Marcus Aurelius
08-20-2013, 07:57 AM
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/08/20/for-democrats-turnout-trumps-h
In Colorado, the results of Democrats valuing election “turnout” over electoral honesty — or even common sense — are becoming clear.
Among the many mindless laws passed on party-line votes during Colorado’s recent hyper-partisan legislative session — both chambers of the legislature being controlled by Democrats — is HB-1303 (http://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2013A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/0F25BA96A1C5D81E87257AEE005819A6?Open&file=1303_enr.pdf), the “Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act.” The Act is a poorly considered measure designed to maximize Democrats’ advantage in elections, not least by maximizing the potential for voter fraud — which Democrats have proven far more adept at than Republicans for at least two generations.
Supporters of the bill claim that county election clerks widely supported the bill, but Wayne Williams, the Clerk and Recorder of El Paso County (the state’s most populous county) voiced a strong objection (http://news.elpasoco.com/Pages/default.aspx?ReleaseID=922), later adding that “there is no way to run a check through federal immigration or a felon database on election day.”
It’s not just about confused thinking, such as requiring mail-in voting in recall elections despite a state constitutional right to candidate ballot access up to 15 days before the election — which makes mail-in ballot delivery somewhere between impractical and impossible, especially for overseas absentee and military voters.
Instead, the law seems aimed at enabling manipulation and fraud.
In a related vein, the law makes it more difficult to remove “inactive” voters from the rolls, increasing the chance that a ballot will be cast by someone other than the intended Coloradoan. If you are skeptical at the chances of this happening, note that many states, including Colorado (http://www.redstate.com/2012/09/04/colorado-counties-have-more-voters-than-people/), Utah (http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/54657309-90/counties-county-group-names.html.csp), Illinois (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/21/illinois-counties-have-mo_n_852141.html), Mississippi (http://www.msnewsnow.com/global/story.asp?s=9248483), Nebraska (http://www.knlvradio.com/Some-Nebraska-Counties-Have-More-Registered-Voters/14989889), and Ohio (http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2012/09/ohio_voter_registration_list_i.html), have counties with more registered voters than residents. Yet in every case Democrats oppose scrubbing the rolls of ineligible (including dead and otherwise non-existent) voters because every extra ballot is an opportunity to steal an election.
It is not difficult to vote in the United States. If someone doesn’t care enough to register more than a month before an election, if someone is one of the minuscule number of Americans without any form of government-issued ID and doesn’t care enough about voting to get one for that purpose, if someone is desperate to vote many weeks before an election despite the possibility of so much more information becoming known, he simply shouldn’t be voting.
In Colorado, the results of Democrats valuing election “turnout” over electoral honesty — or even common sense — are becoming clear.
Among the many mindless laws passed on party-line votes during Colorado’s recent hyper-partisan legislative session — both chambers of the legislature being controlled by Democrats — is HB-1303 (http://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2013A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/0F25BA96A1C5D81E87257AEE005819A6?Open&file=1303_enr.pdf), the “Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act.” The Act is a poorly considered measure designed to maximize Democrats’ advantage in elections, not least by maximizing the potential for voter fraud — which Democrats have proven far more adept at than Republicans for at least two generations.
Supporters of the bill claim that county election clerks widely supported the bill, but Wayne Williams, the Clerk and Recorder of El Paso County (the state’s most populous county) voiced a strong objection (http://news.elpasoco.com/Pages/default.aspx?ReleaseID=922), later adding that “there is no way to run a check through federal immigration or a felon database on election day.”
It’s not just about confused thinking, such as requiring mail-in voting in recall elections despite a state constitutional right to candidate ballot access up to 15 days before the election — which makes mail-in ballot delivery somewhere between impractical and impossible, especially for overseas absentee and military voters.
Instead, the law seems aimed at enabling manipulation and fraud.
In a related vein, the law makes it more difficult to remove “inactive” voters from the rolls, increasing the chance that a ballot will be cast by someone other than the intended Coloradoan. If you are skeptical at the chances of this happening, note that many states, including Colorado (http://www.redstate.com/2012/09/04/colorado-counties-have-more-voters-than-people/), Utah (http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/54657309-90/counties-county-group-names.html.csp), Illinois (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/21/illinois-counties-have-mo_n_852141.html), Mississippi (http://www.msnewsnow.com/global/story.asp?s=9248483), Nebraska (http://www.knlvradio.com/Some-Nebraska-Counties-Have-More-Registered-Voters/14989889), and Ohio (http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2012/09/ohio_voter_registration_list_i.html), have counties with more registered voters than residents. Yet in every case Democrats oppose scrubbing the rolls of ineligible (including dead and otherwise non-existent) voters because every extra ballot is an opportunity to steal an election.
It is not difficult to vote in the United States. If someone doesn’t care enough to register more than a month before an election, if someone is one of the minuscule number of Americans without any form of government-issued ID and doesn’t care enough about voting to get one for that purpose, if someone is desperate to vote many weeks before an election despite the possibility of so much more information becoming known, he simply shouldn’t be voting.