{"id":27362,"date":"2012-04-10T06:29:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T11:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27362"},"modified":"2014-10-05T14:39:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:39:34","slug":"cant-you-suckers-see-that-its-me-me-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27362","title":{"rendered":"Can’t You Suckers See That It’s Me, Me Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faced with an amendment that will likely pass 2:1 this fall that will also peel off enough fraudulent votes to cost them some of the close elections (like the last Governor and Senate races), the Democrats are turning on the spin.<\/p>\n

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Emphasis added\u00a0to this bit here from the MinnPost<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n

But opponents say it will make voting more difficult for those who don’t have\u00a0 the right ID, such as seniors who no longer drive, college students, soldiers overseas<\/strong> and homeless people. And they argue that there’s no evidence that voter fraud is a big problem, and that there are laws in place already.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dave Thul – regional blogger, activist and senior non-commissioned officer – pointed out in the comment section yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Every member of the US military on active duty is required to have and carry a photo ID. Every member of the military overseas is required to have said photo ID on them at all times.<\/p>\n

Also, every US military member has in his or her unit an appointed Voting Assistance Officer, responsible for implementing the DOD directive that every member of the military will have the ability to vote. Voting assistance officers have the same legal authority as a notary public to sign off on a ballot to certify that the voter provided photo ID.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Huh. \u00a0I don’t recall anyone in the media checking on that. \u00a0Catherine Richert? \u00a0You out there?<\/p>\n

Another one’s been making the rounds, this time from the MinnPost <\/em>article linked above, with emphasis added::<\/p>\n

…many voters do not realize that it is not just any government-issued (or approved) i.d. they would need to present at their voting place. It will be a special i.d. for voting only<\/strong> and those who want one will have to purchase and present a government-issued birth certificate or perhaps passport in order to get the voter i.d. card. I’m not sure of the current price of a birth certificate, but a passport cost $100 a few years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Pro-Voter Fraud crowd – the DFL, the Alliance for a Better Minnesota, Common Cause and so on – are passing this meme around (or at least not saying it’s not <\/em>wrong; they’re telling the students, the poor, and especially seniors that their driver’s license, state ID or existing passport won’t suffice for voting.<\/p>\n

I expect the DFL to start telling that same crowd that Mary Kiffmeyer wants to collect bone marrow samples before voting. \u00a0Indeed, expect that previous sentence to pop up on at least one leftyblog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Faced with an amendment that will likely pass 2:1 this fall that will also peel off enough fraudulent votes to cost them some of the close elections (like the last Governor and Senate races), the Democrats are turning on the spin. Emphasis added\u00a0to this bit here from the MinnPost: But opponents say it will make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,189],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-27362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth","tag-abm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27362"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47883,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27362\/revisions\/47883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}