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Ambrose: The progressive campaign for voter fraud
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Contributor | Jason |
Last Edited | Jason Mar 23, 2012 06:18am |
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Category | Opinion |
Author | Jay Ambrose |
News Date | Friday, March 23, 2012 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | It’s time to get to the root of all the consternation about states requiring photo IDs to vote: The progressives, it seems to me, want to cheat. They hope to have illegal aliens and other ineligible sorts hasten to the polls to help elect Democrats come November.
I hate to sound so suspicious of all those handwringers on TV telling us that attempts to stop ballot-box shenanigans are a conspiracy to deny a sacred right to the old, the lame, minorities and the poor. Maybe these people are just paranoid — the left is that way these days — but the arguments are so preposterous that you figure many could themselves be up to some grand mischief.
Their worry isn’t just that you need a photo ID to get a beer, drive a car or fly on a plane. It’s that states enacting new election laws are making it easy and cheap or even free to obtain a photo ID. These are very nearly the opposite of the Jim Crow atrocities by which Southern blacks got to vote only if all bigoted enforcers miraculously fell dead on the spot. The new laws are just.
The laws are so wonderfully just, in fact, that they appear to be the reason for higher voter turnouts in some states, some suggesting that faith in the electoral system has been restored. But Attorney General Eric Holder and others fretting about rights interventions do not mention that phenomenon, even though, by some of their other actions, they signal that Hispanic votes, legal or otherwise, are growing in number and importance. |
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