Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch is at it again. The Democrat who presided over a 2010 vote casting and counting scandal in the tight race for governor was caught on video guaranteeing Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Christopher Murphy a big result in the state's largest city-even if it takes days to count.
The 2012 election will be one of the hardest-fought in U.S. history. This brief video gives compelling facts about the possibility of vote fraud and what to do about it, based on the book Who's Counting? by Hans von Spakovsky and John Fund.
With fewer than 40 days to go before the 2012 election, access to the voting booth could determine the outcome on Nov. 6. It ought to be simple: If you're an American citizen eligible to vote and can prove it with identification, you should be allowed to cast a ballot. If you can't, you shouldn't. It's really not that complicated. Read more: EDITORIAL: Electing to tolerate voter fraud - Washington Times https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/26/electing-to-tolerate-voter-fraud/#ixzz27g9HmAQV Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
Americans treasure their constitutional rights and perhaps the most essential one - the right to cast your vote and to have it count - is gradually being eroded. There is a movement underway to convince the public that requiring someone to prove his or her identity in order to vote constitutes "suppression." Yes, that's the argument that Governor Beverly Perdue gave when she vetoed the photo ID law (HB 351) enacted by North Carolina's legislature.
John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky, authors of Who's Counting?, do a smackdown on CSPAN2's "After Words" host Linda Killian on the topic of voter ID laws and the campaign to stop vote fraud.
When the polls closed on the November 2008 U.S. Senate election, I was ahead of Al Franken for the Minnesota seat by 215 votes out of nearly 3 million votes that had been cast. Eight months later, Al Franken was declared the winner of the recount with a margin of 312 votes. A few months after that, Obamacare passed the U.S. Senate on a straight party-line, filibuster-proof 60 votes....Elections matter. I have no desire to re-litigate the 2008 election, but elections matter.
The Minnesota Supreme Court decided Monday that a referendum approved by the state legislature to amend the state constitution to require voter ID will also be on the ballot in November. The League of Women Voters had tried to convince the court that the people of Minnesota should not be allowed to decide this issue.
In their new book Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk, authors John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky present hard evidence that voter fraud (some of it well-organized), combined with incompetence, alleged "reforms," and bureaucratic indifference have undermined the popular trust in America's most precious right: picking our leaders.
"Legitimate Voters Blocked by Photo ID Laws" read the headline of a July 10 Associated Press article. Sounds pretty damning. It turns out, though, that the article lacked key information about two Indiana voters that might have changed the whole tenor of the story.
Secretaries of State from Kansas, Colorado and South Carolina joined TruetheVote's Catherine Englebrecht, and former Alabama Rep. Artur Davis in a panel discussion at the Heritage Foundation that addressed the many erroneous notions about photo ID laws. ACRU's Robert Knight, who attended, said, "They hit it out of the park, especially when answering questions posed by two leftwing activists in the audience."