Voter Fraud Begins with the Legislature
(Texas • )
The Texas Senate is winding up its half-assed attempt to show the public the urgent need for creating a law so that you’ll now have to show a photo ID before you vote. I’ve read their reasoning and heard their arguments, and it’s all so transparent that there’s almost no point in calling bullshit because everyone involved, in both major political parties, is already fully aware it’s all bullshit.
The crux is simple: The demographics of Texas are such that the state is assured of seeing a large influx of Hispanic residents in both the immediate and longer-term future. By far the majority of the state’s new residents will, if they become politically involved at all, go Democrat, because the unofficial but widespread Republican belief is that Hispanics are here illegally until they can prove otherwise, and are ruining our hospitals and schools because they occasionally require medical attention and want to be educated.
So to stave off the inevitable time when a Democrat majority sweeps them out of office, the Republican-controlled Legislature has crafted Voter ID law. The only photo ID most any Texan carries around is his or her driver’s license. But new Hispanic residents, historically of relatively modest means, are more likely than most people to not own vehicles, and thus not be in possession of a driver’s license.
Voila! At least several tens of thousands of nearly pure Democrat votes disappear as if by magic!
So here’s two things I ask:
No. 1, don’t come around pretending that there’s this great urgent need to stop some mythical snowball of voter fraud from picking up speed, because it’s just irritating to us out here in the hinterlands to know you think we’re that stupid. Be man enough to admit you’re jimmying with the rules because you can. That we understand.
No. 2, apparently you’re now not only going to make me carry around my driver’s license, which I do anyway, but you’re also going to make me carry around my voter registration card. My voter registration card won’t fit in my wallet. It comes with all this extra cardboardy stuff around the edges and tells me not to cut it off. Look, if I’m going to have to remember to take this thing with me to vote, start making it wallet sized, and laminate the sucker. Then you can charge me a $5 processing fee and eliminate several thousand more poor people from voting all in one brilliant stroke.
→ B.Dunn, Mar 11, 2009, 05 36 am
They do think we are stupid – and since Republicans still continue to control the Legislature and occupy the Governor’s rented house, apparently they are right.
It’s all about creating the appearance of effective government, but accomplishing absolutely nothing. And we keep re-electing these people, so it must be working.
— Dennis Mar 16, 06:00 am #
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