Another liberal state.
Another state where you can practically register your dog as a voter:
The video, a sequel to O’Keefe’s “Primary of the Living Dead” in New Hampshire, shows a Veritas agent entering various voting places around the state of Vermont, giving a different name each time. Each time, he is given a ballot without showing an ID, to his disbelief.
In the video, the agent repeatedly requests (but does not take) a Republican primary ballot. As he explained to Breitbart.com: “We wanted to remind viewers this is not a partisan issue. This is a situation wherein anyone — Republican or Democrat — can exploit the system.”
The new video follows in the wake of a highly-politicized media attack on Mr. O’Keefe after his exposure of voter fraud in New Hampshire. Those videos resulted in calls from the left for O’Keefe’s arrest. However, the videos soon resulted in the New Hampshire State Senate passing a new bill requiring voter ID.
This comes on top of the expose on Minnesota’s comical voter registration system last month.
Just a hunch – but a few hundred more of these and we may just reach a tipping point.
After we get rid of cheating voters, can we get rid of the K Street and similar access in Washington, where a little largesse by one guy is worth thousands of votes?
After we get rid of cheating voters, can we get rid of the K Street and similar access in Washington, where a little largesse by one guy is worth thousands of votes?
Not a chance in hell, OJ, unless the legislative and regulatory leviathan in Washington is somehow dismantled, or at least pruned back in a major way. To paraphrase P. J. O’Rourke, as long as buying and selling is controlled by legislation, the first things that are bought and sold are legislators.
But, if you disenfranchise voter theft you’ve killed a whole industry. Jobs are tough enough these days…
oldjohnnie, haven’t you noticed that everytime Congress attempts to control money in politics we only get more money in politics? Or that everytime the Government says this law will result in more transparent Government it only gets muddier?
Voter ID isn’t going to solve all of our problems but, it will give us a system that is a little harder to cheat.
Just pass term limit legislation and lobbyist will go away.
JPA, term limits don’t limit the power of lobbyists, they actually amplify the power of lobbyists and bureaucrats since they’re the only constants with the knowledge and history of the institution.
If you want to limit lobbyists’ power, prevent legislators and their aides from ever working in an industry for which they accept lobbyists’ funds, or tax them at 99% if they do.
clearly you didn’t read the wise Hakim X’s op-ed today in the Strib. This law will disenfranchise 86 year old WWII vets so it cannot be passed.
This is a lost cause for lefties.
Hakim X Ellison has an editorial in today’s Star&Sickle wherein he opines that even one vote lost because of a lack of ID is too many.
As proof, he trots out an old guy who presented an expired drivers license and was refused a ballot. Fail.
No one is going to take up the cause of the feckless, the unprepared, the unconcerned. Matter of fact, getting turned down will probably force this guy to get his license renewed…like he should. Win!
One vote lost to Democrat fraud is too many.
… he opines that even one vote lost because of a lack of ID is too many.
…and yet, complying with existing law to make sure that the votes are counted from everyone now serving doesn’t seem quite so important.
Funny that.
The NAACP denounces Americans they don’t agree with to the U.N.:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/09/naacp-un-voter-disfranchisement-us
But don’t you dare say the NAACP is unpatriotic.
Maybe we don’t yet have voter ID in MN, but we sure as heck have health care ID. At my clinic, a subsidiary of a very large health care system, you can’t see a doctor unless you produce a photo ID. How many people are turned away without ID? Zero, zed, nada. Our Secretary of State is either incredibly stupid, or a liar. Probably both, when he maintains that a hefty percentage of state residents don’t have photo ID.