In one month, voters will go to the polls to elect the entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate. Will the midterms be clean? Could some elections be stolen? Everyone ostensibly agrees that voters have a right to know that their decision is not being ignored. And a clear majority supports a simple way to make sure: voter ID.
You would not know it if you read only the
New York Times or watched only MSNBC, but the Left and President Obama are
losing their fight to block the widespread introduction of voter ID cards. In
courts of law and the court of public opinion, the issue is gaining traction.
With few exceptions, liberal pressure groups have lost lawsuits in state after
state, with courts tossing out their faux claims that ID laws are discriminatory,
unconstitutional or suppress minority voting.…….Take Al Franken’s 2008 victory over
incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman. A watchdog group matched criminal
records with the voting rolls and discovered that 1,099 felons had cast ballots
illegally. A local TV news reporter found that nine of the 10 felons he
interviewed had voted for Franken. State law allows prosecutions only of those
who admit knowingly committing voter fraud, and 177 were convicted. Franken’s
victory margin was just 312 votes. It gave Democrats their 60th Senate seat,
creating the filibuster-proof majority that helped make Obamacare law……To Read More....
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