On Jan 12, 2008 Ft. Wayne’s local fish wrap, The Journal Gazette – aka The Daily Punctilio - printed the piece below regarding the Supreme Court case revolving around Indiana’s voter ID law.
SECRETARY of State Todd Rokita has been perhaps the state’s most vocal advocate of the voter ID law that makes Indiana one of only three states requiring voters to produce a photo ID.
Rokita used Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments on the constitutionally of the law to tout the law again – and to heighten his profile – with a news conference on the steps outside the Supreme Court in Washington.
In a news release issued Monday, Rokita, a Republican, repeated some of his same, tired arguments to defend an unnecessary law intended to disenfranchise some Democrats. And he added a unique one:
“In-person fraud, or identity theft – which is what this is, occurs in all facets of our lives. Unfortunately, the fastest-growing crime in the nation does not stop at the polling booth,” Rokita was quoted as saying.
Most Hoosiers understand that identity theft occurs when a criminal gets credit or otherwise incurs bills under another person’s name.
With identity theft becoming a growing concern and gaining public awareness, Rokita saw a chance to bring supposed voter fraud – which has never been proven – under the identity-theft label.
Lex fired off this response to the JG’s tripe.
Re: Furthermore Jan 12, 2008
If you type the words “voter fraud” into the Yahoo search engine, you’ll get about 26,300,000 listings. Given that volume of writing on this subject, there must be at least a hint of the problem around.
But what really struck me were your words “…an unnecessary law intended to disenfranchise some Democrats” to describe Public Law 109-2005, which requires a photo ID.
Why is it always only Democrats who are being disenfranchised? Florida Democrats complained during the 2000 election that they were disenfranchised. Apparently they were not clever enough to follow the big black arrow next to their candidate’s name and punch out the corresponding chad on the ballot designed by DEMOCRATS.
I don’t know anyone in my circle of family and friends obtuse enough to foul up such a simple process, foolish enough to admit it if they did or arrogant enough to blame the mistake on someone else. Yet Democrats proudly wear being “disenfranchised” by a “butterfly ballot” as a badge of honor.
Now Democrats believe that getting up off the couch to obtain a free ID to verify that voters are US citizens living in the precincts in which they are voting is just too onerous a task. It apparently is just too much trouble to get an ID in order to protect and exercise the very right they supposedly hold so dear.
Voter fraud is a bipartisan activity. Because it is “fraud,” it’s not always easy to spot, but because the fraud must be proven to be “willful,” it’s always difficult prove. Voter fraud, rampant identity fraud and the fact that we have between 12-20 million illegal aliens running around the country ought to cause reasonable people to favor taking steps to safeguard our voting process before we lose it to criminals.
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Well I looked up the word. I knew that it did not mean that a restaurant in a restarurant chain was being torn down, but what does it really mean.
"Definition
disenfranchise, verb [T] (ALSO disfranchise):to take away power or opportunities, especially the right to vote, from a person or group
The article says the Indiana law affects Democrats but does not mention other political parties. It would appear that the writer is stereotyping democrats as to stupid, poor, or lazy, to attain a pictured I.D. Stereotyping like this is wrong. Democrats should ask the writer to explain.
The Griffin.
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