Democracy takes a big step forward before Election Day
Lewis DiuguidPeople should cheer for the courts and our democracy after a Commonwealth Court judge on Tuesday delayed Pensylvania’s voter ID requirement.
It means voters on Nov. 6 won’t have to show a photo identification card to cast ballots. That could work in President Barack Obama’s favor in that battleground state.
Republican dominated state legislatures have instituted voter ID requirements, saying its to combat voter fraud. However, little illegal voting has ever been detected.
People opposed to the new laws contend that voter IDs are a way to keep people who normally vote Democratic from casting ballots. They include the elderly, minorities and the poor.
Other courts fortunately are taking action against the photo ID requirements.
Matt Henry
8 months, 2 weeks agoI always hear that there is not enough voter fraud to justify these photo ID laws. This is the new “unchallengable” media meme of the day, despite all of the evidence to the contrary. Voter fraud DOES occur and occur routinely. This is well documented, from the anecdotal (“My name is Eric Holder. Can I have a ballot?”) to the specifically measurable, including the PROVEN fraud that got Al Franken elected in 2006, which led to the 60 vote majority in the Senate that gave us Obamacare. Fraud changed an election that changed the national landscape.
So folks like Lewis don’t argue that fraud doesn’t occur, it just doesn’t occur with enough frequency to justify voter ID laws. A subjective standard, to be sure. How much is too much?
The flipside is, of course, plausible as well. The consistent meme is that blacks, poor and elderly will vote in fewer numbers because of voter ID laws. Has there ever been measurements to suggest this is the case? To use Lewis’s own words, “little (evidence that people won’t vote if they have to get an ID) has ever been detected.” This is, in my estimation, a purely subjective measure but we are asked to accept it as if it came down from the mountain on a tablet of stone.
So why if not for bias in the media accepting one subjective analysis that has been disproven (“very little voter fraud occurs”) over another subjective analysis for which there is nothing but anecdotal evidence (“people who are otherwise legal, voting citizens will not continue to vote if they have to get a photo ID to do it”)?
Could it be that they just WANT this to be true? Maybe they just like using as a bludgeon that conservatives don’t care about black folks and poor people. Maybe they want those instances of voter fraud (which seem to invariably support democrats) to continue to occur.
Lewis may be a true believer, but this is textbook “useful idiot” stuff.
George Hunsucker
Northland
8 months, 2 weeks agoYup lewis, another judge tosses out a law passed by the legislature of PA…
You libs are a hoot….