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Fund: ‘We Need Voter
ID Laws Now’
by Breitbart News
Attorney General Eric Holder has done everything in his power to
prevent voters from showing ID at polling places. He’s moved to block
states like Texas from implementing voter ID laws. But, as voting fraud
expert John Fund writes today, “When groups sue to block photo-ID laws
in court, they can’t seem to produce real-world examples of people who
have actually been denied the right to vote. According to opinion
polls, over 75 percent of Americans — including majorities of Hispanics
and African-Americans — routinely support such laws.”
But that doesn’t stop Holder’s opposition. And Holder’s opposition
simply makes voting fraud easier, as Fund writes:
Filmmaker James O’Keefe demonstrated just how easy it is on Tuesday
when he dispatched an assistant to the Nebraska Avenue polling place in
Washington where Attorney General Holder has been registered for the
last 29 years. O’Keefe specializes in the same use of hidden cameras
that was pioneered by the recently deceased Mike Wallace, who used the
technique to devastating effect in exposing fraud in Medicare claims
and consumer products on 60 Minutes. O’Keefe’s efforts helped expose
the fraud-prone voter-registration group ACORN with his video stings,
and has had great success demonstrating this year in New Hampshire,
Vermont, and Minnesota just how easy it is to obtain a ballot by giving
the name of a dead person who is still on the rolls. Indeed, a new
study by the Pew Research Center found at least 1.8 million dead people
are still registered to vote. They aren’t likely to complain if someone
votes in their place.
Fund also notes that nothing O’Keefe did was illegal—a point that the
left will no doubt ignore in their rush to smear O’Keefe.
This is not a right-left issue, Fund notes. It’s a basic fairness
one—people should only vote in their own name.
“From voter fraud to election chicanery of all kinds, America teeters
on the edge of scandal every November,” says Larry Sabato, the director
of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia and author of
a comprehensive survey of voter fraud called “Dirty Little Secrets.”
The fact that so many people want to thwart legitimate and prudent
efforts to improve ballot integrity has become a scandal in its own
right. Attorney General Holder is unlikely to agree with that, but
after what happened at his polling place last Tuesday, he should at
least understand that voter fraud itself is a scandal worth
investigating.
But the chances of Holder admitting the problem are nil, since the left
is so bound and detrermined to excuse voter fraud.
related articles:
O’Keefe Voter Fraud Investigation: Young Man Offered Holder’s Ballot
Holder’s DOJ: Evidence of Voter Fraud ‘Manufactured’
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