“…justify erecting barriers against whole groups of voters.”

Getting and showing an ID is in no way, shape, or form erecting any barriers, particularly against any specific group. Whenever I see this nonsense, the only conclusion I can deduce is that these people want to see continued electoral fraud because it benefits mostly Democrats.

Most of your sources are newspapers, and who reads those? Certainly not anyone at the NYT.

They know more people that voted for Nixon, than commited Vote Fraud.

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A couple thoughts:
1. This NYT’s goof is either being dishonest or willfully ignorant.
2. I have to show ID to buy beer. Hopefully even a NYT columnist would agree that the integrity of our voting process is more important than my getting drunk.
3. A major unreported form of voter fraud is double voting by absentee ballot. There was one case of retirees registering to vote in Florida while continuing to vote in New York by absentee ballot. With modern computers it should not be difficult to tie voter rolls to the Social Security system. Any SS numbers being used more than once should be sorted out prior to elections. This also should help clear the Chicago voters rolls of the deceased voters.

Pet feed. So far, nothing. But they do eat whatever I put in front of them.

In all of the discussions I’ve heard on the cable shows about how legislatures are trampling on voter rights by requiring picture ID, I’ve never heard them mention Florida.

Florida is now the third largest state along with NY for EV. FL went on picture ID at the polls after the Bush/Gore fubar. Every political party especially the (D)’s wanted voter ID. Since then, nothing but smooth sailing in every election.

For the naysayers about voter suppression of the minority vote, nonsense. Barry carried FL in 2008 with an historic African American vote and they all had picture ID because they had to, to vote.

If someone showed up without a picture ID, they voted by provisional ballot and only 30K ballots were cast this way after the 2008 election out of over 8million. And all of these ballots were examined, some not counted because the voter wasn’t registered. Voter ID is probably the best thing that has ever happened for the supervisor’s of elections in FL.

I don’t think Rumsfeld’s axiom applies to media bias. I’ve worked in media for more than two decades. Within the professional orgs I qualified for, I am one of a minuscule minority of conservatives. I see these organizations from inside.

I’ve done wire service work. I can’t tell you how many times the red pen got applied because I told the truth.

There’s a very good analysis, complete with respectable citations, at Front Page That site is a conservative site, but the citations are based on studies of what many call legacy media. It was written shortly before the 2008 General Election.

‘The Washington Post’ admitted bias after the 2008 elections, by the way. I’m sure that article is still online.

Associations with media are well-documented by Seymour Hersh in the book ‘The Dark Side of Camelot.’ Democrats owned the media; Hersh documents the assertion.

If you want to experience the bias first hand, invite 7 or 8 reporters out for a drink. Talk politics. It won’t take you long, if they’re honest, for you to see where their ideology lies.

Then there’s Journolist. That list coordinated coverage of the 2008 General. Politico and others explained it away, but in my opinion, there was outright collusion.

As for voter fraud, there was a recent case in Florida. The Miami Herald said, “Supervisor of Elections Jada Woods Williams was charged with 17 counts of neglect of duty and corrupt practices.”

In that newspaper story, the reporter pointed out the Florida legislature is GOP-controlled. The reporter did not mention the supervisor is a Dem.

There was the Al Franken fiasco. Only after it was too late did we learn that more than 300 felons cast illegal votes–last time I looked, several had been charged officially.

Hersh also documents voter fraud by the way in the election JFK won–Cook County is notorious for such behavior.

I realize Republicans try to be rational when it comes to media bias and such, preferring to see evidence. As a journalist, I like to see evidence too.

But when I see the sharp contrast in treatment given Republican or conservative candidates and Dem or prog candidates, the only conclusion I can come to is that there is a pervasive progressive ideology at play in most major newsrooms and in much of online media. If you want to have some fun, try some Google searches for Bush or Obama, or Gore and Bush.

It’s my opinion that legacy media played a major role in electing Obama. They have yet to vet him. That’s no surprise when you recall it took The National Enquirer to break the story on John Edwards and his affair.

I just read the blog where he responds to these, and say….well, that is all you got, no big deal….

He seems to be an idealogue like Jon Stewart, who will stick to their point no matter what sort of argument you counter him with, and how little he can respond. Fact is, without the ability to require a picture ID it is very difficult to check whether someone has cast a ballot as someone other than themselves…it would be like saying there are probably very few felony convictions of underage people actually buying hard liquor at liquor stores….hence there is no problem of people under age 21…so why do we require picture ID?

I still want to know who the “entire groups are”…other than the dead?

Despite relentless whining by Republicans, the Republican US Attorney (during two Bush Administrations) and the Republican Attorney General do not seem to have investigated voter fraud in Philadelphia or anywhere else.

If there is voter fraud, why haven’t the Republicans investigated and prosecuted? What could be the reason. Is it possible that voter fraud is vastly exaggerated?

A Colorado Secretary of State department study identified nearly 12,000 registered voters who were not citizens. 5,000 of them voted illegally last November. (Sources: 31 Mar. 2011 The Hill, Americans for Legal Immigration)
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Following the 2008 election, we attended an Election Training session prior to a municipal vote, and someone asked about the Provisional ballots, since we hadn’t seen them before. Our instructor beamed and reported that of 130 Provisionals from all the precincts, only 3 had to be refused.

I asked whether 130 voters had come to the Election Board within 5 days to prove their eligibility with photo i.d., birth certificate, proof of change of address, etc. She was visibly flustered, but then said, “Well, we were able to verify ourselves that most of them were actually just in the wrong precinct or something, so were were able to vote them.”