As we gear up for the 2012 election (yes, I know it is waaay too early), many states are looking at ways to cut back on the amount of voter fraud. Many states saw fraudulent voter registration in the last election. There have been many stories across the internet about the investigations of these problems. Houston Votes was an organization that registered 25,000 new voters for the 2008 election. A later investigation by an organization called True The Vote found that only 1,793 of those were actually legally registered voters. (RightWingGranny.com).
On Sunday the San Francisco Chronicle posted an article stating:
"Less than 18 months before the next presidential election, Republican-controlled statehouses around the country are rewriting voting laws to require photo identification at the polls, reduce the number of days of early voting or tighten registration rules."
Why is it that only Republican-controlled statehouses are trying to prevent voter fraud? Where are the Democrats?
Democrats complain that the requirement for voter ID blocks young voters, elderly voters and minority voters from being able to vote. I am not an expert on this, but how do the people in that group buy cigarettes, alcohol, or cough medicine? I really think that if you have to show identification to purchase these things, it is not unreasonable to have to show some form of identification to vote.
Again, it is the interesting that the Democrats don't seem to support measures to prevent voter fraud.
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