Dems Last Chance to Make Sure Laws Still Broken
Apparently the Supreme Court is giving Democrats and activist quacks one last gasp for hope that the Indiana Voter I.D. law could be overturned. They contend that Indiana’s law disenfranchises voters who would vote Democrat. What? That’s not the reason? Actually according to the Indianapolis Star they claim “…that the law unfairly targets poor and minority voters, without any evidence that in-person voter fraud exists in Indiana.”
Is that a valid claim? I guess it could be if they had any proof. That fact is, that in the highly charged 2006 mid-term election, which ultimately saw the control of congress as well as the Indiana house change hands from Republican to Democrat with the I.D. law in full effect saw no complaints of supposed “voter suppression” based on a lack of I.D. Let me also remind you that Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita ran commercials for months prior to the November mid-terms reminding voters to get their proper I.D. He even told people how they could do it.
Now fast forward to the uninspiring 2007 municipal primary election in Marion County. The same law is in effect. But that spring time day in May had different results. Thousands of voters were denied their constitutional right to vote. People were turned away and told they couldn’t vote at all!
“Hold on! People were turned away and told they couldn’t vote?! Surely, a vast right wing conspiracy of Republicans working to suppress minorities and poor people must have been at play. That’s the only way voters would ever be kept from voting. The ONLY way! Right?” Wrong.
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Newly elected Democrat Marion County Clerk Beth White, shirking any help or advice being offered by the former clerk (who was a Republican) thought that an election is an easy thing to run. If Doris Anne Sadler can do it, (remember that former Marion County Dem Chair Ed Treacy wanted her jailed for her handling of elections), surely she can handle something so trivial as a municipal primary. Apparently not. Beth White so bungled the primary that polling places didn’t even open. People were turned away, not because they didn’t have proper I.D., but because their particular precinct didn’t even bother to open so people could vote.
That, my friend, is real voter suppression.
So let’s recap here real quick. In 2006, with a new, stiffer, voter I.D. law in place, mid-term elections go off without a hitch. In 2007 in Marion County, voters are kept from voting because precincts never open.
Tell me who deserves to be taken to court now.
Sure Democrats will hew and cry over Republicans having no evidence of voter fraud in Indiana. Well, I’m sure Wall Street Journal reporter, and author the book Stealing Elections (read the intro here) John Fund has a few things to say about that. You may also want to check out the report below produced by the Andrew Horning for Congress Campaign in 2004. It was turned into the Secretary of State a couple of weeks prior to election day.
I think a case could easily be made that voter fraud does exist. As for voter suppression? Well, you may want to ask Beth White about that one.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Ironically, Beth White’s campaign slogan? “Make every vote count”. First election - she bungles it. Bigtime. Asking around nobody EVER remembers a precinct NOT opening at all for an election. Some opened maybe an hour late, but never “not at all”. Doris Ann Sadler had some precincts down south run out of ballots, and the Dems were calling for her impeachment.
Tom John may not call for Mrs. whatever her name is now’s impeachment now, but if she bungles the fall election there must be hell to pay!!!