In hopes of a Happy New Year for all, I'm heeding this alert from Tea Party Nation: "We can rally until the cows come home but if we do not eliminate voter fraud, nothing matters." With that thought in mind, here's a heads-up, at least for me:
"In Illinois, today if you need to buy drain cleaner or other caustic substances, you must show a government issued ID and you will be entered into a database. The impetus for the law was attacks on two women where acid was poured on them and they were badly scarred. Chicago Democrat Representative Jack Franks pushed this measure and the bill sailed through the Democrat controlled state legislature."
When something bad happens, why not punish wrongdoers instead of law-abiding citizens? Two people were attacked out of a city of 2.7 million and now if you need to get something to unplug your drain not only do you have to show a photo ID but you must also end up on a government database. Why? And what's up with the Chicago state legislature forcing law abiding people to produce a photo ID to buy drain cleaner while resisting all efforts to require a photo ID to vote? Could all this have something to do with these reports of voter fraud discovered in other states?
"In Colorado, the Attorney General discovered almost 12,000 illegal aliens registered to vote. In the 2010 election, at least 5,000 of them did. In December 2011, four Democrat Party officials from Troy, New York entered guilty pleas to voter fraud. In Tunica County, Mississippi, a Democrat official was sentenced to five years in prison for voter fraud. In the last two years, ACORN itself and former ACORN officials were convicted in Nevada for voter fraud. ACORN submitted as many as 60,000 fraudulent voter registrations. They even registered the entire starting line up of the Dallas Cowboys as voters in Nevada."
It couldn't hurt, right now, to remember that Stalin said, "I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how." In 2006, George Bush extended the Voting Rights act for 25 years. The original bill passed almost 50 years ago only covers southern states with a history of disenfranchising minorities. We need to revise the Voting Rights Act to focus on eliminating opportunities to engage in voter fraud. For instance, while neither Tennessee nor Texas need to be under the scope of this law, Illinois, Nevada and Wisconsin clearly do if we want only legal votes to count in future American elections.
Governor Perry's razor sharp focus on seeing that our federal government sticks to its Constitutional business, including taking us back to a part time U.S. Congress, looks likely to make cheating less profitable for everyone. In any case, I'm glad to see the march going on these days to do a better job of preserving the great promise for the world of our American Republic.
