Monthly Archives: May 2012

More Holder Hypocrisy: “Anti-Voter ID Democrats require Voter ID for Michigan Caucus”


“This weekend, the Michigan Democratic Party will be holding its caucuses to formally nominate Barack Obama as president. What do Democratic caucus voters need to vote? A photo ID.”


 


- What to expect: Bring proof that you live in the area served by the caucus location – photo ID is required.


 


“By Mr. Holder’s standards then, President Obama’s party is engaged in voter suppression, targeting heavily black voting precincts like Detroit and Pontiac. Will Holder allies like the NAACP and the George Soros-funded Brennan Center, who claim without evidence that voter ID laws hurt minorities, protest the Democratic caucuses? Will the NAACP petition the United Nations as it did in December for a human-rights ruling on what its President Benjamin Jealous called a “tidal wave of assaults on the right to vote”? Will the American Civil Liberties Union sue the Democratic Party as it has Wisconsin to protests its voter ID law?”


 


More at The Detroit News.

Krauthammer: Obama is “Divider in Chief” on Photo ID

The entire Obama campaign is a slice-and-dice operation, pandering to
one group after another, particularly those that elected Obama in 2008 —
blacks, Hispanics, women, young people — and for whom the thrill is now
gone.

What to do? Try fear. Create division, stir resentment, by
whatever means necessary — bogus court challenges, dead-end Senate bills
and a forest of straw men.

Why else would the Justice Department challenge
the photo ID law in Texas? To charge Republicans with seeking to
disenfranchise Hispanics and blacks, of course. But in 2008 the Supreme
Court upheld a similar law from Indiana. And it wasn’t close: 6 to 3, the majority including the venerated liberal John Paul Stevens.

Moreover,
photo IDs were recommended by the 2005 Commission on Federal Election
Reform, co-chaired by Jimmy Carter. And you surely can’t get into the
attorney general’s building without one. Are Stevens, Carter and Eric
Holder anti-Hispanic and anti-black?

full column.

“Voter ID Matters”

The Missouri Show-Me Institute reports:  Voter fraud can swing elections, especially close ones. If voter
fraud constitutes 2 percent, or 1 percent, or even 1/2 percent of the
vote total, how many races does that affect? How many statewide and
local races have you seen decided by a point or less, and how likely is
it that none of those races turned on fraudulent votes?

Every vote should count, every vote should be protected, and every
attempt to distort the will of the electorate with the casting of
illegal ballots should be turned back. Preventing voter fraud through
reasonable identification measures that we already accept to drive cars,
board airplanes, and enter some government buildings is not an undue
burden on voters’ rights to vote. Rather, it is a burden on voters’
rights to allow the floodgates of voter fraud and abuse to remain open.

Former Project Vote Employee Confronts Eric Holder

More at PJ Rule of Law.  “I am so tired of race being a dividing factor in our communities.  I grew up poor in Birmingham, Alabama, and I will tell you, in the black community they don’t have a lot of opportunities, there’s not a lot of banks, so where are you going to get your check cashed at?  The liquor store, or you go to a check cashing place. 


You can’t do anything without an ID in the black community.  Sometimes they won’t even let you use your debit card unless they can verify you are who you are, because they lose money on fraudulent purchases every year.  These are the realities of being poor and being black in America.  Why is Sharpton ignoring this?  He knows exactly what I’m talking about, but he’s a professional race baiter.  He smells that 8mm camera film and he comes running out there and he pulls out that platinum race card.”