Recently the Indiana Supreme Court upheld Indiana's Photo ID Law. Despite the lack of actual convictions or prosecutors bringing charges against people that commit the crime of voter fraud, it does happen as is the case with 300 dead people voting.
Indiana has such a provision and opponents claim that people that push for voter ID laws are trying to suppress votes.
This is correct in many cases, but not for the reasoning the opponents of the voter ID laws assert.
The votes that proponents of the law wish to "suppress" are the voters that have no actual right to vote. Voting fraud should be suppressed.
Illegal aliens have no right to vote and neither do dead people.
Every legal vote should count. Every person that has the legal right to vote, should have the ability to vote. That basic premise has never been the issue, but a report today makes it clear why the proponents of the Voter ID laws are so convinced that having identification to vote is crucial for fair elections.
The example is Connecticut, where Marcel Dufresne who is a journalism professor at the University of Connecticut, had 11 students in his class investigate "dead voters".
The results are astounding, but even worse is the reaction of Connecticut Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz.
The result of the investigation showed that 8,558 deceased people were still registered on Connecticut's voter rolls, yet that doesn't mean they voted right?
300 of them did.
Journalism professor Marcel Dufresne, at the University of Connecticut, led a class investigation into dead voters and said his group of 11 students discovered 8,558 deceased people who were still registered on Connecticut’s voter rolls. They discovered more than 300 of them appeared somehow to have cast ballots after they died.
“We have one person who appeared to have voted 17 times since he died,” Dufresne said.
Even Dufresne's conclusion when he says that "there is no evidence of any election fraud", is at issue as well as Bysiewicz's assertion that "actually no dead people voted".
Her next reported remark is the astounding one though.
“I want to be very clear about that,” she said, explaining that while votes were cast and counted in the names of the dead, “there was no voter fraud at all in the state of Connecticut.”
“Did we have clerical errors where the wrong voter was crossed off? Yes,” she said.
Votes were casted and counted in the names of the dead but that did not constitute voter fraud?
In what alternate reality does she live in where dead people can cast a vote and have it counted but it isn't considered fraud?
Are they climbing out of their graves and voting?
Who cast the vote? Who walked into the booth and filled out the appropriate forms and pushed the appropriate buttons?
They even spoke to the daughter of one of those dead voters. The voter's name was Jane Drury and she voted in last year's election in Stonington, Connecticut..... the only problem with her voting last year is that she died eight years ago.
Her daughter, Jane Gumpel, said, "I was surprised because this is not possible."
Connecticut is not the only problem though, it was simply an example.
In Washington State, Republican Dino Rossi ran for governor in 2004, and lost by only 133 votes. Officials confirmed that the names of 19 dead people somehow cast ballots. Rossi is running this year for governor and reflected on his experience in 2004.
“It was the closest governor’s race in U.S. history. After the fact we found a number of dead people voted. I don’t know how they voted — you have to talk to Shirley MacLaine about that,” Rossi said.
Dead people going to the voting booths and casting votes is a problem. One which enacting strict Voter ID laws could limit the damage done from it.
As of now, more than 20 states have passed some sort of law requiring a form of identification at the polls, but very few with Indiana's strict guidelines which require a photo ID, instead of forms of identification that do not have a photo.
The states that require a photo ID are, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, and South Dakota.
The Supreme Court's decision to uphold Indiana's voter ID law has spurred other states to propose stricter laws themselves.
We need photo identification to buy alcohol and cigarettes and yet people argue that needing an ID to be able to vote is unfair?
What alternate universe do they live in where they would argue that a system that would stop dead people from voting is bad?
Do they want dead people to vote for some reason?
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