Why are people trying to prove voter fraud by committing voter fraud. Isn't that like proving murders are common by trying to kill somebody? Can't you just find ACTUAL occurances of voter fraud that don't involve yourself?
My favorite case of political stupidity is the fact that the Indiana Secretary of State, who is in charge of electoral law, failed to register at his current address because then he would be ineligible to retain his city council seat while he ran for Secretary of State. He won the job of elections chief, but then lost it with his felony conviction:
Read the rest of the Salon article, with these folks who got punished much more harshly than this crooked Hoosier. The difference is criminal.So long as you’re a Republican, you won’t spend any time in jail for voter fraud. And, if you’re Charlie White, Indiana’s lucky, now-former Republican secretary of state who received just one year of home detention for all of those crimes, you’ll likely be “elated,” just as White was after his sentencing hearing last week.Less happy are those legal voters who have been kept from voting at all under the laws that White supported — and then violated — during his run to become secretary of state in 2010.White received one year of home detention — one year for each of his six convictions, to be served concurrently — plus a $1,000 fine and some community service. He was found guilty of, among other things, having lied about his home address, registering to vote from that address, receiving a salary from an elected position as a town council member from that address, and then having voted from it while winning the position of secretary of state. While White, as per Indiana law, is unable to serve in office as a convicted felon, over all he got off easy.White’s conviction and permissive sentencing illuminate the charade of “voter fraud” as hyped by the Republican Party and Fox News. Compare White’s actions to Kimberly Prude ofWisconsin or Usman Ali of Florida who each committed far less egregious violations of voting laws, yet received far harsher punishment.Prude and Ali fell victim to the George W. Bush U.S. Dept. of Justice, which was funneling unprecedented resources intoferreting out alleged cases of “voter fraud” – or anything that even looked like it — in order to lay the groundwork for polling place photo ID restriction laws around the country. Their prosecution for crimes that looked like “voter fraud” helped create a record that could be used to justify restrictive identification requirements on voters at the polling place, very much like the one first passed in White’s Indiana in 2008.
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