Friday, September 13, 2013

Voter Suppression?

Since Colorado recalled two State Senators earlier this week, there has been lots of noise from the Left charging "voter suppression".  That made me curious, so I did a bit of web surfing to find related stories.

The only reasonable explanation I could find was an article written by someone on the Left who tried to accuse the Colorado Secretary of State of attempting to block registered voters from casting their vote in the recall election.  That led me to read about the challenge brought by Democrats, when I discovered that the argument was about whether or not each county should send ballots to registered voters who didn't show up for last year's election.  Colorado calls them "inactive voters", therefore they strip them from the mailing list.

This is what constitutes voter suppression to the radical Left?  Suppose I add another twist to the story and reveal that they got a judge to tell Colorado they should go ahead and allow the ballots to be mailed to those voters.  The story I read said that's exactly what happened, as several counties went ahead and sent them out. 

So where's the suppression exactly?  Did anybody tell a single eligible voter that they won't be allowed to vote?  No.  Is Angela Giron a sore loser, or does she have proof that her supporters were not allowed to cast their ballots?  Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the pathological flamethrowing liar from the Democratic party, says voters were denied their rights in Colorado, and we should believe her precisely because ...?

Google returns a bunch of stories on the subject that suggest the Democrats tried to bus in a large number of out-of-state folks to cast ballots for their recalled senators but were rebuffed.  If the anger being expressed is over illegal voters being suppressed, unless we belong to the end-justifies-the-means wing of the Democratic party, exactly why would we have a problem with the law being enforced?

I recall the days when Indiana's Voter ID law was challenged all the way to the Supreme Court, where it was upheld, by the way.  The Democratic Party trotted out a woman who claimed it was too much of a burden for her to get a photo ID, therefore she felt her right to vote was being suppressed.  Some intrepid reporter checked on who the woman was, and it turned out she was ineligible to vote in Indiana anyway.

Who but the most corrupt or naive American believes this overwrought drivel about Republicans conspiring to keep Democrats from voting?  I have yet to see a single story of actual voter suppression (of a Democratic voter).  Of course, there are lots of stories out there about attempted suppression of Republican voters?  Does anyone really believe that there's not a single Republican within the city limits of Cleveland and Philadelphia? 

Government of, by, and for the ignorant and stupid, I suppose.

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