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Thu 21 Sep 2006 6:57
by Kevin McGehee
43° and clear
in Coweta County, GA
[Courting Disaster]
[Yippee-Ki-Yay!]
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There’s a power struggle going on in Georgia between the people’s elected representatives on the one hand, and state and federal judges on the other who seem to think it’s better to let illegal aliens and dead people vote than to ensure legitimacy to our electoral process. And now Congress is weighing in.
The House yesterday passed legislation that would require voters to show a valid photo identification in federal elections over the overwhelming objections of Democrats who compared the bill to segregation-era measures aimed at disenfranchising Southern blacks.» Washington Times: House bill to require voter ID
Get that? Stopping those constitutionally ineligible to vote (like non-citizens, the deceased, and those who have already voted somewhere else) from voting, is exactly like trying to thwart the 1964 Voting Rights Act.
But Democrats, siding with groups that work on behalf of minorities and illegal aliens, called the bill a “modern-day poll tax” and said it would place an insurmountable burden on voters and infringe upon their voting rights.
Rep. Brian Bilbray, California Republican, countered that the real infringement upon voting rights would be allowing fraudulent votes by the dead or illegal “to cancel out legitimate votes.“
“That is the violation of the Voters Rights Act that we have not addressed,“ he told colleagues before the vote.
Democrats, who have long demanded reforms to the federal voting process, yesterday dismissed Republican concerns about voter fraud.
“Show me the examples of the problem you’re trying to solve,“ demanded Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat who accused Republicans of trying to appeal to the “fear and—yes, perhaps—the prejudices of people.“
The prejudices of those who think only live U.S. citizens should be allowed to vote in U.S. elections—and those only once.
You’re a light socket, Steny.
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