OPINION: Voter fraud unacceptable

Published by The Reporter



Posted: 01/14/2012 01:06:45 AM PST

Reporter columnist Dannette Mitchell's article ("Adapt to new voting rules," Jan. 7) does an excellent job of regurgitating the Obama/Democratic/progressive talking points provided to their minions. In an attempt to distract voters, they hope you will overlook their dismal performance in the last three years and jump on the class-warfare and discrimination train. Unfortunately, for them, the discrimination train has already left the station.

Ms. Mitchell's problem is with the new laws that require a photo ID to register and vote. You have to wonder why Democrats are so dead-set against photo ID's that they are willing to invoke Jim Crow laws that were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1954. The answer is simple. They don't want voter fraud stopped or hindered because it favors their candidates.

Protecting our elections, ensuring that they are open and honest, is probably the most important thing we can do to protect our republic. Without open and honest elections, we cannot survive as a free nation. You need a photo ID for a driver's license, a passport, to board a plane, to cash a check, to buy cigarettes, to buy alcohol, to enter federal buildings, yet the progressives/Democrats believe that protecting our elections is not important enough to require a photo ID.

In their attempt to thwart the voter ID laws, they revert to the Joseph Goebbels school of propaganda: "If you tell a lie big enough and repeat it often enough, eventually people will believe it." Ms. Mitchell's statement that, "so far, little to no evidence has shown that voter fraud exists," is the perfect example. There are thousands of recorded cases of voter fraud that can be confirmed by a simple Internet search. In 2010, one organization, ACORN, has had 15 workers convicted of voter registration fraud. From 2004 to 2008, there have been 34 cases where ACORN workers have been investigated, arrested or convicted of voter fraud.

In one U.S. district court in 2005, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that 3 percent of the 30,000 individuals called for jury duty from the voter registration rolls were not U.S. citizens. If you're not a U.S. citizen and you register to vote, that is fraud. That's 900 cases of voter registration fraud in one district in one investigation.

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