Posted on 04/16/2012 1:08:44 PM PDT by John Semmens
Project Veritas’ demonstration of how easy it is to vote in someone else’s name failed to inspire concern at the Attorney General’s office. The demonstration involved sending a scruffy, young, white man to 61-year-old Eric Holder’s polling place to see if poll workers would give him Holder’s presidential primary ballot. Despite the young man’s lack of photo ID he was offered the ballot.
Holder called the demonstration “a stunt that doesn’t prove anything. No fraudulent vote was cast. The only harm that was done was to people’s confidence in the integrity of the ballot. Maintaining this confidence is the key to preserving civil order. If too many people start to doubt the legitimacy of elections we’re in for real trouble. Fortunately, Project Veritas has very little credibility with the reputable media.”
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http://azconservative.org/2012/04/14/pelosi-confident-womens-votes-will-mean-democratic-sweep-in-november/
Tell that to Mickey Mouse and the Dallas Cowboys.
The only thing that frightens Holder, Obama, and the Democrats is that a way will be found to STOP voter fraud.
They know what puts them in office.
“the only harm that was done was to people’s confidence in the integrity of the ballot. Maintaining this confidence is the key to preserving civil order. If too many people start to doubt the legitimacy of elections we’re in for real trouble”
He’s alleging sedition. Or close to it, anyway. There’s no “clear and present danger,” but it could possibly eventually lead to unrest, so shut up, citizen! I don’t suppose he’d see any related danger in, say, the Black Panthers inciting lynch mobs in the event Zimmerman is acquitted or the case is thrown out. Nah, nobody’d want to stand in the way of a good race riot. But preventing as many people as possible voting Democrat? That’s un-American.
By the way, I’d think the more important a process is, the more open to criticism we’d want it to be. Or are we back to the old “national security” argument for everything under the sun?
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