The Motor-Voter Fraud

November 2001 -- The great Florida vote-recount fiasco of 2000 highlighted problems with voting equipment used in the United States. Those problems may be less important, however, than the voting fraud allowed by the "politically correct" voting procedures currently in effect in the United States. Current voting registration procedures allow non-citizens to vote, and current voting sign-in procedures make it nearly impossible to prevent anyone from voting more than once.

The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 -- the "Motor-Voter" law -- requires that people be allowed to register to vote when they apply for a driver's license, when they collect welfare payments, or by mail. No proof of citizenship is required, however, and motor vehicle departments are not equipped to check citizenship status. They must simply trust the applicant. The practical effect is that non-citizens are now essentially allowed to vote in the United States -- a clear violation of the Constitution.

The Motor-Voter law was signed into law by President Clinton, a Democrat, after being approved by every single one of the 57 Democratic Senators (the Republicans voted 37-6 against it). Guess which party enjoys the lion's share of the benefit of voting fraud. That's right! What can be said about a party that is willing to make a travesty of both common sense and the Constitution to promote its own power -- and bank on the ignorance of the American public to get away with it?

The Democratic demagogues got away with their power grab by depicting the Republicans as trying to "disenfrancise" racial minorities and the poor, of course. But the effort involved in registering to vote was minimal even before the Motor-Voter law, and registering was no more difficult for any one group than for any other. If someone is unwilling to endure a slight inconvenience to register to vote, how much effort are they likely to put into educating and informing themselves on the candidates and the issues? And guess which party they are likely to vote for? Right again!

But if voting registration procedures are absurd, voting sign-in procedures are equally ridiculous. Only fourteen states require voters to provide official identification of any kind before they vote. In the other 36 states, anyone can waltz into any precinct voting station, claim to be any registered voter who lives in that precinct, then proceed to vote. And once an anonymous vote is inserted into the ballot box, it cannot be retrieved, of course.

Yes, the Motor-Voter law makes fraudulent voting illegal, but how can anyone be caught doing it if they cannot be asked for official identification? And what is to stop anyone from getting up early on election day and voting fraudently in several precincts? If the real voter votes before the fraud arrives, the fraud can simply leave -- or claim that the earlier voter was the fraud and proceed to vote with a "provisional" ballot (just as the innocent voter could do if preceded by the fraud).

The right to vote is the foundation of democracy, but the Motor-Voter law makes a travesty of it by facilitating voting fraud. It effectively allows non-citizens to vote, and it effectively allows anyone to vote more than once with impunity. The Motor-Voter law was pushed through by Democrats to bypass the Constitution in a pure and simple power grab. Any effort to accurately record and count votes is a sham as long as the Motor-Voter law is in effect.

RussP.us