The Chicago Way of voting

Attorney general Eric Holder Wednesday called for an end to state laws requiring voters to show identification at polling stations.

Voter identification laws are constitutional and necessary to prevent fraud at the ballot box. Facing an election challenge next year, this administration has chosen to target efforts by the states to protect the democratic process.

The increased pressure on Holder came on the same day that 22 House Republicans proposed a vote of no confidence in him for his handling of the Fast and Furious gunrunning scheme.

First, with the Fast and Furious gunrunning operation, then with the laundering of U.S taxpayers money to Mexican cartels and finally now an attempt to circumvent the states’ rights to promote secure elections, Attorney General Holder has shown that he is completely out of touch with the American people.

Republicans have been increasingly concerned that the administration wants to loosen voter identification laws in states with significant numbers of immigrants, poor and black voters to help Barack Obama win among traditionally-Democratic leaning minorities in the 2012 election.


The attorney general said he was concerned about measures that tended “to restrict in ways that are subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, the ability of the American people to cast their ballots.” He said protecting access to the voting process “must be viewed not only as a legal issue but as a moral imperative.”

“Georgia’s law has been in place for five years,” added von Spakovsky, a Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration. “Not only did the turnout for African Americans not go down, it went up.”

One wonders why the attorney general refused to prosecute the Black Panthers who stood at the entrance of the polling place in downtown Philadelphia while brandishing clubs.   Was this not subtle enough?
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