NY Times – Real Voters Not Permitted At The Polls
Doing my daily graze at the New York Times I found – Keep Away the Vote – Clearly the Times is getting ready for the mid-term election results.
For a paper that considers itself the “paper of record†this is simply a pitiful editorial.
The actual reason for this bill is the political calculus that certain kinds of people — the poor, minorities, disabled people and the elderly — are less likely to have valid ID. They are less likely to have cars, and therefore to have drivers’ licenses. There are ways for nondrivers to get special ID cards, but the bill’s supporters know that many people will not go to the effort if they don’t need them to drive.
After complaining about the 2000 and 2004 elections the Times editorial staff now indicates that “the poor, minorities, disabled people and the elderly†do not have the gumption or ability to obtain an appropriate ID card. This is an outright insult to Americans who wish to exercise their rights.
Apparently the Times will go to great lengths to assure that the Democrats are “represented†in the electorate.
The bill was sold as a means of deterring vote fraud, but that is a phony argument. There is no evidence that a significant number of people are showing up at the polls pretending to be other people, or that a significant number of noncitizens are voting.
The Times clearly ignores the legal problems from the last election when a number of “people†were registered illegally. What is “significant� 50,000 or 100,000 or?
It is time to purge the voter rolls and start over.
Noncitizens, particularly undocumented ones, are so wary of getting into trouble with the law that it is hard to imagine them showing up in any numbers and trying to vote. The real threat of voter fraud on a large scale lies with electronic voting, a threat Congress has refused to do anything about.
The Times has never presented evidence in support of its claim that noncitizens don’t vote. Simply pitiful. The complaint about electronic voting, touch screens, is the creation of Congress simply because some Democrat counties in Florida were unable to create a simple paper ballot.
The Times is simply preparing the public for it’s (the Times) failure to pull off a mid-term election landslide.
This is a simple problem that is easily cured. If you are receiving Social Security, Medicaid, public assistance (that is what the Times thinks of the people noted in the editorial) you must have a form of identification. You can’t open a bank account or cash a check without identification. Utility companies require identification. It is clear that the Times editorial board is filled with elitists.
There is but one caveat. The government, state or federal, must pay for the ID Cards; they must be easy to obtain – let the Census Bureau do the leg work; let minorities do the work in minority communities so that they claim of discrimination or intimidation is eliminated; and the political parties may NOT be involved in the process.
The bottom line, again, is the Times is afraid that the Democrats will lose registered voters. The Times does not fear a loss in registration for the Republicans. The independent voter group is growing and this is not good for the journalists and members of the progressive movement.
Real Voters need not cast a ballot, that is what this editorial is telling Americans.
It is time to clean up the system which includes a clean up of the voter rolls. Lets make sure that we have real paper ballots completed by real voters. Those ballots can be counted by optical scan.
