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Bring Out Yer Dead!
A new book on voter fraud demonstrates that what’s good for Monty Python is bad for reliable elections.
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Who’s Counting? concludes with a chapter that enumerates reasonable measures state and local governments — and citizens — can take “to safeguard America’s elections and improve the integrity of the process.” These include voter identification laws, “a basic requirement for secure elections” that “should be implemented in all states.” In addition, the authors propose steps to assure that all voters are citizens, to reduce the likelihood of absentee ballot fraud, to provide for robust voter registration databases, and to increase information sharing among states to eliminate duplicate registrations and otherwise keep the lists clean.
In their concluding recommendations, the authors urge that we avoid “any attempt to create artificial barriers to voter participation,” while recognizing that “citizenship requires orderly, clear, and vigorous procedures to ensure that the integrity of our elections is maintained.”
This is an excellent primer on vote fraud and election issues, which I heartily commend to readers on both sides of today’s political divide.
About the Author
Ray V. Hartwell, III is a Washington lawyer and a senior fellow at the Alabama Policy Institute.
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Portsmouth Compact| 8.14.12 @ 6:37AM
You can see the authors on video at Heritage's bloggers' briefing last week at http://blog.heritage.org/2012/.....spakovsky/
Correction: Mexico had to wait till 2000 (not 1970) to end the longest one party rule on earth.
LarryK| 8.14.12 @ 9:02AM
If arrested for voter fraud-
1. The trial must take place within 7 days
2. Jury must be comprised of honorably discharged veterans of the opposite political party of the accused.
The penalty for voter fraud is too lenient.
If convicted of voter fraud the guilty should:
1. Be publicly flogged with 13 lashes.
2. Be made to crawl through Arlington National Cemetery.
3. Disemboweled
4. Head removed and placed on a pike.
5. All of their assets seized.
6. Immediate family stripped of U.S. Citizenship and deported.
I think after 1 or 2 such cases, voter fraud would become a think of the past.
NedB| 8.14.12 @ 11:37AM
Way to lenient.
LarryK| 8.14.12 @ 3:51PM
NedB,
I forgot to mention that while crawling (#2) guilty party to be zapped with cattle prods.
Yea, still too lenient!
Occam's Tool| 8.14.12 @ 10:43AM
The BIG problem that I see for the Romney/Ryan campaign is that it is too nice. Without going into illegalities, they need a dirty tricks department. A new and disgusting factoid should be released and documented about, say, Valerie Jarrett every week. If Obama frequented a gay bathhouse in Chicago, that needs to be documented and publicized---strictly by "uncontrollable PACs," of course, so that Romney can condemn such tactics.
But there needs to be dirty, nad punching fighting going on here. Negative campaigning works, and Obama is VERY sensitive to it.
MK48| 8.14.12 @ 11:34AM
OT.......I have that video.....the 2 were holding hands walking in.
Stephanie| 8.14.12 @ 2:40PM
Absolutely OT! Absolutely. Been saying this for the last 3 elections. Turn their gutter politics back on them and let them have a taste of the ole Chi-town way.
Petronius| 8.14.12 @ 11:01AM
The most blatant tactic isn't mentioned; short reporting. The Democrat machines in the cities don't report full results until the rural areas have entered all of theirs. Then the election judges who are all Democrat controlled, forge voters signatures and vote how many ballots they need to win. Ask Dickless Gephart. He got away with it for 20 years.
RJ| 8.14.12 @ 12:26PM
Having read John Fund's "Stealing Elections," I am looking forward to reading this one. It is a major issue. The integrity of our democratic Republic depends on legitimate elections. Sadly, much of our election laws seemed to be designed to allow voter fraud. I wish our system was a good as Mexico's.
Indy| 8.14.12 @ 12:28PM
Please get involved, there is much you can do from your home computer
http://www.truethevote.org/
atilla| 8.14.12 @ 12:47PM
the states that don't have voter ID laws should be prohibited from voting in national elections...case closed
ALSO, ANYONE DRAWING ANY PUBLIC ASSISTANCE FUNDS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO VOTE UNTIL THEY ARE OFF THE DOLE FOR ONE ELECTION CYCLE.....DO AWAY WITH VOTE BUYING FOREVER.
cicero| 8.14.12 @ 5:02PM
OCCAM - Rather than resorting the the dirty trick game, I suggest that a member of the campaign party follow Obama and Biden around (as suggested by Gingrich), and after every speech, give a rebuttal within a half hour, giving the lie to whatever they say. In addition, ridicule has a place in such matters. Most of the Dem talking points are just shy of rediculous, and should be held up to scorn as soon as possible. That way, the big lie theory of campaigning will be pulled up short. In the long run, truth should be the most potent weapon in the arsenal. Reagan showed that it works.
RJ| 8.14.12 @ 5:26PM
Fully agree with you about the long-term power of truth and the use of ridicule. Hold them accountable for their own words. Humorous ridicule is the best way to disable fools.
Indy| 8.14.12 @ 7:02PM
"Today Florida is holding a primary election. I’ve learned that 1,100 voters who requested absentee ballots either did not get them or received them too late because the United States Postal Service treated the ballots as third class mail. 800 voters in Indian River County and 300 voters in Martin County were affected. Contests in Martin County include Alan West’s primary challenge as well as a U.S. Senate race, state house, state senate, school superintendents, sheriff and more. Florida law does not permit electronic return of the completed ballots by fax or email. That means that about 1,100 voters who specifically sought to participate in the primary today, can’t. More at my blog electionlawcenter.com."
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012.....ers-today/
Marie| 8.15.12 @ 1:50PM
I'm going to have to read this book.