MAybe We Need A Department Of Election Safety
Posted by Andy on April 29th, 2008
Why are lefties (yes the League of Women Voters is a lefty group) so inclined to make sure someone can steal my vote?
Regarding the US Supreme Court decision upholding (drum roll please) an Indiana law requiring (suspense) photo IDs in order to vote.
For some, though, any burden is still too much. Keesha Gaskins, Executive Director of the Minnesota League of Women Voters, said the non-partisan League will oppose any future legislation that requires a photo ID.
“This puts up another barrier to voting; that’s really all there is to it. There’s been no evidence of voter fraud in Minnesota; there’s no reason to change,” Gaskins said.
The reason to change is to guarantee that every vote cast is safe and rightfully done so. Our cherished right to vote should not be left to the will of people who may try to cheat. Doing so cheapens and weakens the power of us as individuals.
Minnesota’s Secretary of State Mark Ritchie maintains the ruling has no direct effect locally.
“Well I haven’t had a chance to read the Supreme Court ruling, and I’ll be very interested in it from just the curiosity point of view, but it had nothing to do with Minnesota law, so it won’t affect us at all,” Ritchie said.
Yes, that is the guy who is supposed to run our elections in Minnesota. Has he even looked into the case or other similar laws to Indiana’s?
Twenty-five states currently require some ID to vote.
Why is leaving the door open to voter fraud something the liberals in the State of Minnesota want to lead the Nation in?
All it takes is one person to cast a vote improperly to erase the vote of a person who had the right to in the first place.
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April 29th, 2008 at 9:22 am
I always love to hear that “[T]here’s been no evidence of voter fraud in Minnesota” … when all one has to do is remember the situation in Coates. Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten where the strip club owner had 90 some friends casts votes in an attempt to change the composition of a city council that was opposed to his business!
I’m sure that as long as those people were fraudently voting in the local election, they just happened to fail to cast votes (fraudently) in other elections that were on the ballot!!
Then there is the situation with students who cast votes in their college town … and vote absentee at home. No need for any investigations here. Let’s just ignore it!
April 29th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Ritchie’s response is utterly unsurprising. I pointed out here the flawless logic of Antonin Scalia. When I read his concurring opinion, I just said to myself “Now that’s why elections matter.”
We shouldn’t be surprised that Ritchie doesn’t seem disturbed about potential voter fraud. Ed Rendell had the audacity to point out that a target=”_blank” href=’http://www.letfreedomringblog.com/?p=2678′>the Democratic nominating process isn’t democratic.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Sheesh. Here’s that last paragraph done right:
We shouldn’t be surprised that Ritchie doesn’t seem disturbed about potential voter fraud. Ed Rendell had the audacity to point out that the Democratic nominating process isn’t democratic.