Voter ID and The Constitution

By Rich Kozlovich

On April 26, 2025  James Fite posted this article at Liberty Nation News, Voter ID: Where the President, the People and the Constitution Stand, saying "popular doesn’t necessarily equal constitutional".

He goes on to explain:

DC District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly  ruled that states don’t have to make voters show ID at the polls or show proof of citizenship to register. Trump is a fan of voter ID requirements, and so are most Americans, according to polling. But if the Constitution doesn’t support that position, then neither public opinion nor the president’s order makes it legal.

First, the DC District is filled with leftist political hacks, and she's one of them.  He then goes on to point out the Constitution defines the rules governing the federal government's role in national elections quoting the first paragraph of Article I, Section 4 which reads:

“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.”

He went on to explain:

Each state is explicitly granted the authority to determine when, where, and how US senators and representatives are elected. Then there’s an exception to that authority: Congress can legislate it at any time (well, all except the polling places). Note the lack of authorization for a president to override the states. The federal government can step in, but it has to be through the standard legislative process ......

He goes on to justify Judge Kollar-Kotelly's ruling noting there's nothing in the Constitution that allows the President to short circuit the legislative process, and she's right, but since when did that matter to the judiciary?  All of a sudden the leftist hacks in the federal judiciary are in love with the actual wording in the Constitution, incapable of seeing any penumbras or emanations of the Constitution to justify the President imposing voter ID on the states.  

Penumbras and emanations of the Constitution is a concept created by the judiciary, that also appears nowhere in the Constitution, but it allows them to bypass the legislative process in order find imaginary rights in order to impose laws on the nation no one passed, like the abortion, and the Chevron decisions.  It's kinda like how Hollywood twists inconvenient history in their movies with the attitude, "if it didn't happen that way, it should have".  

Yet, clearly it was the intent of the Founding Fathers that only citizens should be allowed to vote.  So, why wouldn't that justify taking the position the President was merely enforcing an unwritten law.  An unwritten law that was an obvious and understood unwritten law.  An unwritten law that didn't need to be written through the legislative process? 

Andrea posted this article in 2021, Clarence Thomas identifies the greatest danger in America, saying :

Article III of the Constitution of the United States establishes a “supreme Court.” .........While Art III limits somewhat the nature of the cases the Supreme Court may hear, it does not impose any checks or balances on the Supreme Court’s power.  Then, in 1803, Chief Justice John Marshall extended the Court’s power, holding that Article III’s grant of authority inevitably gave the Court the power to overturn unconstitutional legislation. The result is a Supreme Court that has freely rewritten the Constitution to achieve political ends—and turned the Court itself from what should be a neutral judicial institution into one that has become the partisan center of D.C.

The Constitution gave Justice Marshall no such authority. The Constitution says the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary is in the hands of the Congress, not the Supreme Court. 

The public is hugely in favor of Voter ID with 98% of Republican, 84% of independents and 67% of Democrats in support.  Five states already require it, another 40 are considering doing so, and currently there's legislation introduced by Rep. Chip Roy of Texas that's passed the House called "The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act", that's in the Senate.  But it must meet the 60-vote threshold to get voted on.  Why 60 votes?  

In 1975, the Senate reduced the number of votes required for cloture from two-thirds of senators voting to three-fifths of all senators duly chosen and sworn, or 60 of the current 100 senators. Today, filibusters remain a part of Senate practice, although only on legislation.

Will it pass the Senate?  Who knows?  If all 53 Republicans sign on, including Murkowski, Collins, Mitch McConnell, which is iffy, that would take seven Democrats to cross over.  Given the mental and moral unfitness of so many Republicans in the Senate, I don't think it can happen unless at least a minimum of ten Democrats cross over, and I really don't see that happening.

So, why is it the courts can't find even one little penumbra or tiny emanation to justify Trump's policy?  Because  the federal judiciary is rife with incompetent, not very bright, corrupt political hacks who can't be fired.  That's what needs changing.

North Carolina Republican lawmakers win right to intervene in court and defend state’s voter-ID law

By Amy Howe  Jun 23, 2022  

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that two Republican legislators in North Carolina can join a lawsuit to defend the constitutionality of the state’s voter-identification law. Two lower courts had rejected the legislators’ request, reasoning that the state’s Democratic attorney general and the board of elections were already defending the law, but the justices reversed those rulings. In an 8-1 opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court ruled that the Republican legislators have a right to intervene in the lawsuit.

Thursday’s decision addressed only the legislators’ right to join the lawsuit to defend the voter-ID law; it did not address the underlying issue of whether the law violates federal voting-rights protections.........To Read More....

 

AP Exam Requires Students To Choose Answers Indicating Voting Laws Are Racially Biased

Maria Wheeler  August 16, 2021

The College Board has been accused of indoctrinating students in ‘woke’ politics by requiring them to choose an answer on an AP Government exam indicating voter ID discourages black people from voting.   “Nothing to see here, just an official AP Government practice exam forcing students to falsely say voter ID is racist and urging them to overturn voter ID laws in order to pass the test,” tweeted Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist.........To Read More.....

Our Group's Take:

1.  To state the obvious, this headline is extremely misleading. The AP question does not require any conclusion about whether voting laws are racially biased. It requires identifying what an infographic says, not whether what it says is true.

2.  The article brings up that exact point, and explains it pretty clearly. However, the headline isn't necessarily wrong either. The infographic that is used suggest exactly that and the "correct answer" also suggests it - that is, if the person taking the test assumes that the infographic is providing accurate information. When in fact it's not.

But most people who read things along those lines particularly coming from what is supposed to be a credible source tend to assume that the information is accurate, which would mean that the voting laws are racially biased, when actually they're not. 

 

I think it is particularly true when the reader is a teen or young adult as the vast majority of people who take the AP exam are. It would be a relatively rare kid who would assume or know that the information was incorrect. As a result, the test basically leads the kids rather badly astray. And I don't think that's reasonable for an exam like the SAT or the AP.

So while your point is technically true - and the article points that out - I think ultimately the majority of kids who take the tests are going to assume that the laws are racially biased because of that infographic. Thus the exam is in effect propagandizing the kids.

As a result, I think it is also fair to say that the AP exam is spreading propaganda or is indoctrinating students to believe things that are not the case.

 

3. My Take - I don't know if anyone else is unaware of what the AP stands for, but it stands for Advancement Placement.  Which means they're clearly attempting to indoctrinate the next level of college enrollees. 

Desperate Dems Deny Their Agenda Three Times

I & I Editorial Board July 8, 2021

Theodoor Rombouts, The Denial of Saint Peter

Three of the big issues of the day have the liberal left scrambling to pretend that it’s not a group of outside-the-mainstream radicals: defunding police, critical race theory, and voter ID laws. There should be repercussions for such cravenness.  After spending the better part of the year talking up a “defund the police” agenda, Democrats are now trying to claim that it’s Republicans who want to strip the police of their resources.

Defund the Police: For more than a year, leading Democrats – up to and including President Joe Biden – have talked up the idea of cutting police budgets because local law enforcement is plagued by racism..............Democrats didn’t just talk about defunding the police. Deep blue cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Austin, Portland, and others acted on it, slashing police budgets. The predictable result was an explosion in violent crime. Over the July 4 weekend alone, more than 180 people were shot to death. Not only that, but ambushes of police grew more than 90% this year............

Critical Race Theory: Meanwhile, even as the left pushes the Marxist “critical race theory” into the nation’s schools, military and private sector, it’s denying what it’s doing. The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman noted that:............Why is the left trying to gaslight America on this? Because, for one, an increasing number of parents are in open revolt over this noxious propaganda. As we noted in this space:.............

Voter ID: Then there’s the issue of voter ID laws. Up until just days ago, Democrats were united in decrying voter ID laws as racist attempts to suppress minority voters.  Biden compared a Georgia law that included a voter ID requirement as “Jim Crow in the 21st Century.” Back in 2014, when he was vice president, Biden called voter ID laws “an attempt to repress minority voting masquerading as an attempt to end corruption."............Now, suddenly, they are all more accepting of the idea, if not openly endorsing it. But instead of admitting that their past opposition to this common-sense reform was a wrongheaded attempt at race-baiting, Democrats are pretending that they never opposed voter ID laws...........To Read More....

Kamala Harris Says Voter ID Is Bad Because Not Everyone Lives Near a Kinko's or OfficeMax

Christine Favocci July 9, 2021

America the Outlier

Voter photo IDs are the rule in Europe and elsewhere.

By John R. Lott, Jr.  

 

Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020 elections—warning anew of racist voter “suppression” otherwise. Yet democracies in Europe and elsewhere tell a different story—of the benefits of stricter voter ID requirements after hard lessons learned.

A database on voting rules worldwide compiled by the Crime Prevention Research Center, which I run, shows that election integrity measures are widely accepted globally, and have often been adopted by countries after they’ve experienced fraud under looser voting regimes.

Of 47 nations surveyed in Europe—a place where, on other matters, American progressives often look to with envy—all but one country requires a government-issued photo voter ID to vote. The exception is the U.K., and even there voter IDs are mandatory in Northern Ireland for all elections and in parts of England for local elections. Moreover, Boris Johnson’s government recently introduced legislation to have the rest of the country follow suit.

Criticisms of the British leader’s voter ID push are similar to those heard in the United States. The Scottish National Party claims his voter ID push targets “lower income, ethnic minority and younger people” who are less likely to vote for Johnson’s conservatives and therefore represents “Trump-like voter suppression.”

Yet despite such pushback, Britain looks set to follow countries in Europe and elsewhere with stricter voting regimes, few of which temporarily relaxed any of their voting rules during the pandemic ..........To Read More....

 

 

 

 

 

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson: Insulting to Say Blacks Can’t Get a Free ID to Vote

Robert Kraychik 22 Apr 2021  22

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R-NC) said on Thursday it was “preposterous” and “insulting” for Democrats to frame black Americans as incapable of obtaining a photo ID to comply with voter-ID laws.

Robinson was invited to testify as a witness before the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing entitled, “Oversight of the Voting Rights Act: The Evolving Landscape of Voting Discrimination.” Democrats and the broader left regularly frame voter-ID laws as racially discriminatory against blacks, including comparisons between such regulations and Jim Crow laws.

Robinson said:

Am I to believe that black Americans — who have overcome the atrocities of slavery, who were victorious in the civil rights moment, and now sit in the highest levels of this government — cannot figure out how to get a free ID to secure their votes?

They need to be coddled by politicians because they don’t think we can figure out how to make our voices heard

Are you kidding me? The notion that black people must be protected from a free ID to secure their votes is not just insane, it is insulting.

Robinson observed the subtext of Democrat narratives regarding voter-ID laws:.................“H.R. 1 [is] despicable,” he stated. “The entire thing is designed to keep one party in power and make sure they stay there indefinitely. … They plan to do that by taking away the rights of states given by the Constitution to govern their own elections.”  He concluded, “[H.R. 1 would use] government dollars to fund campaigns in order to give an advantage to one party, mandating that felons are allowed to vote — including illegal immigrants on voter rolls — and of course, trying to banish states from having voter ID.”...........To Read More.....

My Take - Mark Robinson came to my attention in an article with this video.  He's an impressive man.

Vast Majority Of U.S. Firms Failed To Sign Voting Statement

By Lawrence Kudlow, Special to the Sun | April 15, 2021 

 Let's turn to the issue of voting rights and corporate chief executives. A statement organized in recent days by the former CEO of American Express, Kenneth Chenault, and Merck's chief executive, Kenneth Frazier. A large number of companies signed it. A number of celebrities and activists also signed it. Then again, too, a large number of companies did not sign it. In some cases, CEOs signed it but didn't identify their company. When I say a large number, I mean a large number of very big companies. According to reports, it's a couple of hundred.

Don’t forget, though, that there are a total of 5.6 million companies in America. Most of them are small businesses, not publicly owned corporations. They — not these high-falutin CEOs — are the backbone of this country . And I’m going to respectfully bet you that millions of the 5.6 million American businesses do not agree with these CEOs.  The issue surged with some state legislative changes to Georgia’s voting laws, while a number of other states are proposing voting reforms. In the news reports, I see words like “fair,” “accessable,” “equitable,” “defend the right to vote,” “oppose discriminatory legislation” or “equal and fair opportunity” to cast a ballot.

I don’t know of anybody that would disagree with such sentiments. The CEOs intentionally stayed away from specifics, and acknowledged as much in interviews. “We are not being prescriptive,” Mr. Chenault told the New York Times. “There is no one answer.”   “These are not political issues,” he said. “These are the issues that we were taught in civics.” Merck’s Mr. Frazier emphasized non-partisanship, saying these are issues we were taught in civics.

Well, those are good ideas but in fact, the issue has become politicized. Regrettably so.............. To Read More....

•  Corporate America sends mixed messages on voting rights 
•  Big Business Joins the Other Crumbling Pillars of Society

Sorting Fact From Fiction in the Georgia Voting Law Debate

By Sarah Westwood, Investigative Reporter | March 31, 202

A voting reform bill in Georgia has sparked lawsuits, boycotts, and mass outrage among Democrats, who describe the law as a revival of Jim Crow-era racism. But much of the heated rhetoric surrounding the bill, which Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law on Thursday, misrepresents what the reforms will accomplish.

The debate over whether Georgia’s law constitutes “despicable voter suppression,” as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, has claimed, or necessary updates to the state code is significant. Democrats in Washington have used the specter of the law to push a sweeping federal bill aimed at overhauling all elections. They have even threatened to weaken or end the filibuster in order to pass the bill, known as H.R. 1, to fight what they have characterized as racism in the way states like Georgia want to conduct their elections.

Here are some of the most controversial claims about the law — and what issues state Republicans were aiming to address............To Read More.....

Civil Rights Groups Sue Georgia Over Election Reform Bill

By Mike Brest, Breaking News Reporter | March 30, 2021

A handful of civil rights groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Georgia officials over the election reform bill signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp.  At the heart of the lawsuit is S.B. 202, the omnibus election bill that passed through the state legislature and was signed into law by Kemp on March 25.

The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Georgia, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Southern Poverty Law Center, and multiple law firms filed the suit in the Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division on behalf of a handful of groups, including the Sixth District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Georgia Muslim Voter Project, Women Watch Afrika, Latino Community Fund Georgia, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc........ To Read More....

How Georgia's new voting law compares to other states

by Sarah Westwood, Investigative Reporter | April 09, 2021 

Georgia's new voting law has sparked outrage from Democrats and even been called "Jim Crow on steroids" by President Joe Biden, but many of its provisions have governed elections in other states across the country for years.

From voter ID requirements to ballot drop boxes, and early voting schedules to absentee ballot access, there is little new or unique in the freshly minted Georgia rules. In fact, many of the measures critics are attacking have long been in place in blue states, including Biden's home state of Delaware.

Peach State Republicans say they passed the law to ensure voter integrity after the 2020 presidential election, which was conducted around the country with new rules put in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic. They say the law is designed to increase access for legal voters but make it harder to commit fraud. But Democrats say the new measures are aimed at suppressing the minority vote. And the bitter battle may be about to begin in Texas, where the state Legislature is weighing its own slate of reforms.

Here is how a law that cost Atlanta the Major League Baseball All-Star Game and prompted celebrities and CEOs alike to attack Georgia Republicans as racists stacks up to the way other states conduct their elections:.........To Read More....

So MLB is fine with ball games in Cuba and training in China, but Georgia is the human-rights problem

By Monica Showalter

You could tell that the Major League Baseball (MLB) decision to pull its All-Star game out of Atlanta was a deeply unpopular one, based on the ambivalent reaction of far-left failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.  Here's the money quote from her Twitter statement: ............

After all, isn't she the one who pushed through most of the fraud-enabling laws on the books in Georgia which triggered the recent legislative action?  The blacks-are-too-dumb-to-have-voter-ID idiotic notion, so by extension, nobody should have to show voter ID to vote, even though everyone needs to show ID to buy a beer at an MLB game, or buy a ticket to one?  

She needs to make up her mind.

So which is it?  Not wanting to see families hurt, or being all in for the boycott of Atlanta, which certainly should affect the city tax base?  She wants to have it both ways, boycott but nobody hurt.  That's because unlike MLB, she wants to win public office, and knows that screwing over black businesses, which will get it in the teeth with this MLB maneuver, is going to make her unpopular.

Here's the MLB statement:..... Abrams's response is just the tip of the iceberg of the hypocrisy and contradictions seen from this MLB maneuver — stiffing black-owned American small businesses just emerging from a pandemic to protest a U.S. law they are perfectly free to campaign for to change otherwise through elections, or else playing the ball game without politics and drawing a big audience.  Which is it for them?  And by the way, how many of their baseball players are American citizens?...............To Read More..

Voter I.D. and What Leftists Really Think About Black Americans

By Rich Kozlovich

On Apr 2, 2021 Amanda Prestigiacomo posted this piece,  Watch: Black Americans Debunk Liberal Talking Point That Voter ID Is ‘Racist’: ‘They’re Ignorant’.  The article makes it clear it isn't black Americans who promote the idea black Americans don't have, and can't get I.D.s.   It's the liberals, leftists, white elites and black race hustlers who promote this clabber telling Ami Horowitz these voter I.D. laws are racist.  

Why are voter I.D. laws racist?  Here's what they had to say:  

• Black Americans allegedly lack access to the internet 
  
• Don't know how to use it
• Don't know where their local DMV is
• Don't know how to find their DMV
• Don't live in areas with easy access to the DMV
• Don't know how or where to get an I.D.
• Blacks aren't informed
• Blacks not aware, and finally 
• Convicted felons can't vote and since blacks have a lot of convicted felons that makes voter I.D. laws racist.
  

Wow!  That's seems to sound racist to me. Did I miss something?  Am I the only one who thinks that seems racist?   The black Americans interviewed by Ami Horowitz in Harlem, had this to say: 

Everyone they know has an I.D. and everyone they know has access to the internet......know how to use it, including their kids, and use it all the time.  When told these leftist's views one black woman thought it was weird and another thought that this whole argument is weird, and one wanted to know if “this some trick candid camera thing?” Everyone knew where the DMV was and how to get there.

But that's all on the surface.  What's the real thrust of this article?  What should be taken from this piece?  Answer: What white liberals, leftists and race hustlers really think about blacks.  

Horowitz then asked this question to her black interviewees: “What does that say to you for people that have this perception of black people?”  And their answers were:

“They’re pretty much ignorant,” “Ignorant, very, very ignorant,” "What people are they talking to? Who are these people talking to?” “I think it is a little racist, because you’re putting people in a category and you have no idea what you’re talking about,” “Maybe a little bit of racism in it, but like I said, I think it’s more stupidity."

Well, one thing is clear from the comments made by these leftist elites at Berkeley, they have no respect for black Americans. It seems clear to me they think black Americans are a dumb, lazy, ignorant, and criminal element in American society.

So, who are the real racists here?  

Is it the conservatives, white and minority conservatives, who merely insist everyone be responsible in their actions, including black Americans.  Is it conservatives who feel everyone who is eligible to vote, including black Americans, is totally capable of that kind of civic responsibility?   Or is it the leftist elites, including black Democrat operatives, who insist blacks are incapable of that very basic level of civic duty?

Go to the original piece to see the video.  One thing came through clear as a bell to me, and that was the level of self satisfied, smug, arrogant racism of the Berkeley white leftist elitists. A view that's apparently shared by Major League Baseball, Delta Airlines, Coca Cola and a host of Hollywood hypocrites. 

They're the real racists!   Let's cut to the chase and face reality. This isn't really about fairness. It certainly isn't about race.  It's about voter fraud, and Democrats unending efforts to supplant and overcome the legitimate vote in America and the actual will of America's citizens with fraudulently won elections.  All in order to gain the power to eliminate the American identity, the American culture, the American economy and the Constitution, and impose a socialist system of world wide governance under the auspices of the United Nations.  

It really is that simple!

 

Kentucky lawmakers strike down veto, pass voter ID law

By Mike Fussell | April 14, 2020 

A veto made by Governor Andy Beshear opposing a voter ID law was defeated in the state legislature.  Lawmakers in both the Kentucky House and Senate voted to override Beshear’s veto of SB 2.  Republican state lawmakers called the proposed voter ID law one of their top priorities at the beginning of the 2020 legislative session.  Proponents said it would increase confidence in the state's elections by preventing fraud, but Democrats are claim that problem doesn't exist, adding the bill would keep legal voters from heading to the polls.  Voters would need a photo ID to cast a ballot in-person or through the mail. Senate Bill 2 also lays out a process to provide free IDs to people in need.........To Read More....

Paging Eric Holder (again): Hundreds of thousands of illegal votes are cast every year

By Doug Powers  October 26, 2014

The headline for this article at WaPo should be “in case you were wondering the real reason Dems are opposed to voter ID laws…”How many non-citizens participate in U.S. elections? More than 14 percent of non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were registered to vote. Furthermore, some of these non-citizens voted. Our best guess, based upon extrapolations from the portion of the sample with a verified vote, is that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010……But according to Eric Holder, voter ID laws are “unnecessary restrictions that discourage and discriminate or that disenfranchise in the name of a problem that doesn’t exist.” Hey, if the majority of those illegal votes were going towards Republicans Holder would probably have the same position (pause for laughter)…..To Read More…..

Democrats Assault on Voter Id Laws a Tired Argument

December 9, 2013 by Sean Aland

Once again a Democrat has proven who the real racists in our country are, members of the Democratic Party. In the recent episode of the Democrats pandering-for-vote’s scheme, Congresswoman Marcia Fudge has asked the Attorney General (AG) to review the new voting measures in Ohio claiming they are racist. This is rich as the AG had no desire to investigate or press charges as was seen in the videotaped voter suppression and intimidation concerning the new Black Panther party that took place in the 2008 election. 

The AG’s response was to ignore the case and refuse to press charges and prosecute even though it was a slam dunk. So now any actions the AG takes regarding voter rights are already called into question as political theatre and gerrymandering. Fudge’s belief is that the new measures will in her words “suppress the voting rights of African Americans and other minorities.” Her concern is that the elderly, Blacks, other minorities, and students will have restricted access because of the voter ID laws.......Read more at

Government employee union boss calls for thug tactics against voter ID

Charles C. Johnson

J. David Cox, the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, pledged to ignore the Supreme Court and said that he and the labor movement would “fight in the streets” against Republican governors’ supporters of voter integrity efforts.

“I’m committing myself, I’m committing our union, and the labor movement. We will not — we will not — allow Republican governors to control the vote in this country,” he said to applause. “That is a God-given right of every citizen. The right to vote! We are going to fight ‘em. We’re going to fight them in the streets. We are going to fight them anywhere. We are going to fight them! I don’t care what the Supreme Court says.....To Read More....