Voter Fraud?
When a place gets crowded enough to require
ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best
thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Time
Enough For Love.
It’s hard
to keep track of all the crazy schemes that are being passed as laws in states to
suppress the vote. All because of the claim that they are fighting voter fraud
that has been proven not to exist.
There are
all the Voter ID laws that require picture ID that you can only get with
documentation that has never been needed before and in many cases will cost
money to obtain.
The Texas
law will accept a concealed carry gun permit as valid ID but not a student ID
from a State college.
The people
least likely to have the needed ID in every state passing the laws are the people
most likely to vote for Democrats.
Now add
the special wrinkles that have been added by many Republican controlled state
governments.
First they
close offices that would be issuing the required ID’s in urban areas more likely
to vote Democratic and keep them open in Republican areas even though they have
much lower populations.
Then they started
limiting the hours they are open to the times that poor and middle class voters
are working and can’t take off to get the ID.
Then you
start limiting early voting to fewer days and only during the week in normal working
hours. End all weekend voting when working people have the time to vote.
Where you
can register to vote or request an absentee ballot on-line discontinue the service.
Pennsylvania did this today. You can’t do it now.
Then there
is Florida where they are challenging the right of many people to vote because
they might not be U.S. citizens. The people checked on the lists so far are
U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote but the burden falls on the individual
to prove this if they want to vote.
There are
lots of court cases pending fighting all this stuff but I don’t hold out much
hope for too many victories for the people seeking to expand the number of
people able to vote.
I got to
thinking the other day. I know that that is usually a bad idea in my case.
What was
bugging me was the memory of something from the years of the Bush
administration though I don’t remember exactly when. My memory is sort of vague
and I’m too lazy to do actual research.
I remember
that there was a big push at one time in the Congress to establish a national
ID card. If I remember right Sen. John McCain was one of the people advocating
the requirement to have every U.S. Citizen issued a Federal ID.
There was
a lot of opposition from many sides to this. It just smacked too much of Big
Brother and the world described in the book 1984.
Like I
say, I got to thinking about this and noticed that as far as I can tell not one
Republican has suggested a Federal ID since this big push against nonexistent voter
fraud began.
Curious...
What surer
way would there be to eliminate any possibility of voter fraud if everyone had
a government ID card from birth just like a Social Security card. The issuing
would become automatic and while it does smack of Big Brother and might be bad I’m
not sure it would be any different than now with everyone having a Social
Security number and having to file taxes every year.
The thing
I find curious is that if they really want to make sure that nobody can vote
who is not eligible to vote why aren’t they pushing for a Federal ID every
chance they get?
Maybe they
don’t they want to solve this nonexistent problem?
as long as there are humans involved there is going to be fraud.
it's not who casts the votes that decide the election, it who counts the votes that decide the election.