I haven’t covered it, because it’s been covered just about everywhere else, and I’m sure others have said what I’m about to say. In James O’Keefe’s latest sting video, he and an associate are seen using the names of dead New Hampshirites to obtain primary ballots to vote in the first-in-the-nation primary held there at different polling locations. There was a report earlier this week of a young man who tried to do that, and had a poll worker note that the person of that name was dead, to be told that she’d find out soon enough what it was about. I wondered at the time whether it might be O’Keefe.
Last year, the New Hampshire Legislature passed a photo ID law that was vetoed by the Governor. New Hampshire has an open primary, so there’s a good deal of room for cross-party meddling. That’s just the way it goes. You’ll recall that in 2008, Rush Limbaugh used open primaries to drag out the nomination race between Obama and Hillary Clinton.
What O’Keefe has done is to demonstrate how easy it is to acquire ballots in the names of the recently dead when purging the voter rolls isn’t given high priority, and when there’s no photo ID requirement in place. For that, he must be punished. In New Hampshire, it’s not just a crime to cast a fraudulent ballot, but simply to obtain one by means of fraud. Liberal groups are saying that O’Keefe’s sting proves nothing about voter fraud (which is extremely rare), but at the same time an Obama campaign lawyer is among those looking to charge O’Keefe.
The bind that O’Keefe has placed them in is this: Liberals continually state that registration fraud does not equate to voter fraud. That’s been the argument of the GAB in Wisconsin, for instance, when they say that as long as Mickey Mouse and Adolph Hitler seem to have plausible Wisconsin addresses, they’re not going to remove the signatures from a recall petition. Now, they have to defend the proposition that there’s a significant difference at law between false registration and false obtainment of a ballot, even if that ballot is not cast. I think that’s going to be a hard case to make.
The problem for the left is that O’Keefe’s sting has gotten results.
- Excited
- Angry
- Not as Angry
- Bored
- Indifferent
- Sad
It could be noted.
If you actually commit voting fraud? “Nothing to see here….Move along.”
If you demonstrate how easily it can be done? “Heretic! Get a stake and pile up the brush!”
And they wonder why we are beginning to figure that the “rule of law” is not a rule we need to follow? Selective enforcement and suchlike are beginning to be noticed. It’s a very short step from where we are at to the point where the Police are nothing but another Organized Crime gang.
And most folks won’t like the way the world works when that comes about.
Exactly. Militarize the police and police the military. The real enemies are the so-called citizens.
Dan, my man!
You have to excuse me, because I’m about 3 fingers into my Maker’s Mark, but you are starting to sound a lot like the crazed threepers that I hang around elsewhere with.
How does Jeff G. put it?
“Outlaw!”
I fear that the day is coming when we will have to decide.
“And a voice Valedictory said
Who is for Victory,
Who is for Liberty,
And who goes home?”
Keep in mind that anything the left says steps into the memory hole the very instant that it is politically inconvenient for whatever was said to be rememebered.
In the present case, all of their dismissals of the potential for voter fraud will be utterly forgotten for as long as it takes to get O’Keefe into jail. They will behave as if they never said that voter fraud was not a major problem.