And yet you won’t prove it here…

Different pieces of normal, reasonable ID are not being accepted for voting. If they were, this wouldn’t be an issue or not as much of a one. They often legislate a special government voting ID which immediately creates barriers for the disabled, the elderly, the poor without vehicles, etc.. Many times that’s been compounded by saying that you need a passport first, or some other papers, before you can acquire this special voting ID.

GOP controlled states have targeted obvious Democratic leaning groups with surgical precision and are trying to keep that vote down as much as possible. Cancellation, or shortening, of early voting…stopping registration drives in Florida…threatening the league of women voters with legal action…having too few voting machines in heavily Democratic districts in Ohio in 2000 and 2004 (we’ll see it this year)…having early voting in Republican districts but not Dem districts in Ohio (until there were complaints)…hiring a firm to throw out and alter Democratic registrations (the FBI are on this)…onerous ID laws that disproportionately affect some groups over others…cancelling the Sunday before the election voting (targeting African-American churches)…using gun permits as voting ID in Texas but not University ID cards…a GOP rep. saying on videotape that Pennsylvania’s new ID laws would guarantee the state to Romney. There’s no end to it.

This is just an over the top attempt to mould and shape an electorate that favours Republicans, period.

I’d ask you how animals and felons are voting because of no ID requirements, but I’m not sure I want to know the answer.

I’ve seen international posters at the National Memo from all over the world. Maybe some of them can blog in and tell us about their election ID laws, or lack thereof. Don’t know about elsewhere, but there are no ID requirements to vote in Canada and you’re never asked for it. There is never, ever, any talk of voter fraud in Canada. It’s an unknown concept. Trust me on that.

I’d ask why American conservatives are utterly consumed with voter fraud, but I think I already know the answer to that. That are those you don’t want voting alright, but they mostly go by the names of African-Americans and Hispanic Americans.

And your characterization of the Democrats as “left-wing socialist” shows where on the spectrum “moderate to extreme right” you sit. Naturally, from where you sit out in Mussolini-Franco-Hitlerland, just about anyone who is rational and sane is “far left” of you, even moderate conservatives like Obama and Bill Clinton. I’m not sure even Barry Goldwater would pass muster in today’s “Grand Old Party.” Much too liberal, like that paragon of left-wing liberalism, John McCain.