Voter Fraud Is Rampant, And Democrats Ignore It
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Posted 11/04/2014 06:26 PM ET
Voters casts their ballots at a polling place in Thornton, Colo., on Tuesday. AP
Voters casts their ballots at a polling place in Thornton, Colo., on Tuesday. AP View Enlarged Image
Purloined Democracy: Amid growing signs of voter fraud across the nation, the question isn't whether it's happening, but how widespread it is ? and why the media refuse to treat it as the serious problem it is.
Voter fraud is as old as our republic, but it's become rampant in recent years. And it can easily be solved by requiring all those who vote to show some kind of ID ? as you do, say, to cash a check or drive a car.
Yet the left and the mainstream media accuse anyone who wants honest elections of "voter suppression."
Why? It's widely presumed by liberals that getting as many people as possible to vote benefits them. So by fraud or by force they "get out the vote."
As Stephen Hayward at Power Line notes, "Bring up the (fraud) question, or suggest we need voter ID at the polls like every other advanced democracy, and the answer will be instantly supplied: You're a racist."
The truth of that statement was shown Tuesday as Attorney General Eric Holder deployed "monitors" in 18 states looking for signs of "racial discrimination" in voting. It's a political move, plain and simple, meant to send a message that the GOP is irretrievably racist.
(This is the same Eric Holder who dismissed charges against the Black Panthers for voter intimidation in the 2008 election, despite strong evidence it took place.)
And all this fraud is well documented.
As we recently noted, a study in the journal Electoral Studies found that noncitizen voting in U.S. elections "has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes, including Electoral College votes and congressional elections."
In another new report ? "Does Your Vote Count?" ? the Heritage Foundation documents more than 200 instances of voter fraud around the country.
Just last week, guerrilla filmmaker James O'Keefe filmed himself getting 20 ballots in North Carolina without proper ID or evidence of registration.
This is how the left steals elections.
Such fraud doesn't stand alone. It goes hand in hand with other tried-and-true Democrat get-out-the-vote ploys: motor voter registration, day-of registration, mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines.
So what, you say. Isn't more participation better?
No. In fact, some people shouldn't vote. Those who won't take the time to learn about issues and candidates, for instance. Noncitizens. Serious felons. People who have to be bribed or threatened to vote. And those who could easily get a legal ID, but won't bother.
So forgive us for disagreeing when Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, who calls voter fraud a "phantom menace," says voting should be "mandatory."
Such practices corrupt our democracy and cheapen our votes. Voting is a precious privilege, not an obligation. It's too important to be made easy ? or fraudulent.
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183 Comments
Posted 11/04/2014 06:26 PM ET
Voters casts their ballots at a polling place in Thornton, Colo., on Tuesday. AP
Voters casts their ballots at a polling place in Thornton, Colo., on Tuesday. AP View Enlarged Image
Purloined Democracy: Amid growing signs of voter fraud across the nation, the question isn't whether it's happening, but how widespread it is ? and why the media refuse to treat it as the serious problem it is.
Voter fraud is as old as our republic, but it's become rampant in recent years. And it can easily be solved by requiring all those who vote to show some kind of ID ? as you do, say, to cash a check or drive a car.
Yet the left and the mainstream media accuse anyone who wants honest elections of "voter suppression."
Why? It's widely presumed by liberals that getting as many people as possible to vote benefits them. So by fraud or by force they "get out the vote."
As Stephen Hayward at Power Line notes, "Bring up the (fraud) question, or suggest we need voter ID at the polls like every other advanced democracy, and the answer will be instantly supplied: You're a racist."
The truth of that statement was shown Tuesday as Attorney General Eric Holder deployed "monitors" in 18 states looking for signs of "racial discrimination" in voting. It's a political move, plain and simple, meant to send a message that the GOP is irretrievably racist.
(This is the same Eric Holder who dismissed charges against the Black Panthers for voter intimidation in the 2008 election, despite strong evidence it took place.)
And all this fraud is well documented.
As we recently noted, a study in the journal Electoral Studies found that noncitizen voting in U.S. elections "has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes, including Electoral College votes and congressional elections."
In another new report ? "Does Your Vote Count?" ? the Heritage Foundation documents more than 200 instances of voter fraud around the country.
Just last week, guerrilla filmmaker James O'Keefe filmed himself getting 20 ballots in North Carolina without proper ID or evidence of registration.
This is how the left steals elections.
Such fraud doesn't stand alone. It goes hand in hand with other tried-and-true Democrat get-out-the-vote ploys: motor voter registration, day-of registration, mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines.
So what, you say. Isn't more participation better?
No. In fact, some people shouldn't vote. Those who won't take the time to learn about issues and candidates, for instance. Noncitizens. Serious felons. People who have to be bribed or threatened to vote. And those who could easily get a legal ID, but won't bother.
So forgive us for disagreeing when Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, who calls voter fraud a "phantom menace," says voting should be "mandatory."
Such practices corrupt our democracy and cheapen our votes. Voting is a precious privilege, not an obligation. It's too important to be made easy ? or fraudulent.
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