Thielen: “Why did Democrat politicians and minorities in Rhode Island want Voter ID? Simple: to stop vote fraud. Sponsor Senator Harold Metts stated: ‘I sponsored the Voter I.D. legislation in the Senate on behalf of Black and Latino constituents concerned about voter fraud. . . . For decades many of us have heard complaints about voter fraud. . . . I cannot accept the logic of those who dismiss this by saying that ‘there have been no formal complaints filed.’ The old system was not set up to readily weed out fraud; and it would be very hard to prove.”

Wait, it gets even better:

“That is why liberals like MSNBC’s Chris Matthews all but laughed in the face of the Advancement Project director on his show when she denied vote fraud existed in Philadelphia. But think of it this way. In Philadelphia, you don’t even get prosecuted for waiving a bully club and threatening people as the New Black Panthers did; do you really think anything is going to happen with the busses of people illegally voting for others multiple times as Matthews described?”