In their ongoing attempt to steal the right to vote from students, workers, the disabled, and minorities, Republicans have been quick to make false allegations of voter fraud, despite conclusive evidence from a DOJ investigation that voter fraud accounts for less than one ten thousandth of one percent, a statistically insignificant amount. South Carolina’s new voter ID law is so draconian that DOJ has blocked it’s implementation on Constitutional grounds. In response SC Republicans are claiming over 900 dead people voted in the recent primary, and trotted out their six best examples. The truth here is almost comical.
The highlight of last week’s War on Voting was South Carolina’s Attorney General Alan Wilson claiming that 900 dead people voted in "recent" elections in his state based on data from the DMV. The South Carolina legislature, of course, jumped on the claim.
Remember, the Department of Justice has blocked South Carolina from implementing a voter ID bill passed last year under the Voting Rights Act, arguing that the new law would create an unconstitutional impediment to voting by certain groups. The state is fighting back, hence this hearing. Which didn’t go exactly as planned.
State Election Commission director Marci Andino testified that some of the voters the DMV data said were dead are very much alive – and were eligible to cast a ballot. […]
In a news release that election agency spokesman Chris Whitmire handed out prior to the hearing, the agency disputed the claim that dead people had voted. One allegedly dead voter on the DMV’s list cast an absentee ballot before dying; another was the result of a poll worker mistakenly marking the voter as his deceased father; two were clerical errors resulting from stray marks on voter registration lists detected by a scanner; two others resulted from poll managers incorrectly marking the name of the voter in question instead of the voter above or below on the list.
The attorney general’s office had only given the State Election Commission six names off its list of 950 or so names to examine. The agency found every one of them to be alive and otherwise eligible to vote, except for the one who had voted before dying.
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How dare that voter have the audacity to die before election day! It must have been a Librul Alinsky Conspiracy!
Are Republicans really seeing dead people, or are they the frauds?
It appears to me is that the only voter fraud going on here is Republican fraud about voters.
Why is it that one party works to make sure that everyone gets to exercise their right to vote and the other party tries to take away people’s right to vote?
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Dang, with those eyes, Haley looks like a head-hung-low hound dawg!
With so many Republican/Teabagger government officials, state and federal, trying to control the vote, it makes me wonder if there isn’t something more sinister afoot? Either that, or they recognise that the writing is on the wall and they are running scared! Perhaps the greatest gift at this point that the OWS protests have given the people, is the gift of opening their eyes and questioning what is going on about them. I hope this is the case because when people realise that they can and must participate in government, then they are less likely to follow blindly.
Lynn, this is nothing new. Republicans cheat every chance they get.
lol the dunce hat fits the Republians well 🙂
That is a Tin Foil hat to protect us by keeping the Teabuggered brain waves from escaping and infecting us.
I really don’t consider that place as a “state” – it is the pit of hell (which coming from an Atheist is saying a lot!) – it’s the beginning and end of bigotry – the genesis of slave trade – the genesis in this country of aristocracy – and they are all slime – anyone who lives there knows exactly why – either they were former plantation owners, slaves or bigots who decided to find a territory where they could perform their perversions in public! Nothing that happens in the god forsaken piece of earth surprises me – similar to Afghanistan only a little bit worse! Why don’t you ask me how I feel about South Carolina
All true, but there are some good people living there.
thanks!
You’re welcome, Rob. I’m afraid I’m picking on SC again tomorrow.
Seems to me that ANYTHING requiring voters to PAY should be illegal. It was once required to be a land owner & that was defeated…simply because a voter cannot afford land…or in the NEW controversy, the cost of birth certificates & special ID…should be ILLEGAL. Citizens deserve something for the payment of taxes(hidden fees & licenses)….receiving ID and the documents to obtain an ID should be one of the ‘free’doms of our great Nation!
Zada, I fully agree. One of the most onerous things about these laws is that they function as a Poll Tax.
Well, I’m glad to see the DOJ stepped in to stop the outrageous requirements for the right to vote. If only all such attempts were blocked. Has anyone noticed (and I’m sure all of Tom’s readers have) that the new TeaPublican governors are in lock-step as to their goals, which includes the institution of these controls on voting? How much more blatant do these bigoted Fuhrers have to be before all of us wake up and smell the farts?
That’s because the same people are writing all the laws of that type. Once they have one, they pass it around.
The only voter fraud being committed in the USA is the RepublicanTs attempts at voter suppression.
Agreed.
The truth remains buried the right wing media wont report it, and until Faux noise does, sheeple refuse to believe.
They tried to prove voter fraud, by committing voter fraud, in New Hampshire and were caught red-handed.
Welcome Amber! 🙂
Thank you I know and am hoping for a criminal conviction.
I’d hardly call 6 people a statistical sample – unless they are extrapolating.
Lisa, those six were the ones Republicans picked themselves to represent their argument.