Letters to the editor, May 16, 2008

Voter fraud is an issue in America

In 2001, voter registration in the United States exceeded the number of eligible voters in the census database. In 1999 there was a big to-do about registering bogus people and pets in California. The radical left-wing group Tennessee Citizen Action is currently under scrutiny for submitting a couple of hundred fraudulent voter registration forms. The Mexican illegal who assassinated a Mexican presidential candidate was registered to vote in California — twice. In Ohio a couple of liberal groups, including the NAACP, are under investigation for suspicion of submitting more than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration forms. A group in Wisconsin, who claims to have registered 30,000 voters, may be criminally liable for submitting a large number of fake registrations.

So, Carol Jensen (“The Supreme Court upholds voter photo ID law,” May 12); voter fraud is not a problem, huh?

Carol might want to pick up a copy of John Fund’s “Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens our Democracy.” But, of course she won’t because she has preferred her own version of reality that invariably leads across the Bridge to Terabithia into t realm where liberals can be gods.

But I will agree with her on one point. Requiring ID at the polls is largely ineffective because the voters that do show up with ID may be bogus in the first place, reason being — some time ago they registered fraudulently. Anyone who has done any voter registration at all realizes that laws against requiring any ID at all, just the signature on a possibly false voter registration application are nothing short of corrupt and are generally beneficial to only one political party.

Another encouragement to voter fraud: Those folks that do submit fake registrations and are found out if at all, receive little or no punishment for their crime.

Amazingly and perhaps paradoxically, Mexico has a much more secure registration system. In order to register, you must present proof including a picture, a signature, and a thumbprint. This process has been credited with electing the first opposition party presidential candidate in 70 years, Vicente Fox. Perhaps that’s a reason why some illegals are here: They love to vote and it’s easier for one person to vote frequently and numerously?

Incredibly, in most significant transactions, we are required to present ID, except what most consider the most significant transaction of all, keeping our country free.

Yup, voter fraud is just not a big problem, if you’re a liberal.

Robert A. Vasseur
Newberry Springs