDIVIDUALS.
AND, IF WE ARE WISE, INDIVIDUALISM CAN AND WILL SUSTAIN US QUITE WELL, SANS ANY HERD.
BEING A PART OF A HUGE GROUP, A LARGE HERD, A MASSIVE FLOCK IS A LEARNED BEHAVIOR.
OUR HUMAN MINDS ARE WELL EQUIPPED FOR SOLITUDE.
ONE HUMAN'S NEEDS ARE EASIER TO PROVIDE FOR THAN 2 OR 3 OR 6 BILLION.
A SOLITARY HUMAN HAS NO STRESS CAUSED BY DISAGREEMENTS WITH OTHER HUMANS.
IT IS THE STRANGE DRIVE FOR 'COMPANIONSHIP' WHICH BEGINS TO GROW WITHIN US AN EVER-INCREASING DESIRE FOR BECOMING A HERD ANIMAL.
CERTAINLY, PRESERVATION OF THE SPECIES DEMANDS THAT SOME OF US SEEK AND FIND A MATE, PROCREATE, CONTINUE THE LINE OF HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS.
NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT!
BUT, ODDLY, EVEN WITH A MATE AND OFFSPRING,THE VAST MAJORITY BEGIN TO BRANCH OUT, REACH OUT, FEEL ABOUT FOR OTHERS TO ASSOCIATE WITH, TO FORM ALLIANCES WITH, TO CREATE THAT OLD "SAFETY IN NUMBERS" FEELING, TO "FEEL LESS ALONE".
WHAT MOST FAIL TO SEE IS HOW THAT CAN BE USED AGAINST US!
ENTER POLITICAL PARTIES, AND ALL THE PROPAGANDA THAT GOES WITH THEM, TO PIT ONE HERD AGAINST ANOTHER HERD.
IN THE BATTLE, THE CIVIL WAR CREATED BY POLITICAL PARTIES, BOTH HERDS MAY JUST WIND UP GOING OVER THE CLIFF IN THE ONE-UPMANSHIP BRAWL TO BE "TOP DOG".
THE DEEP DESIRE OF BOTH PARTIES TO WIN, WIN, WIN HAS LED TO EVEN CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, THE NIXON ERA WATERGATE SCANDAL BEING BUT ONE EXAMPLE.
IT SEEMS THAT SPENDING MILLIONS, OR BILLIONS, AS IS THE CASE OF THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, JUST IS NOT PRODUCING THE DESIRED RESULTS FOR SOME WHO SEEK TO OWN AMERICA BY OWNING THE POLITICIANS THEY SO "GENEROUSLY" FUND EACH CAMPAIGN.
THE BIG DONORS PLACE THEIR BETS ON ONE CANDIDATE (OR SPLIT THE CAMPAIGN PAYOLA BETWEEN THE TWO TO HEDGE THEIR BETS) AND ATTACK THE VOTING PUBLIC, ASSAILING US ON TV, ON RADIO, IN NEWSPAPERS, BY BILLBOARDS TO VOTE FOR THIS ONE, THAT ONE, AND APPLY THE GREATEST WEAPON OF ALL IN THEIR ARSENAL...FEAR...FEAR OF WHAT HORRORS WILL BEFALL US IF THE "OTHER GUY" GETS ELECTED.
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND RUIN SEEMS TO BE A GUARANTEED FEAR PUSHED BY BOTH SIDES TO WHIP US INTO A FRENZY TO GO VOTE FOR A "SAVIOR", SOME MIRACLE MAN WHO WILL PUT AMERICA BACK ON THE ROAD TO POSTERITY, MAYBE EVEN PUT TWO CHICKENS IN EVERY POT!
EACH SIDE SHOWS US WHAT A TRAITOR TO GOOD OLD "AMERICAN VALUES" THE OTHER GUY IS, MUD IS SLUNG FROM ALL DIRECTIONS, THE "TERRORIST THREAT" IS TOSSED IN FOR GOOD MEASURE, AS IN WHICH "CANDIDATE" WILL PROTECT US FROM THE BOOGEYMEN OUT THERE...SAME OLD, SAME OLD, REPEATED, SOLD, SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS ANY WAY THE REAL POWER CAN GET IT INTO US.
LIKE OLD SNAKE OIL SALESMEN THEY TRY TO DRAW US IN:
"BUY OUR PRODUCT...THIS POLITICIAN! HE'LL CURE WHAT AILS THIS COUNTRY!"
I'VE SEEN EVERY PRESIDENT SINCE EISENHOWER COME AND GO, AND EACH ONE HAS WON ON LIES AND EMPTY PROMISES AND AMERICA IS STEADILY IN DECLINE...HAVEN'T YOU NOTICED?
I'VE WATCHED THEM ALL SINCE 1950 AND I'VE WATCHED AMERICA BECOME MORE HATED ABROAD AFTER EACH ONE LEFT OFFICE, HAVEN'T YOU?
THE ONE AND ONLY "CHANGE" WE CAN POSSIBLY SEE AFTER EACH ONE GOES HOME OR DIES IS THAT AMERICA, AND THEREFORE WE, ARE WORSE OFF THAN BEFORE.
NO MATTER WHICH "PARTY" WINS, WE ARE WORSE OFF AFTERWARDS.
DOESN'T THAT TELL YOU ANYTHING?
IT TELLS ME PLENTY!
AFTER AMERICA WAS FINALLY FORMED, IT WAS UNDERSTOOD THAT AMERICAN CITIZENS, ALL "ELIGIBLE CITIZENS", HAD A RIGHT TO VOTE, WHETHER THE CONSTITUTION EXPLICITLY STATED THAT OR NOT.
IT TOOK MANY YEARS FOR THAT GROUP CALLED ELIGIBLE CITIZENS TO INCLUDE FORMER SLAVES, WOMEN, OR THE AMERICAN INDIAN PEOPLE.
THE FIGHT TO VOTE WAS DEEMED TO BE ENDED WHEN ALL THE ABOVE WERE ALLOWED THE VOTE.
NOT SO!
NOW, A NEW FIGHT LOOMS, ONE THAT AMERICA'S POOR, HER "COLOREDS", HER ELDERLY, HER RURAL FOLKS, HER STUDENTS, AND EVEN HER MILITARY OVERSEAS MUST FIGHT EACH ELECTION SO THEIR VOTE CAN BE CAST AND THEN COUNTED.
ON THIS ISSUE OF RESTRICTING THE VOTE, THE ATLANTIC SAID IT QUITE WELL:
"Neither the American people nor the federal courts would tolerate restrictions of this sort if they were imposed on free speech, free assembly, freedom of religion, or freedom to petition government for redress of grievances.
For that matter, many Southern states--and probably a majority of the Supreme Court--would reject far less onerous restrictions on the right to "keep and bear arms." Yet each of those rights is mentioned only once in the Constitution.
The "right to vote" is mentioned five times--and yet the Court has brushed it aside as a privilege that states may observe at their convenience.
Even an overwhelming majority of Congress--which is given the power to enforce the right in no fewer than four different places in the Constitution--cannot protect this right more strongly than the Court feels appropriate."
WHY THIS NEW BATTLE TO PREVENT SOME FROM VOTING?
BECAUSE A LITTLE LESS THAN HALF OF AMERICA VOTES REPUBLICAN.
BECAUSE ONE ELITIST GROUP OF RACIST, BIGOTED CONTROL FREAKS WANTS TO WIN ELECTIONS, AND THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN SEE TO WIN IS BY KEEPING HALF OF AMERICA AWAY FROM THE POLLS.
I AM 100% AGAINST A TWO-PARTY OR ANY PARTY VOTING SYSTEM, BUT REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS HAVE BECOME TYRANTS!
LAST ELECTION, THEY SPENT A COOL BILLION AND LOST...AGAIN.
I BELIEVE THEY WILL DO ANYTHING FROM THIS POINT ON TO WIN.
LET'S LOOK AT THE BARRIERS ALREADY IN PLACE TO KEEP "CERTAIN" AMERICANS OUT SO THAT THE "RIGHT MAN" CAN WIN.
REMEMBER, THE U.S. CONSTITUTION / BILL OF RIGHTS NEVER IMPOSED VOTER IDENTIFICATION ON U.S. CITIZENS.
24 voting restrictions have passed in 17 states since 2011.
This fall, new laws could affect more than 5 million voters in states representing 179 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
This fall, new laws could affect more than 5 million voters in states representing 179 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
In the past two years, 5 battleground states (Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) have tightened their voting laws.
As of April, 2012, 74 restrictive voting laws were on the table in 24 states.
Since 2011, 34 states have introduced laws requiring voters to show photo ID,and 9 states have passed photo ID laws, affecting 3.8 million voters.
2.2 million registered voters did not vote in 2008 because they didn't have proper ID.
THAT MEANS 2.2 MILLION PEOPLE WHO COULD HAVE VOTED WERE BARRED FROM VOTING.
THE "RIGHT MAN" PARTY CANCELLED OVER 2 MILLION VOTES.
In 2008, more than 1/3 of voters cast ballots before Election Day.
In 2011, 5 states passed bills to restrict early voting.
THAT MEANS MILLIONS MORE CAN BE ELIMINATED BY THE "RIGHT MAN" TEAM.
Last year, 12 states introduced laws requiring birth certificates or other proof of citizenship to vote; 3 passed.
Only 48 percent of women have a birth certificate with their current legal name on it.
THAT MEANS PERHAPS MILLIONS MORE CAN BE ELIMINATED FROM GOING TO THE POLLS BY THE "RIGHT MAN" PARTY.
THAT MEANS PERHAPS MILLIONS MORE CAN BE ELIMINATED FROM GOING TO THE POLLS BY THE "RIGHT MAN" PARTY.
Texas' new ID law permits voters to use concealed-handgun licenses as proof of identity, but not state university IDs.
THAT WILL ELIMINATE THOUSANDS OF TEXAS COLLEGE STUDENTS FROM CASTING VOTES, STUDENTS WHO PERHAPS WOULDN'T VOTE FOR THE "RIGHT MAN".
States with Election Day registration have 7 to 12 percent greater turnout than states without.
Last year, 5 states introduced bills that eliminate Election Day registration.
THAT MEANS MORE MILLIONS WILL BE DISENFRANCHISED UNLESS THEY REGISTER BEFORE ELECTIONS.
AMERICANS OVERSEAS MIGHT MISS THOSE NEW DEADLINES.
THEY MAY HAVE NOT VOTED FOR THE "RIGHT MAN", SO WHO CARES?
12 percent of minority voters report registering through voter drives, twice the rate of white voters.
In 2011, Florida and Texas passed laws making registration drives much harder to organize.
WELL, WE KNOW THOSE MINORITIES DIDN'T VOTE FOR THE "RIGHT MAN", SO, AGAIN, WHO CARES?
In support of a voter ID law, Kansas Secretary of State (and the legal brains behind a slew of anti-immigration laws) Kris Kobach cited 221 incidents of voter fraud in the state between 1997 and 2010.
221 TOTAL INCIDENTS OF ANY TYPE OF FRAUD IN 13 YEARS!
Yet those cases produced just 7 convictions—none related to impersonating other voters.
7 ACTUAL CONVICTIONS IN 13 YEARS!
VOTER I.D. LAWS ARE CREATED JUST TO STOP ANYONE FROM IMPERSONATING ANOTHER VOTER...THE END...THAT'S ALL A VOTER I.D. CAN DO...SHOW PROOF THAT YOU ARE WHOM YOU CLAIM TO BE!
SO VOTER I.D. WOULD HAVE PREVENTED 7 IN KANSAS FROM DOING THAT...7 OUT OF MANY MILLIONS OF VOTES OVER THAT 13 YEAR PERIOD!
JUST 7!
THAT IS NOT "RAMPANT VOTER FRAUD"!
221 TOTAL INCIDENTS OF ANY TYPE OF FRAUD IN 13 YEARS!
Yet those cases produced just 7 convictions—none related to impersonating other voters.
7 ACTUAL CONVICTIONS IN 13 YEARS!
VOTER I.D. LAWS ARE CREATED JUST TO STOP ANYONE FROM IMPERSONATING ANOTHER VOTER...THE END...THAT'S ALL A VOTER I.D. CAN DO...SHOW PROOF THAT YOU ARE WHOM YOU CLAIM TO BE!
SO VOTER I.D. WOULD HAVE PREVENTED 7 IN KANSAS FROM DOING THAT...7 OUT OF MANY MILLIONS OF VOTES OVER THAT 13 YEAR PERIOD!
JUST 7!
THAT IS NOT "RAMPANT VOTER FRAUD"!
Last December, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus declared that Wisconsin is"absolutely riddled with voter fraud."
HE ALSO LIED!
In fact, the state's voter fraud rate was 0.0002 percent—just 7 votes.
"ABSOLUTELY RIDDLED"? 7?
HE ALSO LIED!
In fact, the state's voter fraud rate was 0.0002 percent—just 7 votes.
"ABSOLUTELY RIDDLED"? 7?
In 2008, John McCain said fraudulent registrations collected by ACORN were "one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy."
The Congressional Research Service found no proof that anyone improperly registered by ACORN tried to vote.
THEY DID NOT FIND ONE INSTANCE OF FRAUDULENT REGISTRATION AND THEY REALLY LOOKED HARD FOR OLD McCAIN!
The Congressional Research Service found no proof that anyone improperly registered by ACORN tried to vote.
THEY DID NOT FIND ONE INSTANCE OF FRAUDULENT REGISTRATION AND THEY REALLY LOOKED HARD FOR OLD McCAIN!
Federal convictions for election fraud, FOR ALL YEARS TOTAL 2002-05?
- Voting while ineligible: 18
- Voting multiple times: 5
- Registration fraud: 3
STUDY AFTER STUDY, GOVERNMENT STATISTICS, NEWS ARTICLES GIVING US THE FACTS, THE TRUTH, ALL COMBINED JUST DOES NOT STOP THE GOP FROM HARPING ON AND LYING ABOUT THIS ONE THING.
NO, VIRGINIA, NO, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A HUGE VOTER FRAUD IN AMERICA.
NO, IT IS NOT RAMPANT, NOR IS THERE ANY DANGER IT WILL EVER BE!
YOU SEE, ALL THOSE VOTER FRAUD NUMBERS UP THERE WERE ACTUALLY CAUGHT BY THE SYSTEM WE ALREADY HAVE IN PLACE TO VERIFY ELIGIBLE VOTERS!
YES, EVERY ONE CITED WAS CAUGHT BY WHAT WE CURRENTLY RELY ON TO FILTER OUT INELIGIBLE VOTERS!
HOW DID YOU THINK THOSE INELIGIBLE VOTERS WERE CAUGHT?
VOODOO?
CRYSTAL BALL GAZING?
NO!
BY THE CURRENT SYSTEM!
IT WORKS REALLY, REALLY WELL!
HOW CAN WE BE SURE?
WOULD FEDERAL/STATE/LOCAL GOVERNMENTS' STATISTICS CONVINCE YOU?
HOW ABOUT STUDIES BY UNIVERSITIES?
WATCH-DOG GROUPS MAYBE?
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM?
THE COURTS?
ALL OF THOSE HAVE PROVEN HOW FEW CASES OF VOTER FRAUD WE HAVE IN AMERICA OVER THE PAST MANY DECADES!
WANT TO SEE SOME WAYS YOU'VE BEEN LIED TO?
GO READ MY BLOG ABOUT THE END OF VOTING IN AMERICA.
TALK ABOUT DIRTY TRICKS!
LOOK AT ALL THE SUDDEN "POLLING PLACE PROBLEMS" ONLY THOSE WHO MIGHT HAVE VOTED DEMOCRAT FACED!
SHAMEFUL!
NO AMERICAN SHOULD SIT IDLY BY AND WATCH FELLOW AMERICANS BE EXCLUDED FROM ELECTION DAY, EVEN IF WE'RE ONLY VOTING FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE!
http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2014/12/no-more-voting-in-america.html
{PSSST! You wouldn't have fallen for any lies if you just took the time to check for facts, went to the actual source, seen for yourselves.]
A VIRAL EMAIL WAS CIRCULATED AMONGST THE "RIGHT MAN" FOLKS LAST ELECTION THAT ALLEGED:
"100% OF VOTERS IN 21 DISTRICTS VOTED FOR OBAMA IN WOOD COUNTY, OHIO. THIS IS MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE! MORE VOTES WERE CAST THAN THERE ARE REGISTERED VOTERS! 106,258 VOTED BUT ONLY 98,213 WERE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE THERE!"
Terry Burton, director of the Wood County Board of Elections, doesn’t know why fabricated claims about votes in Wood County, Ohio, are swirling around the Internet.
“The misrepresentations of the outcome of the 2012 elections … continue to be [a] mystery and a point of frustration to our office,” he said.
"The actual results are plainly available on our website.”
Obama garnered 51.21 percent of the vote overall in the county.
“The random accusations which continue to be made regarding Wood County are untrue,” says Burton. “No candidate received 100% of the vote in any precinct in Wood County, no precinct officials were removed during Election Day and no issues were identified during a recount and/or the required state audit.”
Once again, the figures in the email are completely off base.
"In St. Lucie County, FL, there were 175,574 registered eligible voters but 247,713 votes were cast.
The National SEAL Museum, a polling location in St. Lucie County, FL had a 158% voter turnout."
LIES!
MANIPULATIONS!
St. Lucie election board documents show that 249,095 “cards” were cast, and registered voters totaled 175,554.
But the supervisor of elections website explains that a “card” is one page, and the full “ballot” contained two pages. Total cards are not double the number of voters, as not every voter cast both pages (or “cards”).
St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections website: Note* — Turnout percentages will show over 100% due to a two page ballot.
The tabulation system (GEMS) provides voter turnout as equal to the total cards cast in the election divided by the number of registered voters.
Also note that some voters chose not to return by mail the second card containing the amendments.
A more detailed document of the county’s votes cast shows total “votes” at 123,301.
The "right man" author made the same mistake with “cards” versus “ballots” in claiming that the National SEAL Museum polling site had a “158% voter turnout.”
NOT TRUE.
ABSOLUTE FALLACY.
Of the jurisdiction’s 2,756 registered voters, 2,243 votes were cast, according to the Supervisor of Elections’ official results.
A total of 4,469 “cards” were cast of the two-page ballot.
Obama, by the way, got 33.62 percent of the vote at that SEAL Museum polling location.
TAKE ANY OR ALL SUCH ACCUSATIONS OF VOTER FRAUD THAT YOU CAN RECALL, THEN GO TO THE PUBLIC WEBSITES OF EACH STATE THAT SHOW VOTER REGISTRATION AND VOTER TURNOUT, EVEN GO DISTRICT-BY-DISTRICT, AND SEE HOW MANY LIES THE "RIGHT MAN" GANG TOLD ITS FOLLOWERS.
IT'S A REMARKABLE STUDY!
IT'S A REMARKABLE STUDY!
YOU SEE, THE MANIPULATORS AND LIARS KNOW YOU WON'T GO LOOK FOR YOURSELVES!
THEY'VE DONE A GREAT JOB DUMBING AMERICANS DOWN SO THEY ARE DEPENDENT ON THE "PARTY HIERARCHY" FOR FACTS.
THEY'VE DONE A GREAT JOB DUMBING AMERICANS DOWN SO THEY ARE DEPENDENT ON THE "PARTY HIERARCHY" FOR FACTS.
AND WASN'T IT A ROMNEY GUY WHO SCREAMED AT MEMBERS OF THE PRESS THAT THEY HATE WEBSITES LIKE "POLITIFACTS AND FACTCHECK" BECAUSE
"WE DON'T CARE ABOUT FACTS!" ?
LEARN OR PERISH IN IGNORANCE, FOLKS!
BEFORE WE GO BACK TO OUR LIVES, LET'S EXAMINE 3 REALLY BIG LIES, OR "MYTHS" ASSOCIATED WITH THIS VOTER I.D. NECESSITY THING.
MYTH 1~ PEOPLE IMPERSONATE OTHER PEOPLE, EVEN DEAD PEOPLE IN ORDER TO VOTE.
MYTH 2~ DAMNED ILLEGALS ARE VOTING.
MYTH 3~ THE CURRENT SYSTEM DOESN'T CATCH VOTER FRAUD.
Republican state legislatures, prompted by the Republican Party hierarchy, have been busy devising all manner of creative ways to make voting more difficult for traditionally Democratic-leaning groups.
Belief in voter impersonation is strongest among Republicans, echoing claims made by elites in their party.
Thirty-six percent of Republicans think voter impersonation affects a few thousand or more votes, compared with 20 percent of independents and just 7 percent of Democrats.
There is overwhelming governmental, scholarly and legal consensus that voter fraud is vanishingly RARE, and in fact non-existent at the levels imagined by voter ID proponents within the GOP.
That hasn't stopped many Republican lawmakers from crying "fraud" every time they're faced with an unfavorable election outcome.
IT ENRAGES THEM WHEN THEY LOSE!
THEY NEVER CRY FOUL ABOUT ANYTHING IF THEY WIN!
THEY ALSO DON'T LIKE IT WHEN THE DEMOCRATS SUGGEST FRAUD ON THE PART OF THE GOP!
HYPOCRITICAL MUCH?
1~ FEDERAL, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING OFFICE (GAO)
"The costs and requirements to obtain certain forms of ID, including a driver's license, state ID, or free state ID, vary by state. GAO identified direct costs for these forms of ID in 17 states that require voters to present a photo or government-issued ID at the polls and do not allow voters to affirm their own identities, and found that driver's license direct costs, for example, range from $14.50 to $58.50
GAO analyzed three sources of data on turnout among eligible and registered voters, including data from official voter records and a nationwide survey.
GAO's evaluation of voter turnout suggests that turnout decreased in two selected states—Kansas and Tennessee—from the 2008 to the 2012 general elections (the two most recent general elections) to a greater extent than turnout decreased in the selected comparison states—Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, and Maine.
GAO's analysis suggests that the turnout decreases in Kansas and Tennessee beyond decreases in the comparison states were attributable to changes in those two states' voter ID requirements.
GAO found that turnout among eligible and registered voters declined more in Kansas and Tennessee than it declined in comparison states—by an estimated 1.9 to 2.2 percentage points more in Kansas and 2.2 to 3.2 percentage points more in Tennessee—and the results were consistent across the different data sources and voter populations used in the analysis.
Based on GAO's review of studies by academics and others and information from federal and state agencies, GAO identified various challenges in information available for estimating the incidence of in-person voter fraud that make it difficult to determine a complete picture of such fraud.
First, the studies GAO reviewed identified few instances of in-person voter fraud, but contained limitations in, for example, the completeness of information sources used.
Second, no single source or database captures the universe of allegations or cases of in-person voter fraud across federal, state, and local levels, in part because responsibility for addressing election fraud is shared among federal, state, and local authorities.
Third, federal and state agencies vary in the extent they collect information on election fraud in general and in-person voter fraud in particular, making it difficult to estimate the incidence of in-person voter fraud."
[ABOVE QUOTED FROM GAO WEBSITE http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-634]
2~INDIVIDUAL STATES
HOW FEW WERE TRIED OR CONVICTED OF I.D. FRAUD?
THE NUMBERS ARE LAUGHABLE!
A two-year investigation by Iowa's Republican secretary of state found evidence of 117 possible fraudulent votes BUT led to just six - 6 - criminal convictions.
[SEE: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-politics/2014/05/08/iowa-secretary-of-state-voter-fraud-report-matt-schultz/8858595/ ]
In 2011, a Wisconsin task force found sufficient evidence to charge 20 people with fraudulent voting in the 2008 elections.
Most of these were FELONS who were ineligible to vote.
[SEE: http://badgerherald.com/news/2011/02/01/doj-task-force-charg/#.U71R741dUq9 ]
Kansas' secretary of state examined 84 million votes cast in 22 states to look for duplicate registrants.
In the end 14 cases were referred for prosecution, representing 0.00000017 percent of the votes cast.
[SEE: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:O4MXrVTbtxAJ: https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/09/SOS-Kris-Kobach-PCEA-Presentation.pptx+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us ]
A 10-year 'death audit' in North Carolina turned up a grand total of 50 instances in which a vote may have been attributed to a deceased person, most likely due to errors made by precinct workers.
[SEE: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/04/02/3753199/nc-election-officials-identify.html ]
COURT RULINGS, WHAT DO THE COURTS SAY?
THAT SORT OF DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH BIG, REALLY BIG MONEY FINANCES COURT CASES, HOW MUCH ONE PARTY VERSUS THE OTHER PARTY CAN SCRAPE UP TO BEAT THE SOCKS OFF THE OTHER SIDE.
In striking down Wisconsin's voter ID law this spring, district judge Lynn Adelman wrote "The evidence at trial established that virtually no voter impersonation occurs in Wisconsin. The defendants could not point to a single instance of known voter impersonation occurring in Wisconsin at any time in the recent past."
TEXAS' VOTER I.D. RULE WAS STRUCK DOWN TWICE AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL BEFORE IT PASSED.
BIG MONEY CAME TO THE RESCUE AND THE "THIRD TIME WAS CHARMED", SCORE FOR THE GUYS WITH THE MOST MEGA-BUCKS!
SCHOLARLY INVESTIGATIONS, SAME RESULTS, AGAIN AND AGAIN
Loyola Law School studies, as well as numerous others, performed a wide-ranging analysis of alleged incidents of voter fraud across the U.S.
"Usually, only a tiny portion of the claimed illegality is substantiated — and most of the remainder is either nothing more than speculation or has been conclusively debunked."
Lorraine Minnite of Columbia University concludes that voter fraud is exceedingly rare, and that the few allegations in the record usually turn out to be something other than voter fraud: "a review of news stories over a recent two year period found that reports of voter fraud were most often limited to local races and individual acts and fell into three categories: unsubstantiated or false claims by the loser of a close race, mischief and administrative or voter error."
AND THIS WAS ALSO UNCOVERED BY MINNITE:
"In 95 percent of so-called 'cemetery voting' alleged in the 2010 midterm election in South Carolina, human error accounts for nearly all of what the state's highest law enforcement official had informed the U.S. Department of Justice was fraud."
[SEE: The Politics of Voter Fraud, by Lorraine Minnite]
AN Arizona State University study analyzed 2,068 alleged fraud cases from 2000 to 2012 and found a total of 10 cases of alleged voter impersonation.
10 CASES IN 12 LONG YEARS!
They found that "while fraud has occurred, the rate is infinitesimal, and in-person voter impersonation on Election Day, which prompted 37 state legislatures to enact or consider tough voter ID laws, is virtually non-existent."
EVEN ARIZONA ADMITS THE RAMPANT FRAUD IS A MYTH!
John Ahlquist and Kenneth R. Mayer of the University of Wisconsin, and Simon Jackman of Stanford conducted a survey experiment "to measure the prevalence of two specific types of voter fraud: repeat/fraudulent ballot casting and vote buying." Their conclusion: "The notion that voter impersonation is a widespread behavior is totally contradicted by these data."
[http://users.polisci.wisc.edu/behavior/Papers/AhlquistMayerJackman2013.pdf]
Delia Bailey of the Washington University in St. Louis unearthed only nine federal election fraud cases occurring between 2000 and 2005.
9 IN 5 YEARS...DO THE MATH!
[SEE: Caught in the Act: Recent Federal Election Fraud Cases, by Delia Bailey]
'They Just Do Not Vote Like They Used To: A Methodology to Empirically Assess Election Fraud', by M.V. Hood III of the University of Georgia and William Gillespie of Kennesaw State University.
"After examining approximately 2.1 million votes cast during the 2006 general election in Georgia, we find NO evidence that election fraud was committed under the auspices of deceased registrants."
NO, DEAD PEOPLE DID NOT VOTE IN GEORGIA, SO YOU WERE FOOLED AGAIN!
[http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/facpubs/2165/]
MAINSTREAM MEDIA NEWS INVESTIGATIONS
(MAINSTREAM MEDIA INVESTIGATES WHAT THEIR OWNERS TELL THEM TO INVESTIGATE AND THE OWNERS OF EACH OF OUR MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES ARE VERY DEDICATED TO ONE PARTY OR THE OTHER.
THERE IS NO UNBIASED MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES IN THE UNITED STATES!)
In an exhaustive public records search, News21 reporters sent thousands of requests to elections officers in all 50 states, asking for every case of fraudulent activity including registration fraud, absentee ballot fraud, vote buying, false election counts, campaign fraud, casting an ineligible vote, voting twice, voter impersonation fraud and intimidation.
[NOTE: News21 is a program of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation]
Analysis of the resulting comprehensive News21 election fraud database turned up 10 cases of voter impersonation.
10 CASES?
IS THAT "RAMPANT VOTER I.D. FRAUD?
HELL NO!
10 CASES?
IS THAT "RAMPANT VOTER I.D. FRAUD?
HELL NO!
With 146 million registered voters in the United States during that time, those 10 cases represent one out of about every 15 million prospective voters.
INSIGNIFICANT...ACTUAL NUMBERS WOULD NOT CHANGE ELECTION OUTCOME
“Voter fraud at the polls is an insignificant aspect of American elections,” said elections expert David Schultz, professor of public policy at Hamline University School of Business in St. Paul, Minn.
“There is absolutely no evidence that (voter impersonation fraud) has affected the outcome of any election in the United States, at least any recent election in the United States,” Schultz said.
The News21 analysis of its election fraud database shows:
In-person voter-impersonation fraud is rare.
The database shows 207 cases of other types of fraud for every case of voter impersonation.
NEW YORK TIMES
The New York Times examined five years of Justice Department records and turned up only 26 TOTAL convictions of fraud by individual voters.
BUT MANY WERE RULED "MISTAKES", NOT INTENTIONAL FRAUD!
MANY OTHERS WERE SIMPLY CASES OF VOTE-BUYING, WHICH VOTER I.D. LAWS ADMITTEDLY CANNOT STOP!
IF SOMEONE WANTS TO SELL THEIR VOTES AND OTHERS WANT TO BUY THEM, FLASHING AN I.D. AT AN ELECTION OFFICIAL DOES NOT STOP THAT!
BUT MANY WERE RULED "MISTAKES", NOT INTENTIONAL FRAUD!
MANY OTHERS WERE SIMPLY CASES OF VOTE-BUYING, WHICH VOTER I.D. LAWS ADMITTEDLY CANNOT STOP!
IF SOMEONE WANTS TO SELL THEIR VOTES AND OTHERS WANT TO BUY THEM, FLASHING AN I.D. AT AN ELECTION OFFICIAL DOES NOT STOP THAT!
"Many of those charged by the Justice Department appear to have mistakenly filled out registration forms or misunderstood eligibility rules."
And many of the cases were "linked to small vote-buying schemes in which candidates, generally in sheriff’s or judge’s races, paid voters for their support."
Overall, the Times concluded that "the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections."
MYTH 1: Voter Impersonation Fraud Is A Major Problem
IT'S RAMPANT!
FACT: There Is No Evidence Of Massive Voter Impersonation Fraud.
ELECTION OFFICIALS IN EACH STATE HAVE ADMITTED THIS AND MAKE PUBLIC RECORD OF EACH ELECTION OUTCOME!
Voter Impersonation is "Virtually Non-Existent."
The New Yorker reported that experts agree that actual incidents of in-person voter fraud -- the type of voter fraud that strict voter ID laws can prevent -- are "virtually non-existent," and fears of voter fraud have been largely invented as a way to "excite the base." [The New Yorker, 10/29/12 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/29/the-voter-fraud-myth?currentPage=all ]
Brennan Center For Justice: Allegations Of Widespread Voter Fraud "Simply Do Not Pan Out."
The New York University School of Law's Brennan Center has repeatedly explained that in-person voter fraud is not a justification for strict voter ID laws, because voter impersonation is "more rare than getting struck by lightning," and allegations of widespread fraud typically "amount to a great deal of smoke without much fire" and "simply do not pan out."
[Brennan Center For Justice, 2007 http://brennan.3cdn.net/e20e4210db075b482b_wcm6ib0hl.pdf#page=5]
Loyola University Professor: Only 31 Out Of 1 Billion Ballots Subject To In-Person Voter Fraud.
Loyola University Law School professor Justin Levitt, who investigated "any specific, credible allegation" of voter impersonation fraud, found a total of "about 31 different incidents" since 2000 of in-person voter fraud out of over 1 billion ballots cast.
31 CASES IN 14 YEARS!
MYTH 2: Study Shows Huge Percentages Of Undocumented Immigrants Illegally Cast Votes
SURE, RIGHT, ILLEGALS ARE SO HUNGRY TO VOTE THEY'LL RISK DEPORTATION TO CAST ONE, RIGHT?
HOW STUPID IS THAT LIE?
HOW STUPID IS THAT LIE?
ONE, JUST ONE, "STUDY" FUNDED BY THE KOCH BROTHERS (THOSE CRAZY RIGHT-WING FANATICS) RAISED ANY CONCERNS OVER ILLEGALS VOTING.
ONE "STUDY".
(PLEASE, I BEG YOU, ALWAYS LOOK FOR WHO FUNDED THESE POLLS AND STUDIES! FOLLOW THE MONEY BACK TO ITS SOURCE!)
(PLEASE, I BEG YOU, ALWAYS LOOK FOR WHO FUNDED THESE POLLS AND STUDIES! FOLLOW THE MONEY BACK TO ITS SOURCE!)
LET'S THINK...IF YOU WERE AN ILLEGAL, WOULD YOU SHOW UP AT A POLLING PLACE TO CAST YOUR ILLEGAL VOTE, RISKING DEPORTATION?
WOULD VOTING BE MORE IMPORTANT TO YOU THAN STAYING IN AMERICA?
BESIDES THE FACT THAT ILLEGALS STRUGGLE TO REMAIN IN AMERICA AND FEAR DEPORTATION EVERY DAY, THE AUTHORS OF THE STUDY THEMSELVES, AFTER QUESTIONING, ADMIT THE "STUDY" INVOLVED A VERY 'MODEST' SAMPLING AND RELIED COMPLETELY ON 'SELF-REPORTING'.
WHAT?
THEY ONLY "SAMPLED" A FEW?
WHAT?
THEY ONLY "SAMPLED" A FEW?
Jessie Richman and David Earnest, two authors of the study, admitted that their "extrapolation to specific state-level or district-level election outcomes is fraught with substantial uncertainty." The authors noted that the non-citizen sample they examined was "modest" and relied on self-reporting, which can create errors, and attempts to verify the accuracy of the self-reporting was imperfect and supplemented by estimates.
YES, JUST ANOTHER PATHETIC DIRTY TRICK TO DISENFRANCHISE VOTERS WHOM THE GOP FEARS WILL VOTE DEMOCRAT.
FOX (OR FAUX) NEWS REPORTER Laura Ingraham claimed the names of 145 immigrants who received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status were proof of "voter manipulation, ballot fraud," and wondered if they showed "nefarious attempts to fraud the vote."
Ingraham speculated that the "illegal immigrants who are here under DACA," had been "fast track[ed] ... to voting."
WELL, LITTLE LAURA'S SHOW IS A PRODUCTION OF "COURTSIDE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP", SO MAYBE SHE WAS JUST TRYING TO ENTERTAIN?
FAIL...LUDICROUS, PITIFUL FAIL.
NO, LAURA, THOSE 145 DID NOT VOTE, WHICH YOU NOT ONLY FAILED TO MENTION, BUT WHICH SHOWS HOW WELL THE VOTER VERIFICATION SYSTEM WORKS!
THE DAY FAUX NEWS REPORTS ONLY TRUTH AND FACTS, THERE WILL BE SNOWBALL FIGHTS IN HADES!
MYTH 3: The current system doesn't catch voter fraud.
AND YET THE REPUBLICANS SCREAMING VOTER FRAUD GOT ALL THEIR STATS FROM THE CURRENT SYSTEM, THE SYSTEM THAT INDEED DISCOVERED THE FEW CASES THE GOP INFLATED!
FACT: The Discovery Of Potentially Ineligible Voters Is Proof That The Voter Verification System Works!
The current system caught every single one that the GOP has mentioned or can mention!
North Carolina Investigated Citizenship Of Flagged Voters And Is Implementing Formal "Challenge Process" To Prevent Ineligible Voters From Casting Ballots.
The North Carolina Board of Elections conducted an investigation to verify the eligibility of 10,000 registered voters who had been flagged as having "questionable citizenship status" using Department of Homeland Security and N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles data. The investigation identified 109 DACA recipients who were "on the voter rolls, but have not voted in any prior election," and is implementing a formal challenge process that will allow election officials to insure illegal voting doesn't occur.
[North Carolina State Board of Elections, 10/24/14, http://www.ncsbe.gov/ncsbe/press-releases?udt_2226_param_detail=15 ]
IF L'IL SILLY LAURA HAD DONE SOME HONEST REPORTING (DOES FAUX EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT IS?) SHE WOULD HAVE REPORTED THIS:
DHS: DACA Does Not Grant Citizenship, A Requirement For Voting. Undocumented immigrants who received DACA status were not granted citizenship nor any right to vote.
As the Department of Homeland Security states:
An individual who has received deferred action is authorized by DHS to be present in the United States, and is therefore considered by DHS to be lawfully present during the period deferred action is in effect.
However, deferred action does not confer lawful status upon an individual, nor does it excuse any previous or subsequent periods of unlawful presence.
However, deferred action does not confer lawful status upon an individual, nor does it excuse any previous or subsequent periods of unlawful presence.
[DHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 10/23/14 http://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-process/frequently-asked-questions ]
I'D SAY 'SHAME, SHAME ON FAUX NEWS', BUT THEY HAVE NO SHAME, OBVIOUSLY.
SO WHAT'S GOING ON?
D-I-S-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N !!!
PURE, SIMPLE DISCRIMINATION!
I MEAN ROMNEY AND OTHER GOP NOTABLES ARE QUOTED ALL OVER THE NEWS, THE INTERNET, STATING AGAIN AND AGAIN THINGS LIKE
"MOST BLACKS VOTE DEMOCRAT"
"MOST STUDENTS VOTE FOR THE SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS"
"MOST LATINOS VOTE DEMOCRAT"
"MOST OF THE ELDERLY SEEM TO CAST VOTES FOR DEMOCRATS"
"MOST OF AMERICA'S POOR VOTE FOR SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS SO THEY CAN KEEP GETTING SUBSIDIES."
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT?
IT IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY, ISN'T IT?
MAYBE NOT!
LAST I LOOKED, PEOPLE COULD VOTE FOR WHOMEVER THE PLEASE!
THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS DESIGNED!
VOTE YOUR CHOICE, AMERICA, RIGHT?
RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT...
Experts And Supreme Court Justices Agree Voter ID Laws Have Discriminatory Effects
"Mountains Of Evidence" Led To Federal Court Ruling That Texas Voter ID Law Was Discriminatory.
Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Brennan Center for Justice fellow Andrew Cohen noted that federal courts have TWICE found Texas' voter ID law to be racially discriminatory, both in intent and effect.
[NOTE: Justice Ginsburg wrote in dissent that there is ample proof Texas' voter ID law discriminates]
Although the Supreme Court allowed the law to be implemented for the midterm elections, there are "mountains of evidence on what the law's discriminatory impact would be on minority communities," Cohen said.
He argued that the law is "one of the most discriminatory voting laws in modern history," and "runs afoul of constitutional norms and reasonable standards of justice," and pointed to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissenting argument that "there was ample proof the Texas law discriminates, and no proof that it doesn't."
[Los Angeles Times, 10/22/14, http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1023-cohen-texas-voting-rights-20141023-story.html ]
GAO Report Found Decreased Turnout Among People Of Color Was Attributable To Voter ID Laws
Washington Post: "Turnout Dropped At Least 1.9 Percentage Points In Kansas And 2.2 Percentage Points In Tennessee Thanks To" Voter ID Laws.
As The Washington Post blog The Fix reported, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the potential effect of voter ID laws found that "Turnout dropped at least 1.9 percentage points in Kansas and 2.2 percentage points in Tennessee thanks to the laws," and that "Young people, black people, and newly registered voters were the groups that were more likely to see bigger drops in turnout."
[The Washington Post, The Fix, 10/9/14, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/10/09/gao-voter-id-laws-in-kansas-and-tennessee-dropped-2012-turnout-by-over-100000-votes/ ]
Brennan Center's Sundeep Iyer: Those Who Argue That Voter ID Laws Don't Impact Turnout Need "A Simple Statistics Lesson." As former Brennan Center for Justice quantitative analyst Sundeep Iyer explained, any claim that voter ID laws don't affect minority turnout ignores "Statistics 101".
Citing the Georgia statistics in a see-this-couldn't-be-that-bad sort of way has become a central talking point among proponents of voter ID laws.
Once again, these proponents have mistaken simple correlation for causation. You don't need to be a statistician to know that without controlling for other factors that might influence turnout, the assertion that Georgia's voter ID requirement didn't depress turnout is meaningless -- at best unscientific, at worst just plain wrong.
[Brennan Center For Justice, 7/6/11, http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/voter-id-supporters-need-statistics-101]
IT IS WRONG.
THE MYTHS ARE ALL WRONG/
THE LIES ARE WRONG.
THE WAY ONE PARTY IS WILLING TO SHUT-OUT MILLIONS OF AMERICAN VOTERS IS WRONG.
THE WAY OTHER MILLIONS OF VOTERS DON'T SEEM TO MIND IS WRONG.
RACISM IS WRONG.
ELITISM IS WRONG.
BIGOTRY IS WRONG.
THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM IS WRONG....LOOK WHAT IT'S CREATED!
IF YOU EXPECT AND WANT YOUR VOTE TO COUNT, CAN'T YOU IMAGINE THAT THIS IS ALSO THE HOPE OF ALL VOTING CITIZENS?
IF WE SINCERELY WANTED ALL ELIGIBLE CITIZENS TO VOTE, WE COULD EASILY AND CHEAPLY MAKE IT AUTOMATIC, JUST AS WE MAKE IT AUTOMATIC THAT YOUNG MEN WHO TURN 18 HAVE TO BE REISTERED FOR ANY POSSIBLE MILITARY DRAFT.
EVERYONE WITH AN AMERICAN BIRTH CERTIFICATE COULD BE SENT OUT VOTER REGISTRATION CARDS WHEN THEY REACH LEGAL VOTING AGE.
VOTERS IN EACH STATE COULD BE GIVEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
NO STATE SHOULD SEEK TO RESTRICT ANY ELIGIBLE CITIZENS FROM THE VOTING PROCESS!
TO DO SO PROVES THEIR REAL INTENTION...TO SWAY THE VOTE, TO STEAL ELECTIONS, TO NEGATE THE RIGHTS OF ALL CITIZENS TO VOTE.
VOTE, AMERICA!
IF YOU HAVE TO CRAWL THROUGH SLEET AND FROZEN TERRAIN FOR 50 ILES, GO MAKE SURE YOU CAN VOTE!
MAKE SURE YOU DON'T FORGET WHO MADE IT NECESSARY FOR YOU TO FIGHT SO HARD TO CAST YOUR VOTES!
GET OUT OF THE TWO PARTIES, GET OUT OF ANY PARTY!
VOTE AS AMERICANS!
VOTE FOR THOSE WHO SEE ALL BORN HERE OR LEGALLY IMMIGRATED WITH FULL CITIZENSHIP AS AMERICANS!
THAT'S WHAT WE ARE!
WE ARE AMERICANS!
WE WERE BORN AMERICANS, NOT DEMOCRATS, NOT REPUBLICANS, BUT AMERICANS!
SHOW THE POLITICIANS WHO YOU REALLY ARE!VOTE THE LYING WHORES TO CORPORATE AMERICA AND THE BANKING ELITE OUT!
VOTE!
VOTE!
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~ Alio, Nur. "African American Men Get the Vote". Cobb-LaMarche. Archived from the original
~ Gabriel J. Chin & Randy Wagner, "The Tyranny of the Minority: Jim Crow and the Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty", 43 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 65 (2008)
~Barder (2011–2012). American Government and Politics Today. Suzanne Jeans. p. 313
~ Alio, Nur. "People with Disabilities and Voting". The Center for an Accessible Society.
~ "Help America Vote Act of 2002, HAVA, The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC)". Election Assistance Commission.
~ "Voting Rights: Earned or Entitled?", Harvard Political Review
~ Right to Vote Initiative - resources page at FairVote, regarding effort to ensure that the right of every U.S. citizen to vote is firmly entrenched in the U.S. Constitution
~ Voting Rights History Two Centuries of Struggle ~ Civil Rights Movement Veterans
~ Civil Rights Act of 1957
~ Civil Rights Act of 1960
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