Posted on 01/04/2012 6:55:41 PM PST by Chuckmorse
There is a solution to the problem of voter fraud, an act which compromises the sacred principle of one man one vote. Liberals have accused several GOP governors of attempting to suppress Democratic votes by instituting policies that require proper voter identification. Conservatives counter with the assertion that there have been widespread and systemic attempts by taxpayer funded liberal groups such as ACORN to hand in forged names on the registration forms of candidates that hire them and to commit other forms of voter fraud. Liberals answer this serious charge by claiming that there is no significant voter fraud but rather that this is a manufactured issue meant to serve a right-wing agenda.
To make matters worse, liberals play the race card in their self-serving argument against reasonable voter identification standards with the claim that a large percentage of voters who would be adversely affected by the new rules are poor minorities who don’t have a driver’s license or other valid form of identification. This charge is false or is at best greatly exaggerated. The vast majority of poor minority citizens have proper identification. But, given the remote possibility that liberals might be at least partially right, there is a simple solution, one that would diffuse the divisive race-baiting on the left while at the same time allowing for proper voter identification as a means of reducing voter fraud.
That solution would be for our taxpayer funded state social service workers to encourage and to assist in the proper registration of citizens in their care. All 50 states, to varying degrees, employ thousands of social workers, public interest lawyers, health care workers, and poverty administrators. It should be assumed that the vast majority of poor people come into contact with any number of these public servants at some point.
State public servants and social service bureaucrats ought to be charged with the responsibility of offering to help their clients to register to vote if the client requests such assistance. If their client is an American citizen than helping them to obtain the necessary identification to register should not be too difficult to accomplish. Public servants are already paid by the taxpayer which means that the infrastructure to accomplish this task is already in place and would not require any new agencies or public employees. The public servant would also be less inclined to risk participating in the serious felony of voter fraud.
Once this system is in place, once the poor have access to the assistance they would need to register to vote if they chose to, assuming such assistance is necessary, than the state would be in a position to insist upon photo identification when voting and there would be no legitimate grounds for ugly rancor and accusations. With such a system in place, the state would be in a position to tighten rules around verification of absentee ballots. The state could establish standards that prevent the possibility those students and other residents that spend considerable time out of state from voting in more than one state. Standards for citizens and military personnel overseas could be established by which proof of citizenship could be more effortlessly ascertained. If a police officer can gain access to a person’s driving record when pulled over for speeding than a state should be abler to set standards by which the authenticity of an absentee ballot could be confirmed.
Voter fraud is a serious crime and as such the act of voting fraudulently threatens the very essence of our democracy. Every vote should be equal and the only way to accomplish this democratic principle of voter equality is for the government to insure that elections are not stolen by criminals.
Without voter fraud, there wouldn’t be any DemocRATS in Washington.
Voter fraud and open borders.
How do you get a welfare check, and how do you cash it without proper ID?
This wouldn’t work. The problem is overregistration. The democrat election judges then cast votes after the polls close for the folks who haven’t voted yet. There are variations on this. But if the election judges are not honest, then lots of registrations just creates more vote fraud. Picture ID doesn’t change that. The election judges just ignore the requirement.
This is one of the main reasons cameras and recorders are not allowed in polling places. My opinion is that cameras should record everything that goes on in a polling place. That would be a far greater deterrent.
One problem I see with this solution is that most social workers are democrats, and most of them would sign up their clients as such. This would ensure that democrats are the BIG majority. Voter fraud? Have you read about the numbers of social workers who file for claims knowing their clients do not qualify, help them file for things under false names, etc.? This would be an unmitigated disaster. No, thanks!
Once Roman Catholic illegals start to pull the lever for the GOP—then the Democrats will start to change this rule—corruption—pure and simple.
If illegals votged Republican, the border wall would have gone up long ago.
They'll do whatever their union leadership TELLS them to do!
I don't know about the rest of the country, but in New Jersey each polling place is staffed by an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, four per district (two each) in most cases. The machines print out a "zero proof" at opening to prevent preloading votes, and voter authority slips to each individual will match the total number of votes cast on the machines. The machine totals are printed out at the close of the polls, signed by the board workers and returned to the municipal clerk's office by one or more of us. The printouts are time-stamped.
The system is hard to jigger that way (though not IMPOSSIBLE if you have faux Republicans who only registered that way to work the boards), leaving votes by the ineligible, the dead by surrogates and votes in multiple districts under different names as the most common ways to defraud the system. Voter ID goes a long way towards dealing with them. I'd add the Iraqi "purple finger" to the mix to knock out the multiple ID/district vote.
Don’t forget that Aunt Zetuni, Barack Obama’s illegal alien aunt lived in a subsidized apartment in Boston. Now someone at the welfare office was not paying attention. Or was it on purpose?
Most of election fraud seems to be done by insiders in the political system, not random individuals.
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