Proposed voter photo ID amendment receives first examination at Minnesota Legislature
February 1, 2012 at 12:06 pm in Grand Forks Herald
Just four of more than 30 witnesses at a five-hour Minnesota legislative committee meeting spoke in favor of the proposed constitutional amendment, which Republicans who control the Minnesota Legislature back in the name of preventing voter fraud. Continue Reading
How many cases of ‘voter fraud’ have there been in Minnesota in the past 10 years? How many people have been convicted of this terrible crime? Has this become such a huge problem that there needs to be a constitutional amendment? Really? Have any of you wondered why, in all the states where there are new Republican governments, there is a sudden interest in passing legislation preventing ‘voter fraud’. And why there has been such a surge of interest in controlling women’s reproductive organs, their right to chose? Wonder why that is.
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Oh, by the way, according to an article written last April in the New Yorks Times, there have been 120 people charged and 86 convicted as of last year. There has been ‘virtually no evidence of any organized efforts to skew federal elections’. The Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud. Republican activists have repeatedly claimed that voter fraud was so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and possibly cost the party election victories. Certainly not the 86 people who were convicted! I doubt that any of the elections at any level were that close. Sorry, you can’t count Santorum’s primary victory over Romney!
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