Cleaning up elections in Missouri

Polls across the nation have shown firm support for identification at the voting booth, but every voter ID law has faced court challenges by groups crying “poll tax.” The Opinion Journal editorial explains why voter ID has faced opposition in Missouri in “The Don’t Show Me State.”

But there's a reason that Democrat partisans are more interested in raising the specter of Jim Crow than in protecting the integrity of the voting process. And here's a clue: While the Missouri Supreme Court was preparing its decision earlier this month, the Kansas City Star and St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran front-page stories about the thousands of fraudulent voter registrations submitted by Acorn, a national left-wing group financed in part by organized labor.

According to the Star, Acorn's voter registration drive generated some 35,000 applications, "but thousands of them appear to be duplicates or contain dubious data." The report went on to note that "[n]ear the top of the fishy list would be a man named Mark who apparently registered seven times over a three-day period using his mother's home address and phone number." Mom told the paper he hadn't lived there in six years.

Acorn and its affiliates have been among the most active and vocal opponents of voter ID laws in Missouri and nationwide. Now we know why.

This is all part and parcel of the Left’s idea of “fair game.”

Extra – Betsy has much more on Missouri and the voter ID argument.