GOP To Push Stronger Voter I.D. Laws, Says ‘Voter Fraud Is Real’!

[Jake Martinez]

Posted on CNSNews.com-By Matt Cover-On July 15, 2011:

“(CNSNews.com) – Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus repeated his party’s commitment to stronger voter identification laws, saying that the GOP would not give up the fight against voter fraud.

“I think that we need to make it easy to vote, hard to cheat, and I think that that’s a mantra that we ought to shout from the rooftops all over the country as a Party,” Priebus told conservative bloggers on a conference call on Thursday.

Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) Chairman David Norcross said that voter fraud issues were very real, despite complaints from liberals that it is largely a phantom problem. Cross cited several cases where states had found thousands of ineligible votes after elections were already over.

“Voter fraud is real, this is not anybody’s imagination,” Norcross said.

“The Milwaukee police department reported some detailed fraud in the 2004 presidential election in Wisconsin. The Colorado Secretary of State found last year that 5,000 non-citizens voted in their Senate race, which was decided by a close margin. And probably all will remember Minnesota in 2008 when more ineligible voters were identified than the margin between the winning and losing Senate candidates.”

Norcross also pushed back against the argument that strict voter I.D. laws depress poor and minority turnout, a claim made famous by Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.), who said such laws would “literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws,”a reference to the racist segregation-era laws that prevented southern blacks form voting.

“And as for people who don’t have photo I.D., American University Center for Democracy in Election Management found recently that 99 percent of eligible voters posses the proper I.D.,” said Cross. “Really, the purpose for this call is to make sure that we preserve this initiative, keep it going, and that we protect voter I.D. and the rights of legitimate voters,” Cross said.

Representative Todd Rokita (R-Ind.), formerly Indiana Secretary of State, said that after Indiana issued a voter I.D. law, it saw turnout go up, not down, charging that attacks against voter I.D. laws were “the sky is falling” arguments.

“All the ‘sky is falling’ arguments that were made in accusation of what was billed as some kind of draconian, or tyrannical law never came to pass,” said Rokita. “In fact, our voting went up 2 percent as we introduced the photo I.D. law. We attribute that to the confidence that the law inspired in the voting public.”

Democrats are also making more of an issue out of voter I.D. laws, holding a Capitol Hill press conference on Friday to criticize Republican-led states that have strengthened I.D. laws as trying to suppress the minority vote.

“I guess they don’t think that we understand that they’re trying to keep poor people from voting, minorities from voting, the elderly from voting, students from voting, we are not stupid,” Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) told CNSNews.com’s Nicholas Ballasy after the conference.

“We understand that this is by design,” said Fudge, adding that “when you go to every state that a Republican governor, where there’s a Republican governor, they are doing this across this country and we’re just not going to take it.”

Such charges, Norcross said, were nothing but “cynical” attacks against a proven policy – one that has the support of most Americans. .

“But we have seen recently what I suspect many of you have, a cynical and calculated and coordinated effort by the Democrats to spread lies about the reasons for and effect of voter I.D.,” said Norcross.  

“In fact, most Americans support voter I.D. A June 2011 Rasmussen Poll had 75 percent of Americans believing voters should be required to show photo ID. This breaks down into 85 percent of Republicans , 77 percent of Independents, and 63 percent of Democrats.”

Source:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/gop-push-voter-id-laws-through-...

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

I. Democrats Claim GOP Conspiracy: Showing Photo ID at Polls Keeps Poor, Minorities From Voting!

What’s wrong with this picture?

Posted on The Blaze-By Tiffany Gabbay-On July 15, 2011:

“Would being required to show a photo ID at the voting booth prior to casting your ballot deter you from voting? According to some Democrats, yes, it can, and will.  Especially if you are a minority, a senior, a student, or are poor.

But who are the ones Democrats claim are seeking to discourage minorities from voting? Republicans, of course.

Rev. Jessie Jackson and Congresswoman Marcia Fudge along with their supporters claim a “Rovian”conspiracy is underway by the GOP to bar minorities, students, the elderly, and the poor from accessing the ballot box.

During a press conference attended by House Democrats including Sheila Jackson Lee, Fudge said of Republicans:

“I guess they don’t think that we understand that they’re trying to keep poor people from voting, minorities from voting, the elderly from voting, students from voting, we are not stupid,” she told reporters at a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday alongside liberal activist Rev. Jesse Jackson.

“We understand that this is by design — when you go to every state that a Republican governor, where there’s a Republican governor, they are doing this across this country and we’re just not going to take it,”said Fudge.

Currently, there are 16 states that now have laws “requiring” or “requesting” voters to present photo ID prior to casting a ballot, but even that is apparently too many for Democrats, who seem to think no real identification should be required at all.

Jackson went on to explain to CNSNews what types of identifying documents he deems appropriate to show at the polls:

“You can use a utilities ID in some instances, a driver’s license or a Social Security number, a whole range of personal identifications – a phone bill,” Jackson told CNSNews.com.

Isn‘t a driver’s license a photo ID? And, what, exactly is a “utilities ID?” Did Jackson trip himself up a bit, perhaps?

Jackson also believes moving Election Day from Sunday to Tuesday is another “scheme” to quash minorities’ votes.

“Even, for example, moving voting from Tuesday – Sunday back to Tuesday – well, Tuesday’s a day when most people work. That’s always a scheme to suppress the vote and you have higher turnout on the weekends,” he said.

One of Jackson’s supporters even went so far as to suggest showing your photo ID to election judges could invite“ stalkers” into your life, when he told CNSNews that his daughter is “terrified” of showing her ID as it contains her school dorm’s address.

“Terrified?“ Of showing an ID at a voting booth because of the ”stalking-risks?” Surely, he jests. Does his daughter mind presenting her ID before purchasing alcohol at the supermarket, or upon entering a nightclub, or bar? What about when she goes to the movies and tries to get the student-rate ticket? Surely she must show her student ID then…

Watch Democrats try to rationalize their position to CNSNews on photo ID’s below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGX1dH-T5WY&feature=player_embe...

Source:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/democrats-claim-gop-conspiracy-show...

II. GOP Push to Tighten State Voting Laws Prompts Dem Backlash!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Judson Berger-On July 7, 2011:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/07/gop-push-to-tighten-stat...

III. Black Activists “Deeply Disappointed” in President Clinton’s “Disingenuous” Racial Attack on Ballot Security Measures!-Posted on The National Center for Public Policy Research-On July 7, 2011:

http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-VoterID_070711.html

IV. Senators Seek to Stymie Polling Place Protections!-Posted on The National Center For Public Policy Research-On July 1, 2011:

http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-VoterID_070111.html

V. Black Activists Criticize Jesse Jackson on Voting Rights!-Posted on The Center For Public Policy Research-On June 22, 2011:

http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Jackson_062211.html

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

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

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http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/court-overturns-arizona’s-...

Active complaint to the FEC over President Obama’s campaign finances!

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

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Jake