Thursday, March 24, 2011

More Hate from the Right

ThinkProgress » Ohio House Passes ‘Nation’s Most Restrictive’ Voter ID Law That Would Curb Rights Of Almost 900,000 Ohioans

Republicans hate folks who commit voter fraud. In Ohio and Texas they have passed new restrictive voter registration laws dedicated to stopping it. They hate it so much that they will deny almost a million citizens the opportunity to vote. They hate the seniors, the college students, the homeless, the disabled, and people of color that would be disenfranchised by legislation requiring new forms of identification for voter registration.
 
They hate the fact that most of these disenfranchised voters vote for candidates from the Democratic Party. They hate it so much that they use the shadowy spectre of "voter fraud" to deny the right to vote for millions of United States citizens. I think they also really hate the idea that there just aren't enough good conservative Republican voters to out-vote the Democrats. They hate the idea that they have to work so hard and so strenuously to win by such narrow margins.

According to the Brennan Center for Justice only 4 cases of voter fraud have been found out of more than 9 million votes cast. The problem doesn't exist.  Republicans can't produce any evidence of voter fraud.  There is none.  Republicans BELIEVE that voter fraud is a big problem and then they say, "Prove that voter fraud does not occur."

I repeat, only 4 cases of voter fraud have been proven in over 9 million votes cast from 2002 to 2004.  I think Republicans just hate that.

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