Democrats here at MyLot...

ParaTed, many of these plans to stop voter fraud are not ment to help end voter fraud, they are ment to scare people into not voting. Take the homeless people, if we were to use republican led voter reform, they wouldn't be able to vote. Ted, please show me were in the constitution it says that you have to have an address to vote? Or, a home, or state approved ID? It doesn't, and if the republicans want to change the constitution then go ahead and take your fight to the American people. I would love to hear republicans say that homeless Americans don't have the same rights as the rest of us. Here in Ohio have seen eleciton officals that have tried to limit the votes in urban areas by hiring police officers to assist in security only at urban voting boths. They didn't hire them for the rual areas: I wonder why that is, Ted? Here in Ohio, republicans are going to do everything they can to win this state, and they don't care about the constitution, the only thing different from 2004 is the fact that republicans have been thrown out of office. This will be the first fair and balanced election the state of Ohio has seen in 12 years. Kiss Ohio good bye republicans.

This is quite a difficult question. The people committing the voter fraud see themselves as heroes protecting the country. I came to this conclusion after overhearing 2 democratic locals who help run our local voting discuss the subject. Their position was that Republicans were worse than Nazi's and anything that could be done to prevent this evil from getting into office was not only justified but the patroitic thing to do. Additionally, we once had a local newspaper editor who started looking into and editorializing about voter fraud in the county. He was fired. These 2 things which happened here pretty much convinced me we won't solve voter fraud any time soon.

Just the idea of democrates voting against something like that has to make you wonder what is going on. It is also very interesting to me that they are the party that is stopping any construction of a wall with Mexico. Hmm. Could it be that illegals will most likely vote for demos if they can only get here? Could it be they would lose their power base if they did? Odd, isn;t it?

"What measures would you suggest to keep people who aren't eligible to vote from voting," Requiring current state or university issued photo ID. Setting a cutoff for registration early enough that a criminal record's check can be completed before the voter registration card is mailed. "or those who are eligible from voting several times in one election?" The problem here is with absentee ballots. I see little reason why election officials can't come up with a procedure for counting these ballots that allows for verification of registration and eligibility to vote, ie. that the voter has not already cast a vote. Smaller counties should be required to use current technology instead of the outdated #2 pencil and a printed form like we do here in Hooterville.

Haha well surprise surprise, back when Bush was running against Gore, Obama's little community organizer stint involved the organization ACORN, which was WELL-known for being involved with voter fraud. The Democrats vote against the plans because they're the ones that start it! They've been picking people up off the streets lately and letting them register at the Y or whatever, and letting them vote early, without even checking if they're legally registered in that county. There's been so much voter fraud lately I'm totally predicting another Florida situation with this election. I think the only thing we can do is ALWAYS check the person's ID, make sure it looks like them on the ID, and make sure that there is a list of who all is registered in that county, and if they're not there, then don't let them vote!

How about making it a policy across the nation to provide state-accepted ID for -anyone- for free, not just at election time, but all the time? I worked at a homeless shelter for years. One of our biggest out-of-pocket - and I literally mean out of pocket, since most often it was one of our supervisors who took out his wallet - expenses was the $15 for a birth certificate which was required to get the $25 state picture ID required to cash any kind of check in the state - usually for our guys who were working and couldn't cash their paychecks because they didn't have a valid picture ID. And THAT only helped if the person was born in our city. If they were born elsewhere, they had to write away for the birth certificate and wait up to six weeks to get their birth certificate, or go to the city of their birth to get their birth certificate, since no city in our state will provide a birth certificate to anyone other than the individual or their parent/legal guardian. I'll fully support requiring a valid picture ID in order to cast a vote when a state picture ID can be provided for any legal state resident over the age of 18 at no cost.

I'm not real crazy about a national I.D. but using our state I.D's sounds like an excellent solution for each person having only one vote, and it is much harder to do a fraudulent registration.. Imagine! Just being able to walk in and sign up under any old name to vote! How ridiculous is that! Most states already require some sort of identification for all citizens.. And hey, if someone isn't a citizen, why should they vote? (Before they have finished the pathway to citizenship?) When the parties bring in busloads of people, I'd just soon it not be the same busload repeatedly! Some campaigns even pay people to register others.. how's that for motivation to commit fraud!

Well, considering the last time voter fraud was suspected it benefited the republicans, I would think there was something else in that bill that the democrats didn't agree with. Politicians always throw things in to bills that have nothing to do with them, but you don't hear that someone voted down a health care bill because it had amendments for tax cuts for the wealthy. We rarely know that stuff is in there, just that those bad (insert party here) voted down this important bill.

The only thing I've ever seen democrats do to prevent voter fraud was throwing out absentee ballots in Florida during the 2000 election because they lacked a postmark. Oddly enough that strategy led them to throw out military absentee ballots that were delivered by boat and subsequently had no postmark. Fascinating how that worked out. Of course Bush won the state despite those votes being thrown out and he is still accused of stealing the election. Four recounts will never convince the democrats otherwise.

I really DO NOT understand the Dems thinking that having to show your picture ID discriminates against the poor and minorities. Any poor person has to have picture ID in order to get government assistance, a county health card, food stamps. If they have the IDs, then what's the problem? I read that here in Ohio the Republicans are suing because one can actually register to vote and vote on the same day. That doesn't allow for any checking for voter fraud. Not a good idea at all.