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The Democrats’ Three-Decade War on Honest Voting
by Jim on October 20, 2024 15
American Conservative, October 20, 2024
The Democrats’ Three-Decade War on Honest Voting
When did preventing election fraud become a violation of the Voting Rights Act?

by James Bovard

According to President Joe Biden’s Justice Department, it is now a federal crime to prevent illegal ballots in presidential elections.

Barely 30 days before the 2024 election, the Justice Department sued the state of Virginia to prohibit its removal of the names of noncitizens from voting rolls. Gov. Glenn Youngkin was enforcing a 2006 Virginia law, but the Biden administration portrayed that action as an attack on “the cornerstone of our democracy.” Youngkin denounced the federal lawsuit as “a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections” in Virginia.

The Virginia lawsuit is simply the latest in Democrats’ long war against honest voting, which began with the Clinton administration’s Motor Voter Act. That 1993 law mandated voter registration in every welfare and food-stamp office in the nation. Brent Thompson, executive director of the Fair Government Foundation, observed in 1996, “The Motor Voter law did away with a panoply of anti-fraud mechanisms long relied on by the states to police and deter fraudulent voting.”

In 2015, the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton condemned voter identification requirements as part of a “sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people and young people.” A Washington Post headline aptly summarized her message: “Hillary Clinton Declares War on Voter ID.” Verifying identification was unnecessary because, as long as enough ballots showed up with a check by Hillary’s name, she would be irrevocably entitled to all the power she could seize in the following four years.

Lax voting procedures in some states were insufficient to enable Hillary to capture the White House. But the panic induced by Covid-19 enabled politicians to radically loosen the rules for the next presidential election. Many states made it easier—if not automatic—to vote by mail, even though a 2012 New York Times analysis concluded that “fraud in voting by mail is… vastly more prevalent than the in-person voting fraud that has attracted far more attention.” Some states abandoned any effort to verify mail ballots, dropping requirements for matching signatures, return addresses, or having a witness verify the person and the vote. Civil Rights Commissioner J. Christian Adams noted that “Democrats succeeded in tossing out state laws related to absentee ballot verification, deadlines and a whole range of laws all in the name of Covid.”

Neither the Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution (rules for federal elections “shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof”) nor state law stopped the rigging of the 2020 vote. Michigan sent “unsolicited absentee-voter ballot applications by mail to all 7.7 million registered Michigan voters…without signature verification as expressly required” by state law. The Wisconsin Elections Commission approved setting up to 500 unmanned ballot drop boxes in major Democratic cities in violation of Wisconsin law. That commission and local election officials encouraged all Wisconsin “voters to unlawfully declare themselves ‘indefinitely confined’—which under Wisconsin law allows the voter to avoid security measures like signature verification and photo ID requirements,” as the Texas Attorney General noted in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that election officials acted illegally, but that did nothing to nullify the hundreds of thousands of votes that came in via illicit loopholes. Biden carried Wisconsin by 20,000 votes.



To stifle controversy over electoral rule changes, Biden’s media allies created a fairy tale. A week after Election Day, the New York Times ran a banner headline across the top of the front page: “Election Officials Nationwide Find No Fraud.” How did the Times know? Their reporters basically called election officials in each state and asked, “Did y’all have any fraud?”
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👍 Cheated and robbed by corrupt government in so many ways.

11/6 By 9:00 am after 3:30am there will be 300,000 armed people travelling to southern state capitals to support secession.

If Trump gets elected I hope some pursuit of justice takes place.

Beyond the statute of limitations? Maybe Trump could begin all press conferences with a 5 minute block of time that includes a reminder video and then "out" the perpetrators before going on with the conference. There will be news outlets that will carry it, but the guilty will not. Rescind WH passes of those refusing to carry it - no fake news allowed.

last one all too real...

This is truly sickening and corrupt. Totalitarian one-party rule gone out of control. If elected, Trump really needs to clean house!

You're most welcome.
You're up early. Almost 6:30AM here. The only reason a retired me dino is up is because of an early morning doctor's appointment.

Forgot all about Taxi. Believe that was also during the Seventies. Liked the show.

Thaaaaanks for the memories...!!!

Dino, you helped make my day!

Good set this week, OUC! It's hard to believe that more than 15% of the electorate is going to vote for Kommie-La (one has to figure 15% would be easily conned). The lapel pin in #7 is spot on. The Netanyahu trophy room is a work in progress. "HUH?" - exactly! Yeah, that 3:30am on 11/6 could be a bad moon on the rise.

Thanks for the great start to my day, OUC!

Real science, the way it should be, seems like snake oil but government funded snake oil is treated like real science. . . but it's not.

No one understands the sun like Ben Davidson. It's his life long passion.

There are tons of informative videos on his page, 10/12 years of work, not to mention reviving Cyclical Catastrophe Science, the kind that was told, . . . if ya want to study natural cycles, you won't find funding.

I hope Trump wins and he settles the Ukraine war. All that’s happening now is destruction for the sake of ego

The movie was sad, and the song, too. You were lucky to see him in person. He was on Taxi, too, wasn't he? With that little funny voiced Latvian lady?

It just seems like, sorta, snake oil or something. I may be wrong, and I really shouldn't draw any kind of conclusion yet anyway. When you have another interesting video, let me know.

Rented it on DVD when me dino was far better off.
Found his filmed post mortem funeral speech at the end quite sad.

Would you sell different things to not just survive but to continue to do the things you love?
Did you know that he was a research lawyer but he loved watching a learning about the sun so much he quit in order to do this full time.
He writes text books and research papers, his wife writes the kids books and they sell T shirts etc for the business.

He was a very funny man, and the movie "Man on the Moon" I thought was good, too.

Aristophanes' "Cloud Cuckoo Land". The ancient Greek comedic playwright who hated philosophers, and his plays showed the insanity of them.

You have a point. I've always wondered if AOC is actually a paid actress, paid by the Republican Party to give the Democrats a bad image. I posted this once, and someone replied with "And she's doing a good job, too!"
Can anyone really be that dumb?

I was fortunate to catch that LIVE on a Saturday night thanks to being a rural county newspaper reporter during Jimmy Carter's Seventies.
I'll never forget how hard I laughed at that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgJ04...

Beginning to wonder if she/him and a lot of others are just characters in someone's imagination not real people and what we see are just actors.

Well, maybe...but I still think he lacks some validity.
For one thing, he SELLS so many things!

Lash LaRue was my favorite of all the western heroes; but Mighty Mouse was my overall favorite: I'm here to save the day! Remember Andy Kaufman's rendition?

As well as descriptions. Three or four years ago he was half black, now he isn't, you know... guess being black is no longer in fashion.

That's cause he is speaking to us, specific language, unless one IS a practicing scientist, kind of leaves us in the dark,
Now, I know some of it, I've been listening and reading it for a long time but to speak to others, one must uses plain language . . . and there is nothing wrong in that.
He is accepted in the scientific community, a few assholes but most are cool people.

I only use specific language if I have to or talking to a professional, in fact, I don't even like that anymore. Once I understand something then I can describe it simply to others, get everyone on board and excited.
Now that I am old ugly and occasionally forgetful, understanding something is just keeping me interested and alive.