John Fund brings up Voter Fraud and the current Supreme Court Case on photo-IDs, always a consideration for the general election (most notably in Dem districts.):
But Indiana officials make the obvious point that, without a photo ID requirement, in-person fraud is "nearly impossible to detect or investigate." A grand jury report prepared by then-Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman in the 1980s revealed how difficult it is to catch perpetrators. It detailed a massive, 14-year conspiracy in which crews of individuals were recruited to go to polling places and vote in the names of fraudulently registered voters, dead voters, and voters who had moved. "The ease and boldness with which these fraudulent schemes were carried out shows the vulnerability of our entire electoral process to unscrupulous and fraudulent misrepresentation," the report concluded. No indictments were issued thanks to the statute of limitations, and because of grants of immunity in return for testimony.Fund also cites in-person fraud--people voting illegally, voting twice, and dead people voting-- in Seattle, Milwaukee, and Florida. Then there is absentee ballot fraud. Democrats don't care about photo IDs or about that either, for obvious reasons. (Nor at airports.)
But voters overwhelmingly support photo-IDs. They want their legitimate vote to count.
UPDATE: Presidential candidate Barack Obama, community organizer and lawyer, has a track record with ACORN, (which is being investigated for vote fraud. More here, scroll down for link to report). Sun Times:
In 1995, former Republican Gov. Jim Edgar refused to implement the federal "Motor Voter" law, which Republicans argued could invite fraud and which some Republicans feared could swell the ranks of Democratic voters.
The law mandated people be allowed to register to vote in government offices such as driver's license renewal centers.
Obama sued on behalf of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The League of Women Voters and other public-interest groups joined in.
"He and his client were the ones who filed the original case -- they blazed the trail," said Paul Mollica, who represented the League.
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