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Voter Fraud, Motor Voter, Spitzer, And the Democrats

An interesting, but alas, not particularly shocking article appeared over at Q&O yesterday [1] under the headline 8 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were registered to vote.

A voting booth [2]We all saw or are now familiar with the recent dust-up in the latest Democratic debate concerning Hillary Clinton and her support/non-support of NY Governor Eliot Spitzer’s desire to allow illegal immigrants to get a driver’s licence.

The party line for such a move is it enhances security by bringing illegals out of the shadows and making it easier to track them. Frankly, that’s a pile of cow cookies.

Using info from a John Fund article [3] in the Wall Street Journal, let me show you why:

The background here is the National Voter Registration Act, commonly known as “Motor Voter,” that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1993. It required all states to offer voter registration to anyone getting a driver’s license. One simply fills out a form and checks a box stating he is a citizen; he is then registered and in most states does not have to show any ID to vote.

The key to the rest of this is found in the emboldened line. From there, this:

But no one checks if the person registering to vote is indeed a citizen. That greatly concerns New York election officials, who processed 245,000 voter registrations at DMV offices last year. “It would be [tough to catch] if someone wanted to . . . get a number of people registered who aren’t citizens and went ahead and got them drivers’ licenses,” says Lee Daghlian, spokesman for New York’s Board of Elections. Assemblywoman Ginny Fields, a Long Island Democrat, warns that the state’s “Board of Elections has no voter police” and that the state probably has upwards of 500,000 illegal immigrants old enough to drive.

So? So show up with a social security number (something else they don’t check to see if it is valid), lie about being a citizen, and you can both drive and vote. Simple as that. No one is going to check. In fact, they’re not staffed to check, nor is there any procedure in place to do so even if bureaucrats wanted to0. (sic)

McQ points out that the system upon which Mr. Spitzer claims to be depending for it’s integrity as regards prevention of abuse of his proposed illegal alien drivers licenses, is with those 8 hikackers, fully exposed as not HAVING any integrity.  This begs question of why he feels the need to march off into the sunset waving the flag of illegals and their “rights”… ad by extension, why, as Bruce points out, 6 out of the 7 Democrat candidates for Preident at lest tacitly if not openly support Spitzer in this. Clearly, not a one of them are concerned a whit about the integrity of the system. They’re not worried about illegals voting…. indeed they’re DEPENDING on illegals voting… for Democrats.

I call that corruption.

So does John Fund:

Despite her muddled comments this week, there’s no doubt where Mrs. Clinton stands on ballot integrity. She opposes photo ID laws, even though they enjoy over 80% support in the polls. She has also introduced a bill to force every state to offer no-excuse absentee voting as well as Election Day registration–easy avenues for election chicanery. The bill requires that every state restore voting rights to all criminals who have completed their prison terms, parole or probation.

Pollster Scott Rasmussen notes that Mrs. Clinton is such a polarizing figure that she attracts between 46% and 49% support no matter which Republican candidate she’s pitted against–even libertarian Ron Paul. She knows she may have trouble winning next year. Maybe that’s why she’s thrown herself in with those who will look the other way as a new electoral majority is formed–even if that includes non-citizens, felons and those who suddenly cross a state line on Election Day and decide they want to vote someplace new.

And you know what? All of this puts into a slightly new perspective all the loud and long complaints for the last eight years from the Democrats about electronic voting, and makes clear that their concern wasn’t that it opened up new chances for fraud, but that it eliminated Democrat chances to create fraud.