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The Vote Fraud Fraud

[ 10 ] January 25, 2011 | Scott Lemieux

Texas edition. It’s also worth noting that most “Voter ID” statutes still allow for (heavily Republican-leaning) absentee ballots to be cast without ID.

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  1. DrDick says:

    Come on now, Scott. You know as well as I do that it is only vote fraud when minorities actually vote.

  2. Holden Pattern says:

    What I don’t get is why people don’t seem to grasp that this and the attack on birthright citizenship is the conservative response to the demographic trap that they’re in. The demographics of the country might make it hard to continue pandering to fearful white suburbanites, but if they can keep enough of the wrong sort of people out of the electorate, it won’t matter.

  3. Brian says:

    Today’s G.O.P. = Hysterical reactions to non-existent problems. If I didn’t know better, I’d say they were crazy. But they’re crazy like foxes. Really greedy, ignorant, racist foxes.

  4. timb says:

    Afraid that your conservative majority will be gone when your state hits white people becoming a plurality, rather than an over-whelming majority? Keep those people from voting. That will show them!

    As a Hoosier, I can still remember the last time John Paul Stevens made me sad….I still remember Todd Rokita, then Secretary of State and now freshman douchebag in the federal House of Representatives, coming to our law school election class with the prior demand that no one ask him about the SCOTUS case and then lectured us on how he didn’t come to argue and wouldn’t answer any argumentative questions.

    In answer to a question of whether the electronic machines should also keep a paper record, he said no, because there had never been instance when it had been needed. Because the Universe is not a fair place, a giant ball of irony did not explode on him. I lost count about how many times the morons in this state said it didn’t matter whether there had been voter fraud; they just needed it in case.

    No word on whether literacy tests are making a come back?

    • DrDick says:

      No worry about the literacy test as half the teabaggers would flunk.

      • Hogan says:

        Joke my father told me back in the ’60s:

        A white priest, a white rabbi, and a black minister appear at the Pearly Gates. St Peter says to the priest, “Spell ‘God.’” The priest says, “G-O-D.” St. Peter says, “Welcome to heaven.”

        To the rabbi: “Spell ‘God.’” Rabbi: “G-O-D.” St. Peter: “Welcome to heaven.”

        To the minister: “Spell ‘chrysanthemum.’”

      • KadeKo says:

        I don’t dare put up the punchline about the literacy test conducted pollside, in the South, with waxed paper and a ballpoint pen. However, in savvy company such as this, it’s not needed, right?

  5. Tyto says:

    So, the exemption for people over 70: rational basis or heightened scrutiny?

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