Behind Holder’s war on voter-ID laws!

[Jake Martinez]

What’s wrong with this picture?

Posted on The New York Post-By Michael A. Walsh-Updated on December 15, 2011:

“If you want to buy over-the-counter cold medicine at your local drugstore, chances are you have to show a photo ID to do it. Same if you want to get on a plane, rent a car or open a bank account. So why not to vote?

But to Attorney General Eric Holder, the idea is an outrage. In the name of “civil rights,” he’s declared war on a nationwide movement to ensure the integrity of the electoral process.

Just this year, eight states have passed new photo-ID laws; more than half now have some form of ID requirement for voting. But Holder has already sicced Justice’s Civil Rights Division on new voter-ID laws in South Carolina and Texas to see if there’s any “disproportionate impact” on minorities. He’s also objecting to reforms in “early voting” in places like Florida, which recently tightened its electoral window.

And he went to Austin, Texas, on Tuesday to give a speech denouncing what his ally Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) calls “a deliberate and systematic attempt to prevent millions of elderly voters, young voters, students, minority and low-income voters from exercising their constitutional right to engage in the democratic process.”

Hogwash. Yes, using neutral-seeming barriers to deny blacks a real chance to vote was central to Jim Crow — but for a generation now, the nation’s assigned an entire division of the Justice Department precisely to jumping on top of any such chicanery.

This is not a civil-rights issue, it’s ensuring that everyone’s vote counts.

Liberals have long insisted that voter fraud is a “myth,” and voter-ID laws a plot to suppress turnout among “people who are more likely to vote Democratic, particularly the young, the poor, the elderly and minorities,” in the words of The New York Times.

Now that’s chutzpah coming from New York City, where the organized-crime ring known as Tammany Hall regularly and proudly stole municipal and statewide elections well into the 20^th century with its army of “repeaters” — men who altered their appearances by shaving or changing their clothes so they could “vote early and often” — and other tactics.

Nor is it history. Just this week, the chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party resigned in the wake of election-fraud allegations involving forged ballot-petition signatures that are now under investigation.

Nor is it “merely” registration fraud. The Commission on Federal Election Reform, created after the 2004 election and co-chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker, uncovered examples of vote-buying, repeat voting and absentee-ballot fraud. As Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in upholding Indiana’s voter-ID law in 2008, “flagrant examples of such fraud have been documented throughout this nation’s history by respected historians and journalists.”

So, while Holder intones that unfettered access to the ballot box “must be viewed not only as a legal issue but a moral imperative,” his real agenda is surely politics: Fraud generally benefits Democratic candidates.

Even posturing about the issue might sway a few souls. Hence the new Senate bill, introduced yesterday by New York’s own Chuck Schumer and Ben Cardin of Maryland, to criminalize “deceptive” campaign literature, such as giving the wrong date for elections. A similar bill went nowhere four years ago, and this one’s likely just as doomed — but it’s a fine pretext for muddying the debate over voter-ID.

In fact, Holder is right on one count: This is a moral issue, if not in the way he claims.

The history of voting in America has been one of expanding the franchise to include (by constitutional amendment) blacks, women and young adults. But it’s not infinitely expandable to felons, foreigners and fraudsters — no matter how much use the Dems might see in those constituencies.

Were photo-ID regulations as onerous as liberals claim, “the young, the poor, the elderly and minorities” would barely be able to function. Further, it is an insult to millions of Americans to assume that they are too ignorant to know when elections are (hint: they’re generally on Tuesdays).

The Supreme Court, in its 6-3 Indiana decision, called voter-ID laws “eminently reasonable.” That’s the true “moral” position. But with a crucial election coming up next year, expect the Obama administration to go all in to try and stop them.”

Source:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/behind_holder_w...

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and video relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. Eric Holder Announces Opposition to Election Integrity Laws!

Posted on PJ Media-By J. Christian Adams-On December 13, 2011:

“On Tuesday night, I spoke in Austin, Texas, at a rally organized by True the Vote.  It took place on the grounds of the LBJ Library on the campus of the University of Texas.  The rally was in response to Eric Holder’s announcement at the same place two hours later of a concerted Justice Department effort to oppose virtually every electoral integrity measure promoted by Constitutional conservatives and Republicans.

Holder’s announcement will have profound partisan results in the 2012 election because of his professed unwillingness to enforce laws to prevent voter fraud.  Indeed, tonight he made clear his opposition to these laws, such as voter ID and even the requirement to register to vote in advance of an election.

Holder announced broad opposition to voter identification requirements and a ramped up effort to enforce voting registration laws in welfare agencies.  He didn’t make any announcements about enforcing Section 8 of Motor Voter to ensure dead people don’t populate the roles.  He also said that voter fraud “isn’t a huge problem,” perhaps marking the first time the nation’s chief law enforcement downplayed criminal behavior.  Of course that is in vogue in this administration, starting with the New Black Panther dismissal and now with Fast and Furious.

In opposition to Holder, I spoke, as did a group of inspiring patriots starting with Catherine Englebrecht of True the Vote.  Anita Moncrief, Reverend C. L. Bryan, George Rodriguez (head of the San Antonio Tea Party) and Adryana Boyne, national director of VOCES Action followed.  Boyne’s speech defending Texas voter ID may be the first time I heard the policy defended in Spanish.  Moncrief, though, had the line of the night — that “Al Sharpton has a platinum race card.”

Holder laid down markers, which will excite his base and disturb law abiding citizens.  He supported restrictions on political speech which will criminalize campaign falsehoods.  He vowed hyper-scrutiny of voter integrity laws such as voter ID and vowed to run states like Texas through a nasty gauntlet on redistricting.  If this doesn’t send a signal to Texas and South Carolina to pull their voter ID laws out of Justice and go to court, nothing else will.  Also in attendance was Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez, a starring character in my book Injustice.

Holder brought along his puppy, Charlie Savage of the New York Times, from whom we can expect glowing sycophantic coverage of Holder’s announcement at any minute at the New York Times website.  Savage is the same reporter who covered purported politicization at the Bush Justice Department.  For this he won a Pulitzer Prize.

PJ Media’s Every Single One series reported on the same story Savage did, except this time on the 113 attorney hires by the Obama Civil Rights Division.  Savage only covered a handful of Bush hires — he had to, otherwise his story wouldn’t work because the Bush DOJ hired scores of liberal activist lawyers.  But the Obama Justice Department gives no quarter to the enemy in hiring, and hired 113 leftists out of 113 openings.  I described in my book Injustice how PJ Media had to sue Eric Holder to extract this information:

• During the Bush era, DOJ leaders quickly fulfilled FOIA requests. For instance, in 2006 Charlie Savage, then at the Boston Globe, requested all the resumes of the recently hired attorneys in the Bush Civil Rights Division. The DOJ leadership produced the materials within days, well ahead of the legal deadline—they acted so fast, in fact, that some colleagues and I complained they were rushing. Suspecting we were being set up for a leftwing smear campaign, we urged DOJ officials to protect our privacy while fully complying with the requests. But our concerns were ignored and the information was rushed out anyway, resulting in a slew of slanderous media stories, some attacking us in extremely personal ways, followed by curious questions from our family members about why we were in the news. There was a particularly merciless leftist blogosphere attack on a pair of attorneys who happened to be two of the hardest working and most dedicated lawyers in the entire Voting Section.

After PJ Media obtained the Obama hiring information, Savage, ever the cuddly puppy, wrote a puff piece about the Obama hiring practices.  Gone was his outrage over politicized hiring that he exhibited at the Boston Globe for the Bush DOJ.  That’s what PJ Media is for – reporting on stories the dying dead trees media won’t. Given the scope of the Every Single One series, perhaps PJ Media deserves a Pulitzer too.  If Charlie got one, PJ Media certainly should.  Stay tuned.

Source:

http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2011/12/13/eric-holder-announces...

II. Black Conservatives Say Attorney General Holder's Tuesday Night Speech at LBJ Library Was Partisan and Racialist!-Posted on The National Center for Public Policy Research-On December 14, 2011:

http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Holder_121411.html

III. In Wake of Indiana Petition Forgery Probe, New Rules Offered to Prevent Fraud!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Eric Shawn-On December 14, 2011:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/14/in-wake-obama-petition-s...

IV. Documents Reveal Coordination Between ACORN Affiliate and Justice Department Voting Section!-Posted on Big Government-By J. Christian Adams-On December 14, 2011:

http://biggovernment.com/jcadams/2011/12/14/documents-reveal-coordi...

V. Obama’s Creepy New Plot to Get Republican E-mail Addresses!-Posted on ExposeObama.com-Ben Johnson, The White House Watch-On December 14, 2011:

http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/12/14/obamas-creepy-new-plot-to-get...

VI. Video: Rush, Democrats “Can’t Win Unless There is Vote Fraud!”-Posted on ExposeObama.com-On December 14, 2011:

http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/12/14/video-rush-democrats-cant-win...

VII. Indiana Democratic Party Head Resigns as Fraud Probe Heats Up!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Eric Shawn-On December 12, 2011:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/12/indiana-democratic-party...

Personal Note From Me: I know that most of you have already seen the following information before, but bare with me for taking the liberty of sharing it with you again to make sure that we are all on the same page when it comes to knowing what we face in our next Presidential election:

Note:  The following websites reveal that George Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI) — has dispensed more than $5 billion to a multitude of organizations whose objectives are consistent with those of Soros and one of those organizations is Project Vote, which is the voter-mobilization arm of the notoriously corrupt ACORN, whose voter-registration drives and get-out-the-vote initiatives have been marred by massive levels of fraud and corruption, along President Obama’s ties to this voter fraud machine-You Decide:

Guide to the George Soros Network:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=589

Project Vote:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6966

Obama’s ties with voter fraud!-Posted on OneNewsNow.com-By Russ Jones, OneNewsNow-On December 1, 2011:

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1487470

Note:  The following websites and article and/or blog post reveal George Soros’s Secretary State Project (SOSP) and an education fund run by progressive labor leaders tasked with naturalizing new citizens and register new voters by using the 2010 Census as a redistributive mechanism, along with how he is using his money to help tip the elections to Democrats (Progressives) in all 50 states-You Decide:

George Soros’s Secretary Of State Project (SOSP)!-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7487

Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (MFVEF)!-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7538

George Soros’ Money Could Tip Elections in All 50 States!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Michael Oberndorf-On July 1, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/george-soros-money-could-tip-elections-in-a...

Note:  The following website and article and/or blog post reveal that George Soros funds Leftist foundations, litigators and organizations that dominate Election Laws and crusaders that enable massive voter fraud while the DOJ turns a blind eye-You Decide:

George Soros Funds Leftist Foundations, Litigators and OrganizationsThatDominate Field of Election Laws!-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1431

The Left Owns the Election Law Industry!-Posted on FrontPage Magazine-By J. Christian Adams-On August 12, 2011:

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/12/the-left-owns-the-election-law-i...

I, like many of you, have little or no faith in polls due to our bad experiences during the final days of the 2008 Presidential Election, as substantiated by this NewsMax article that revealed that almost every major pollster, to include the main stream media, had egg on their faces after the election because most of them predicted a double-digit win for then Senator Obama, but only two pollsters were accurate and critics say that the inflated numbers helped Senator Obama by reducing enthusiasm and support for Senator McCain.  Also included are other articles and/or blog posts that revealed that the same thing occurred during the 2010 mid-term elections-You Decide:

2008 Presidential Election Polls:

Pollsters Inflated Senator Obama’s Lead?

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/polls_inflated_obama_lead/2008/11/...

2010 Mid-Term Election Polls:

Don’t Believe the State-Run Polls!-Posted by Rush Limbaugh-On October 22, 2010:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102210/content/01125108...

About That New Poll in Alaska . . .-Posted on National Review-By Jim Geraghty-On October 28, 2010:

http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/251296/about-new-poll-a...

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Massive Voter Fraud-Again!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/massive-voter-fraud-again/

Is ACORN Really Disbanding or Is It Just Changing Its Name Because of Scandals?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/is-acorn-really-disbanding...

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-underst...

President and DOJ have contributed to the racial mess in our country!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/president-and-doj-have-con...

Note:  If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts please copy web site and paste it on your browser. Be aware that some of the articles and/or blog posts or videos listed within the contents of the above blog post(s) may have been removed by this administration because they may have considered them to be too controversial.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may shed some negative light on this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

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Semper Fi!

Jake