{"id":24996,"date":"2015-02-16T16:33:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T21:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24996"},"modified":"2015-02-16T16:33:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T21:33:04","slug":"i-cant-believe-he-said-that-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24996","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Believe He Said That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/craig-millward\/ellison-ive-often-asked-myself-why-you-should-have-register-vote\" target=\"_blank\">CNS News<\/a> is reporting today that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Keith Ellison\" href=\"http:\/\/ellison.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Rep. Keith Ellison<\/a> (D-<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Minnesota\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=46.0,-94.0&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=46.0,-94.0 (Minnesota)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Minn.<\/a>), speaking recently at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usvotefoundation.org\/summit2015-conferenceagenda\">U.S. Vote Foundation&#8217;s Voting and Elections Summit<\/a>, said &#8220;we need to make voting easier,&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ve often asked myself why you should have to register to vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Voter fraud is a problem in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">America<\/a>. I have heard stories from poll watchers, stories of older teenagers sent in to vote multiple times (by their parents) to vote in northeastern cities, and posted stories about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"True the Vote\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/True_the_Vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">True the Vote<\/a> and other organizations that have uncovered significant <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Electoral fraud\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electoral_fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">voter fraud<\/a>. If we do not protect the integrity of our elections, we will have a country run by criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Ellison also criticized <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Voter ID laws\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voter_ID_laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">voter id laws<\/a> as restricting the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Suffrage\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suffrage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">right to vote<\/a>. The statistics do not uphold that claim. In states that have instituted voter id laws, the turnout of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Voting\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">voters<\/a> has not decreased. I support restricting the right to vote of the people not eligible to vote. Ending voter registration will create a free for all of voter fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNS News is reporting today that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), speaking recently at the\u00a0U.S. Vote Foundation&#8217;s Voting and Elections Summit, said &#8220;we need to make voting easier,&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ve often asked myself why you should have to register to vote.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24996\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[847,8736,3568],"class_list":["post-24996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-electoral-fraud","tag-rep-keith-ellison","tag-voter-registration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24997,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996\/revisions\/24997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}