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We've been hearing quite a bit of complaining lately about new Voter ID requirements in several states, my own Pennsylvania among them.
South Carolina and Texas are in court fighting to overthrow a peremptory Department of Justice order, imposed under the 1964 Civil Rights act, barring implementation of their new requirements.
Pennsylvania's law is currently 'under investigation' by the DoJ, which is presumably waiting to see if a pending ACLU suit succeeds in blocking it's implementation, or if they'll have to try to stop it themselves. Florida is being besieged once more by the DoJ over it's efforts to purge the dead, missing, and otherwise disqualified from it's records.
We've all heard the dismissive argument that there is not enough voter fraud to justify enacting photo ID requirements, and purging the rolls of ineligible entries . Not so fast say John Fund and Hans Von Spakovsky in their new book "Who's Counting".
We've all heard the dismissive argument that there is not enough voter fraud to justify enacting photo ID requirements, and purging the rolls of ineligible entries . Not so fast say John Fund and Hans Von Spakovsky in their new book "Who's Counting".
Do the Math
Among other cases where proven fraud has had a direct effect on the outcome of elections, they highlight the story of the 2008 Minnesota Senatorial race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. Coleman was initially declared the winner by 725 votes, a recount cut that margin down to 206. After eight months of litigation Franken was declared the winner by 312 votes out of 2.9 million cast and took the seat in the Senate. Then came an independent investigation of the voter rolls which uncovered the fact that among other problems, 1,099 convicted felons, disenfranchised by reason of their crimes, had participated in the election.
"So what?" says the left. "That's only a tiny fraction of the votes cast! 0.03789% There's more important issues to deal with!"
Or are there?
Obamacare by Felony
While it's a tiny fraction of the total vote, it is 352% of Al Franken's margin of victory. It may be open to question how all of those criminals voted, but the consequences of that election are not. Franken became the 60th member of the Senate voting Democratic, giving them a filibuster proof majority, and securing the passage of the single most contentious piece of legislation of most of our political lifetimes, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
If 1,099 illegally voting felons gave us Obama-care, affecting every single American, and encompassing one sixth of our entire economy, then the cries of ‘statistical insignificance’ pale in the face of practical effect. When the only direct control we have over our political representatives is at the ballot box, elections, like Caesar's wife, must be above reproach.
H/T to the ever-excellent blog, GeeeeeZ!
Links:
Byron York: When 1,099 Felons Vote
True the Vote 2012
Obamacare by Felony
While it's a tiny fraction of the total vote, it is 352% of Al Franken's margin of victory. It may be open to question how all of those criminals voted, but the consequences of that election are not. Franken became the 60th member of the Senate voting Democratic, giving them a filibuster proof majority, and securing the passage of the single most contentious piece of legislation of most of our political lifetimes, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
If 1,099 illegally voting felons gave us Obama-care, affecting every single American, and encompassing one sixth of our entire economy, then the cries of ‘statistical insignificance’ pale in the face of practical effect. When the only direct control we have over our political representatives is at the ballot box, elections, like Caesar's wife, must be above reproach.
H/T to the ever-excellent blog, GeeeeeZ!
Links:
Byron York: When 1,099 Felons Vote
True the Vote 2012
