Voter Fraud and Republican Hyprocrisy

I guess this explains it all. (five string)

The Republicans of the Right (not to be confused with correct) have been running a national legislative campaign to suppress what they call “voter fraud.”  In order to vote, they are demanding all sorts of elaborate identification, even though this same person is clearly registered and may have been voting legally for the past 60 years.  For them, this is a Big Issue, even though the number of people convicted of voter fraud  

The facts paint a quite different picture.  According to a report by the public-integrity section of the Justice Department found that from October 2002 to September 2005, the department charged 95 people with “election fraud”; 55 were convicted.

Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/us/politics/27fraud.html?pagewanted=all
 {Please note:  The Republicans were in charge of the White House during those years!}

Listening to the GOP candidates, you would think that voter fraud is really a Big Deal. (as opposed to the Republican engineered election fraud that stole the 2000 election from Al Gore) Apparently, voter fraud is a danger to the United States on the same level as flag burning!  Of course, making it very difficult to vote keeps the voter turnout of many of the traditional Democratic and independent voters down.  This includes the elderly, who may not drive or have a birth certificate handy, the poor, who may not have the “proper” i.d. or the time to get it or the disabled, who have mobility and communications problems.

When it comes to purchasing a gun, the Republicans have no problem.  There is no national registry check to insure that the gun buyer is not a criminal, a citizen, a psycho or even blind!  Anyone with the dough can buy firearms through gun shows, dealers or “private sales.”  No i.d. is required in many cases.  In 2009, guns took the lives of 31,347 Americans in homicides, suicides and unintentional shootings.

Reference: http://www.lcav.org/statistics-polling/gun_violence_statistics.asp#3

 Apparently, the GOP can live with this, as the most rabid gun owners, who go apeshit at the idea of firearms registration, most are likely to vote Republican.  Anyway, many of the victims of gun deaths are minorities, so it’s no big deal, but, God forbid, just don’t try to vote! 
Ok, Granny, bring your loaded AK-47 to church, but just be sure you have your officially issued new voter i.d. when you go to the same polling place you have gone to for the past 20 years or the righties will get you!



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