I am actually quite surprised, not because a Democratic congressman wishes to ban photo ID requirements for voting, but because it hasn’t happened sooner. With over 12 million illegals in the United States, most if not all of whom would likely vote Democrat if given access to a ballot box, this is a no brainer of an issue for the Democratic party. The question is though, is this what is best for America, or is it only what is best for Democrats?

“While photo IDs seem harmless, they are in fact the modern day poll tax,” Ellison, D-Minn., said in a statement.

This has been the Democrats war cry for the repeal of all voter ID laws for the last few years. Court after court has upheld State mandates which require photo identification, rejecting the idea that they constitute a poll tax, meanwhile the Democrats continue to argue this point. While arguing about ‘poll taxes’, Democrats with the aide of the mainstream media continue to ignore the larger, more frightening issue, and that is voter fraud. Democrats will tell you that the idea of voter fraud is a “Republican scare tactic”, and no such threat exists. I beg to differ:
The Acorn Indictments

Acorn and its affiliates have pulled some real stunts in recent years. In Ohio in 2004, a worker for one affiliate was given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. During a Congressional hearing in Ohio in the aftermath of the 2004 election, officials from several counties in the state explained Acorn’s practice of dumping thousands of registration forms in their lap on the submission deadline, even though the forms had been collected months earlier.

“You have to wonder what’s the point of that, if not to overwhelm the system and get phony registrations on the voter rolls,” says Thor Hearne of the American Center for Voting Rights, who also testified at the hearing. “These were Democratic officials saying that they felt their election system in Ohio was under assault by these kinds of efforts to game the system.”

Michelle Malkin has more:

The defendants were all temporary employees of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, when they allegedly filled out and submitted more than 1,800 fictitious voter-registration cards during a 2006 registration drive in King and Pierce counties.

King County election workers brought the fraud to the attention of prosecutors last October, after noticing that signatures on many registration forms looked like they had been written by the same person.

The truth is, every election year there are stories of attempted voter fraud, many of which are ignored by the mainstream media. Banning photo ID requirements would only enhance the amount of attempted voter ID fraud which occurs, while at the same time limiting the authorities chances of catching it before the vote is counted.

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