I'm sure this will be the lead story on the nightly news tonight. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/08/DC-Polling-Place-Holder-Ballot
That's sad to read about. I hope that upstanding citizen was promptly arrested for impersonating an attorney general. ;]
the harder it is to vote, the easier it is for the majority opinion to remain under the rug aka republicans love to make it harder to vote, and pretty soon, democrats will too
wait, this guy (the same guy from NH?) committed voter fraud, right? so far it seems only conservatives are doing this, maybe you should be in favor of it
Hey now, PapaG is an independant, not a Republican. He's going to vote for someone other than Romney and Obama entirely. ;]
im going to go around the country robbing banks, just to prove they should hire more security, and then have a right wing blog about it
Well, since they didn't break any laws (unlike robbing a bank), I really don't get your point. The dude never claimed he was Holder; he never accepted the ballot; he never voted in Holder's place. It was recorded in a state where 1 party acceptance is legal. What law do you think was broken? They just did this to show how easy it is to game the voting process in many states. Holder was picked on because he is a rabid attacker of voter id laws. We have to produce valid goverment ID in order to just about anything in this country - and yet - we don't have to in order to vote. To travel by plane or train; buy alcohol; drive; enter many federal buildings; apply for school; appl for a job; cross a border; place a legal bet; by a lottery ticket; get medical care; cash a check; use a credit card in some areas; rent things, on and on and on. There really is something rotten about the thought process. Either guys like Holder take a stance against the government ID demand creep in our country, or they accept it as reasonable for voting. I happen to think it is reasonable for a state to require it, if they also offer to issue valid id's for free. What is the argument against it? The dead can no longer as easily cast ballots? Felons can't as easily cast ballots? Folks who like to cast two, three and four ballots will find it more difficult?
this is the crux of the matter. its obvious to anyone with a half a brain why conservatives are so up in arms about this issue. they want less poor people to vote. anyone that thinks there is anything more behind all this "omg voter fraud!" is just fooling themselves. if you want to learn about voter fraud, look at the electronic voting systems that are, not very coincidentally, supported by conservatives
I would disagree that he didn't misrepresent himself but he did shoot video in a polling place which is illegal in DC. Voter ID does little to stop voter fraud. If a person will go out of their way to vote twice what's stopping them from getting a fake ID?
I'll add that part of ObamaCare is that all citizens will need a federal photo ID to enter the system and get their benefits from it. But, asking somebody for a state ID to vote is racist according to the federal government.
That's your opinion. I, personally, think it just makes sense that someone should have to show ID. Even if it's free, people will argue that it's more of a strain on a poor person's resources to go to a location where ID is given. I'm not sure I buy it, but that argument will be made. Ed O.
Link? The inconvenience of making a fake ID and/or the complexity of making ones that register as "real" and/or the consequences for trying to use a fake one. That's like asking why we should lock our front doors, since if someone really wants to burgle our house they can bust in a window. Ed O.
You are misinformed. The largest electronic voting company in the world is controlled by a partisan Democrat. Look it up.
According to this website (which may or may not be correct), it's not expressly illegal to do so in DC. http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/documenting-your-vote#StateResources I'm interested to see what source you have that says it's illegal. Ed O.
