Author Archives: J Christian Adams

Artur Davis on the Administration’s Exploitation of Race

A blistering piece by Artur Davis at National Review, including Obama’s use of race in the attack on voter ID:, all from a former Obama supporter:


“Enter Joe Biden in Danville, Va., on Tuesday, before a crowd with a large African-American presence. In forced colloquialisms, the vice president warned the audience that Republicans would “put y’all back in chains.” In the hours since, Team Obama has scratched hard to find a different subtext to his statement, but their mincing of words has only added insult to injury: Every African American in the room knew full well whom “y’all” referred to, and what chains meant — it’s one of the clearest codes in racial politics in the black community and has been for a while. At worst, the word “chains” signifies a retreat to a society where a person’s skin color amounted to a prison. At the least, the word bluntly and outrageously equates ordinary conservatism with racial viciousness.”

Majority of Every Demographic Supports Voter ID – Except Ideological Liberals

An amazing poll by the Washington Post.  A majority of every demographic supports voter ID -except those self-identifying their ideology as liberal. (Which of course explains why the Justice Department is trying to stop Voter ID.)    And even 48 percent of liberals say they support Voter ID!

This demonstrates why it is dangerous for Voter ID opponents to push this issue – there will be political ramifications in November.  Voter ID has broken containment.  The more we hear about Voter ID, the more damage it does to Democratic Party interests.  And like we saw yesterday in Pennsylvania, its a high risk to take when you can’t prove anyone was disenfranchised.  Civil rights groups should move along to an issue that really matters instead of spending donor dollars on something that doesn’t disenfranchise and is supported by the vast majority of Americans.

h/t to John Fund.

“Why Do Voters Back ID? Common Sense”


Commentary Magazine comments:


 


These numbers have to concern Democrats who are hoping to whip up a backlash against voter ID legislation by falsely claiming they are a new form of “Jim Crow” laws intended to foster discrimination. Indeed, given the drumbeat of incitement against voter ID laws in the mainstream media, you have to wonder why there is so much resistance to the liberal line on this topic. The answer, however, is quite simple. The public knows that claims that voter fraud is nonexistent run counter to everything they know about politicians, elections and human nature…


 


Interestingly enough, as the Post notes in their own analysis of the poll, a solid majority of both the elderly and the poor — groups it is believed will be impacted by such laws — also support voter ID.

Iowa Dem leader criticizes Secretary of State for checking Iowa voter rolls for non-citizens

A top Senate Democrat on Tuesday criticized Iowa’s Republican secretary of state for “undermining” the voting rights of Iowans by enacting emergency rules to purge foreign nationals from the state’s voter registration list and make it easier to file allegations of voter fraud.   

Removing non-eligible voters is actually the law.  I guess if you don’t look for ineligible voters, you can never be accused of intentionally leaving them on the rolls.  And if you never investigate voter fraud, you can always safely say…. “it doesn’t exist” – at least in Iowa.

Link to full story

More on PA Voter ID at the Blaze

 Link.

Lawyers for the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office, which argued in defense of the law, said the state will issue special photo ID cards to registered voters who are unable to get Pennsylvania Department of Transportation-issued IDs, and are also rolling out a public campaign to make sure voters are aware of the change.


Logan Churchwell, a spokesman for the Houston-based election integrity group True the Vote, told TheBlaze they were celebrating the judge’s ruling but not necessarily surprised by it.


“It‘s obviously good news but True the Vote wasn’t really surprised by the ruling, given that Indiana’s voter ID law was upheld by the Supreme Court a few years back,” Churchwell said.


Simpson cited the 2008 Supreme Court decision that upheld the Indiana law, where the justices said the state had a “valid interest” in protecting elections and improving procedures.