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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case involving Indiana’s Voter ID law. The law requires voters show a government picture ID before they vote. State Democrats challenged the law saying it was unconstitutional and disenfranchised poor and minority voters. Republicans say it was necessary to prevent voter fraud. The court will hear the case early next year. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law last year.
It will be interesting to see this develop in the election backdrop next year. However, I can’t but help notice a little bit of hypocrisy by some of my Democratic friends who claimed voter ID would disenfranchise thousands of voters, even though they couldn’t produce one person who was turned away from the polls and on top of that they had more than 10,000 straight ticket voters in Marion County in last November’s election who apparently had no problem voting.
And to add insult to injury, they were quiet as church mice this past May when a number of polling places didn’t open in Marion County and at least 3500 identifiable voters were disenfranchised because their polling places never opened.
Court is now definitely in session.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
It’s a little thing called showing responsibility for your actions. Some Dems just pick and choose when they want take and identify that responsibility around here. If you’re going to stand up for something, you better be darn ready to make sure it happens when you’re in power, or else it will most likely come back to bite you in the “you know what”.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
don’t worry…they are about to be bit hard this November.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
You’re right Abdul. Those who are opposed to voter ID say “What if you lose your ID on the way to the polls?” and those in favor of Voter ID say “What if your poll never opened?”
September 25th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
I heard the Indiana ACLU guy on the radio saying that the only voter fraud that has ever occurred was for absentee votes, and that was his main and only argument. I remember hearing that some people have tried to vote twice, etc? Does anyone else remember this.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Marion County has had voter fraud in elections by knowing Democrats, however they looked the other way when complaints were filed. No, nothing was ever done about it as long as the handpicked candidates won the Primary or general Elections. Voting people in precincts where they do not live is fraud. Say it is so Julia Carson?
September 25th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
The law suit was a laugh! Read it: The Democrats actually have a BMV employee from the Meadows BMV branch (where they made the fraud arrests of BMV employees) named Connie who said that she “couldn’t get ID” in deposition, Connie admitted she had a driver’s license.
The Federal Judge stated that the Democrats case was the equivalent of throwing wet tissue at the wall to see if it will stick.
I hope the Supremes issue more than a rebuke to the Democrats!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Due to cover-ups the frauds of the Dems have not come to light. Voter ID stopped them dead. They used to send buses around from the old folks home and bums on the street promised a brick of Richard’s Wild Irish Rose if they said they were a name on their poll list and voted a ticket.
Proving it beyond a “reasonable” doubt is impossible because you cannot track the offender without Voter ID!!!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
One would think that with the many years of tough Marion County Republican County Prosecutors Goldsmith, Newman and Brizzi that surely one of them would have indicted somebody for Voter ID Fraud - but you’d be wrong!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
I actually think doing the thing they did in Baghdad where you dip your thumb in indellible ink might work even better than the Voter ID law, but seeing as how some people can’t even get behind a Voter ID law they would think an inkblot on your thumb was synonymous with a scarlet letter. Heaven forbid!
September 26th, 2007 at 9:08 am
First, isn’t Wilson banned from this blog? Second, Wilson’s wrong. You can’t prosecute someone for voter fraud when you can’t prove who that person was! Before voter ID you could enter the poll and pick any name on the poll list (supplied by the Dems) and vote. Nobody could file a criminal charge because you could not be tracked down as to your true identity to file a voter fraud charge. NOW voter ID makes you prove you are who you say you are. It is that simple. Nobody is “disenfranchised” and everybody is protected.
September 26th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Everyone is potentially disenfranchised when Beth White runs an election.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Bart Peterson, Beth White, Monroe Gray, Julia Carson, Bill Crawford and the ACLU non of these Democrats have a problem with 5 polling places being closed on election day. This malfunction disenfranchised 3500 registered voters. In a close election whose to say if the margin of win for a candidate was lost in 5 precincts.
It is clear the candidates who won in the Primary were the choices for both Political Parties, neither one contested the election results, nor did the ACLU come to the rescue of these voters.
The Democrap’s lawsuit is based on hearsay and not proof of any voter not being able to vote because of no voter ID, but the number of closed polling sites in Marion County confirmed that citizens who wanted to vote could not vote.
Voter ID will prevent the opportunity for voter fraud per precinct.
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September 26th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
…and wearing tinfoil hats will prevent Martians from sending X-rays to fry your brains too! That’s just as likely as VoterID fraud ever was in Indiana.
September 27th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Objection! Wilson is assuming he has a brain, but it’s not admitted into evidence!!