Sure. One brave lady buckled down, found all that was strong inside her, and — thanks to an iron will and a yearning for freedom that was nigh unquenchable — was somehow able to overcome the state’s new poll tax that sought invidiously to disenfranchise her and millions like her. By hopping on a bus, bringing some old documentation, and getting herself a spanking new free ID.
But that doesn’t mean others of putatively similar intelligence or means or circumstance will be able to manage that same near miracle, does it?
No. We didn’t think so. Racists.
(thanks to bh)
I had heard through the grapevine that the ACLU types behind this were furious – yes, furious – that their lead Plaintiff got her ID and can vote without any particular difficulty.
John Fund and Hans Von Spakovsky talk on C-Span BookTV [with a leftist drone — so humorous situations guaranteed] about the newly released edition of “Who’s Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk“. The tag-teaming is kinda like overkill, but the arguments are well presented evenso.
The drone, after her every effort to defend opposition to Voter ID has been undercut, soundly defeated at every turn, finally resorts to asking the rhetorical question “Why then do the Democrats oppose Voter ID? Surely we don’t think they want vote fraud?”
To which Fund responds:
And Von Spakovsky:
[Well, for all practical purposes anyhow.]
So, if there are so damn many people that are being “disenfranchised” by voter ID laws, where the hell are they all hiding? How come they can only find one to be a witness for the plaintiffs? And how come it really wasn’t all that hard for her to get her shiny new ID?
Sdferr: I believe — based on my interactions on this topic with acquaintances — are genuinely concerned about, but sorely misinformed about the topic.
We’re talking rank-and-file, here.
The leftist leadership, on the other hand: do they want vote fraud? Yes. Yes they do.
Fund’s actual response to the silly rhetorical was essential straight down that line rjacobse: there are local jurisdictions in which vote fraud is a firmly entrenched tradition, he says, and preservation of that fraud is precisely their aim. He doesn’t expand to the motives of the national democrat leadership, since that’s what the drone had hoped he would do and he’d have none of it. Still, you have the truth of the matter. It’s a deliberate strategy, without doubt.
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