It’s interesting to me that Ms Carnahan’s falsified rantings are featured in such a extreme left leaning publication as the Huffington post. Equally as interesting is the NYT, another far left leaning publication. Never once, in either publication does the fact that more than 20 million illegal aliens who are in this country already jeopardize the fair voting process. It’s well known that Ms. Carnahan is a very left-leaning liberal Democrat.

The fact is, Democrats have long opposed Republican efforts to combat voter fraud by requiring a photo ID (among other proposals). Such efforts, they argue, could potentially suppress the vote of minorities, the old, and the infirm. As such, according to Democrats, these laws are constitutionally infirm. Obviously, the US Supreme Court disagrees.

By a 6-3 vote, the panel held that Indiana’s strict photo identification requirements meet constitutional muster in a precedent-setting ruling that could open the door for other states to adopt similar requirements.

After all, one has to produce photo ID to cash a check. Why is it any more burdensome in exercising a basic American right that, unfortunately, can be prone to abuse, if not fraud? The memories of widespread voting problems in Florida’s version of the 2000 presidential election and this state’s controversial 2004 gubernatorial stakes are too fresh.

Washington state requires voters to show proof of identification but not photo ID. Acceptable forms of ID include a driver’s license or state ID card — or a voter-registration card, a utility bill, student ID card, a bank statement or even a paycheck.

Such a requirement could be in helping curb illegal immigration, because a person must be a citizen of the United States and a legal resident of the state to register to vote. All are efforts to protect the integrity of the ballot in light of voter reforms launched at the state and federal levels in recent years.

Voting is a fundamental American right, but one that also has a few basic restrictions. It is no more unreasonable to ask people to prove who they are when they register or cast a ballot than it is when they cash a check for a few groceries.

Despite the overheated rhetoric from the left, there is strong evidence that it happens regularly. Few can forget evidence of the dead voting and electing Ophelia Ford to the Tennessee state senate. In Milwaukee, investigators are unable to explain how 4,500 more ballots were cast than voters showed up to the polls, and have established that 100 voters used fake names, voted twice, or used a dead person’s name.

The uber-right wing gibberish about dogs and the dead voting has about as much currency as their racist howls about immigration. Face it, wingnuts: you’ve managed to give this nation impeachment over oral sex, a war of choice that’s bankrupted this country both financially and morally, a national debt amounting to roughly $31,00 for every man, woman, and child in this country, and a war against science and reason carried on from the bowels of a “faith-based” administration. The extreme right can slobber all it wants about gay marriage, those evil Mexicans, or their best topic–racism (”Psst. Voters. Do you know Obama’s a -gasp- black guy?!?”) And for all of their trouble, they’re going to be mugged come November. We may even be looking at 60 Democratic seats in the Senate; for my math-impaired friends on the nutcase wing of the GOP, that means filibuster-proof. The right wing couldn;t have made a bigger mess of things if they were actually being paid off by Osama bin Ladin. Given the moral bankruptcy of conservatism these days, that’s unlikely, but not impossible.

Wardog (post #12)

GREAT QUOTE!