DOJ Blocks Court-Approved Voter ID Law In Georgia
I first learned of this via Ol’ Broad yesterday. At issue is the 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Georgia passed a law requiring proof of citizenship after learning of widespread voting fraud by illegal aliens and others. Tennessee is considering similar legislation. Such laws have been upheld by the Supreme Court as constitutional (Crawford v. Marion County Election Board).
The Obama Administration (DOJ) has taken it upon itself to over-rule the Supreme Court and the State of Georgia and has ordered Georgia NOT to implement the law. The only thing that Georgia (or Tennessee for that matter) is attempting to do is verify that a voter is who they say they are and are a citizen of the United States. This is common sense legislation which only a true-blue partisan could oppose.
As we saw with Chavez in Venezuela, the Obama Administration is moving to secure its power base. The support of ACORN and enlisting it in the 2010 census, the “turning of the head” to the voter intimidation tactics of the New Black Panthers, and other moves are designed to secure the Administrations grip on the ballot box for 2010 and beyond. In this case it is a blatant effort to dismiss the Supreme Court and the 10th Amendment in an all-out grasp for power. People had better start waking up while there is yet time.
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I guess this is why Chavez says that Obama is more liberal than he or Fidel Castro…
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First of all, this wasn’t a “power grab” by the DOJ or the Obama administration – the Attorney General’s decision was made in accordance with pre-existing law, specificially Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which requires certain states with a history of voter suppression to get changes in their voting laws approved by the DOJ. Georgia is one such state.
So, even if you believe that law is overreaching, you can’t blame the present administration for it. They’re just operating within the confines of present law.
Secondly, all this concern about “widespread voter fraud” is silly. Investigations of such things have largely found three major phenomena: 1) people mistakenly filling out registration forms, 2) people acting not out of criminal intent but confusion their eligibility, and 3) insignificant vote-buying operations in sheriff and judicial elections.
The last of these has little to do with ineligible voting; the former two could be corrected with improved education and a SIMPLIFIED registration process. None of these justifies setting up increased roadblocks to getting and staying on the voter rolls – especially when such efforts have repeatedly been shown to make it increasingly difficult for eligible, minority citizens to vote.
Please see:
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/06/doj-rejects-georgia-voter-verification.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/washington/12fraud.html
Have you heard of the 10th Amendment and State’s Rights? Georgia (and no other State) needs the approval of anyone in the Federal government to adopt whatever laws they see fit that comply with established constitutional law. You are refering to a law, I am refering to the Constitution and the Supreme Court has already ruled on the subject.
It is nothing more than a power-grab by the Obama Administration. And don’t lecture me on voter fraud. I am a Registrar in Memphis and know quite a bit about the subject (would you like to talk dead people voting?). We had a woman who lived in Arkansas, but was voting in Memphis by providing an invalid address. Using our new ID requirements, I stopped a case personally at the polling place. That individual had registered under multiple DoB’s (same name). So you obviously have no clue about voter fraud.
The only reason to defend the actions of the DOJ would be because if illegal voting is stopped then we would not have so many liberals in office. Look at the results from elections past and see the correlation of liberal districts and high crime rates. The areas that are the most liberal in the nation also have the highest crime rate. Look at the presidential election of 2004 as an example. Of the 25 most dangerous cities in America over 75% voted Democrat. Actually the stats were a little higher for the Dems, but some election results were listed by county and not city. The ones where the Republicans had the majority and were high crime areas were county only results. These were stats from the election commissions and the FBI crime stats.