The Cincinnati Enquirer fails entirely to mention the election official who proudly said on camera she voted multiple times for multiple people for President Obama. Of course the Inquirer is not alone. Some have used the incident merely to highlight that voter ID isn’t a solution, as if that is the alpha and omega of election integrity efforts. How about the people in Ohio who falsely claimed poll watchers were part of a voter suppression effort? Are we to take them seriously next time now that we know the craftwork of Meloweese Richardson? Part of Richardson’s method was to not use the absentee ballot list in the precinct she managed – something True the Vote poll watchers are trained to pick up on. Now we know why so many people have wanted True the Vote’s silent quiet poll observers far away from the polls in Ohio. They would have noticed that Richardson dispensed with the absentee ballot list.
It’s so bad and people are SO uninformed and stupid I believe there should be some minimal competency test one must pass before being allowed to vote. If a person has to take a test to get a driver’s license, shouldn’t they at least exhibit a minimal amount of literacy about their government if they are going to vote?
More basic than that… Should one not have to pass the test required to purchase a case of beer or a pack of cigarettes in order to exercise the right to vote?