Tuesday, October 24, 2006

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.

5 comments:

Brian said...

Blacks and Hispanics can't afford the $15 for ID because of Bush's tax cuts for the rich. If Bush hadn't gone to war for oil, women would be able to afford an ID instead of having to choose between milk and bread for the kids or heat for their house.

Anonymous said...

That's very witty. Meanwhile, in the real world, in the battleground state of Virginia, three jurisdictions will get to see two Senate candidates: "George F. Allen" and "James H. Jim."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/23/AR2006102301178.html

But by all means, keep on pretending that it's the annual "Elvis Presley" and "Donald Duck" voter registrations that are the most egregious evidence of fraud, disenfranchisement, and ineptitude.

Anonymous said...

Blacks and Hispanics can't afford the $15 for ID because of Bush's tax cuts for the rich. If Bush hadn't gone to war for oil, women would be able to afford an ID instead of having to choose between milk and bread for the kids or heat for their house.

I love the way you make fun of the other side, and the way they embrace absurd conspiracies.

It's nice to see the right taking time away from its media blitz about how the Democrats knew all about Mark Foley (but diabolically sat on the info for years, in order to unveil it just before the elections).

JorgXMcKie said...

ID voting in StLouis would probably lower the turnout from the 104% or so in 2004 to a mere 101%.

Anonymous said...

Oh, you mean that burning 500-vote "late polls" scandal that ended up being a fraction of the margin of victory? And which was OK'd by a GOP-appointed judge? Yeah, that was awful.

Meanwhile, if Jim Webb brings his ID to the right jurisdiction, it won't even match his name on the electronic ballot.