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Dead voters prove the need for photo ID at the polls
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jan 27, 2012 03:22pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, January 26, 2012 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | NEW YORK -- Liberals love to laugh off voter fraud. It’s “a made-up problem invented by GOP operatives,” Robert Koehler snickered in the January 5 Huffington Post. Regarding ballot hijinks, Democratic National Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz chuckled: “There is almost none.”
But recent news is not so funny. One probe caught on tape how easily anybody can vote on behalf of dead Americans. Elsewhere, the total ballots cast by the dead exceeded the winning margins in several high-profile elections. These cases confirm the urgent need for all voters to prove that they are alive and correctly identify themselves via photo ID -- just as Americans do on non-election days.
James O’Keefe -- the conservative video journalist whose hidden-camera sting operation doomed ACORN -- struck again during the New Hampshire primary. O’Keefe’s organization, Project Veritas, dispatched three videographers to the Granite State. On January 10, they visited precincts in Manchester and Nashua and asked poll workers, one by one, if their voter rolls bore the names of several deceased people. Believing that O’Keefe’s collaborators were those registered, the poll workers handed out 10 ballots, never once asking for photo ID. |
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