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Galasso is spouting ignorance. Let's look at the facts.

The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU has conducted exhaustive studies on voter fraud. They have not found one proven case. Galasso needs to check out the website and get the report for himself. However, .the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU 20 million eligible voters could be disenfranchised under the current ID laws. The Bush Administration has touted the elections of 2005 as proof of progress in Iraq. Yet these elections did not require photo ID???s. Bush went the the United Nations today touting America???s commitment to democracy, yet Voting While Black and/or Voting While Latino remains a federal crime in many states, including John McCain???s Arizona. My thanks to Alder for telling us the truth. Before we enlist the UN to promote democracy else where, we need to ask the UN to supervise our elections, to ensure that we have free elections in this country.

Democrats are masters at voter fraud - dead people vote as well as people who have left the state and non-citizens (illegals). In many small towns where all the citizens know each other this isn't an issue. But in larger metropolitan areas where the electoral vote really has weight, there should be some scrutiny. Look at the Kennedy/Nixon race in 1960 when Chicago "helped" at the ballot boxes. As close as the Presidential elections continue to be - what's wrong with asking someone to produce an ID? ID's are available at any DMV. It's a civic duty to be part of the solution to the problem instead of showing up at the polls as the problem. All of this conspiracy garbage about the Republicans targeting African Americans is ridiculous. Jessie Jackson was on his soapbox during the "hanging chad" election claiming that Florida Police were setting up roadblocks to prevent AA's from going to the polls. He disappeared as usual when the story fell apart and his preposterous lie was exposed. I think Jonathan Alter's brain has gone soft. Columns like this - with no real proof - just speculation - that one Party is denying a segment of the population access to vote adds to the rancor and dysfunction of the entire process.

The GOP is targetting more than African American voters. The McCain campaign has been sending absentee voter applications with the WRONG return address to Democrats and Independent voters who have contributed to Obama and who live or once lived in swing states. Robert Kennedy Jr. has said that he has co-authored an article about how the voting legislation passed after the 2000 debacle in Florida is being used to eliminate legitimate voters from the electoral rolls. Unfortunately, it won't be published in Rolling Stone magazine until mid-October. Anyone who believes in the integrity of the American electoral process should think again. Books by Greg Palast and Richard Hayes Phillips should be on everyone's reading list.

One major and consistent problem with democracy is that the votes of the uninformed count for as much as those of the knowledgeable. Studies show that the average uneducated voter consistently adopts incorrect and demonstrably bad economic policy positions (against free trade, for farm subsidies, etc.). Perhaps throwing a couple extra hurdles in the way, then, is not such a bad thing. The resulting electorate will not necessarily be the best informed voters, but they may act as a reasonable proxy based on their demonstrated interest. This ID policy, while perhaps an inconvenience, is in no way a denial of someone's right to vote any more than the inconvenience of filling out an absentee ballot is.

Republicans love tp pretend it is about one vote guarentee,that is bull,in Mich. they are trying to get a forclosure list at polls to stop people that have foreclosure from voteing.Republicans have a long history of interferring and stoping and throwing out votes that are legal,but not how they wanted them to vote.Republicans have a LONG history trying to take away the Basic Right an American has,which is to vote!

Wow, I expected to see this type venom at huffington post or politico, but I am shocked that people feel compelled to drop the f-bomb???on Newsweek. Regardless of your political affiliation, name-calling and personal insults always come across as petty.

There are two good points here that should be considered: 1) Democrats have been engaged in quite a bit of voter fraud 2) the bill in Indiana may have been in response to illegal immigrant registration.

To the first point, democrats just need to own up to the short comings of what we hope are just a few radical organizers and insiders. No matter how much better you think your candidate is, everyone gets one vote, period. That said, the new Indiana law does nothing to address this problem because what was happening was already illegal. I think you can make an argument that requiring an ID would make it harder for people to commit voter fraud at the booth, but that doesn???t seem to be where the major voter fraud has been. So how does this law address the specific instances of voter fraud that have occurred? And how does it help enforce the laws that were already in place that made the kind of fraud happening illegal?

To the second point, if illegal immigrants are getting driver???s licenses and registering to vote and then voting???how does a law that requires you to have a photo ID stop them from voting? Wouldn???t it make more sense to revamp how IDs are issued?

So here???s the problem: you have voter fraud and you have illegal immigrants voting, but this law doesn???t really address either of those issues. And it places a disproportionate burden on poor and African-american citizens. So why would you enact a law that doesn???t really solve the problem you claim it addresses and negatively affects the citizenry? And why do you get more republicans pushing these laws that have a much greater impact on democratic voters? Why not simply pledge to provide better training and more man power at the polls? Or put together a totally new system that would require all citizens to head to the DMV, not just the poorer ones?

Also, please check out www.factcheck.org because there is a ton of misinformation on this page, from the left and the right.

When something is inaccurate, state why and link to a source for evidence -- as Adler has. If you just make blanket dismissals like Jimbo, you are a partisan hack.

John McCain knew that Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac would collapse, and thereby unjustly burden the American public!

In 2005, Senator John McCain cosponsored the Federal Housing Enterprise Reform Act to regulate the powers and procedures of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac.

These 2 massive federal finance agencies had been operating without controls in a blatant irresponsible manner, and had been found guilty in court of falsifying financial records and statements in order to provide supposed justification for bonuses to be given to their higher echelon administrators.

These 2 organizations had been coerced by Democrats, who because of political opportunism, wanted them to grant mortgages to individuals who would be unable to make their required monthly payments. That would be in accordance with the irresponsible Democrat belief that everyone should be entitled to have their own home, irrespective of their actual ability to afford that luxury.

Both of these mortgage lending institutions have contributed massive financial sums to support the political aspirations of Chris Dodd and Barack Obama.

Senator John McCain realized 3 years ago that fraudulent transactions were rampant within these 2 enterprises, and that they would soon collapse if remedial action was not undertaken.

Their bankruptcy would result in the American taxpayers having to go into debt to resurrect or ???bail-out??? these fraudulent Congress protected entities.

As was to be expected, this proposal to institute meaningful financial reform measures was obstructed by the Democrats in the Senate, and the proposal failed to be adopted.

This year, due to the Democrat furor over the collapse of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac, the American taxpayers are burdened by having to pay a minimum of 450 billion dollars to ???bail out??? these 2 recklessly managed lending companies.

John McCain exposed and opposed the corrupt lending practices of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac.
Barack Obama ???milked the system??? and profited by obstructing reform of their corrupt lending practices.

Democrats have demonstrated that they can wreck the mortgage industry.

Are you willing to vote them into office, and give them a blank check to mismanage the American economy, security, and health care?

Comment to "Davole" on 9/16/08 @ 7:38 p.m.: Perhaps what you've replied to the "Lady Professor's" comment would be true in "your" world, but what you're saying is not true elsewhere...... although we would love to believe it is just that "black and white", it's not!

The Obama Campaign Sinks to a New Low in Decency

The Obama campaign, as it continues to flounder and sink in the polls, has descended to a new low, even for itself.

Recently it has launched a new TV ad in which a mocking narrator alleges that John McCain is so out of touch with the current generation because of his inability to use a computer.

The narrator does not admit that the reason John McCain doesn???t use a computer is because 5 and a half years of torture as a POW in the Vietnam war cause him to experience severe pain by attempting to do many of the day to day menial tasks which most of the American population take for granted.

Obviously the Obama campaign does not demonstrate any appreciation and respect for the veteran and current members of the US military!

The obamabot ship is sinking, and the crew are sure grasping at straws in their pitiful attempt to deceive the voting public. Yes, Obama approved that deceitful ad - it is consistent with his decrepit morally corrupt standards.

Obviously that empty suit has no heart, courage, sincerity, honour, and respect!

Do you expect a presidential candidate to be truthful in striving to win the election?
If so, Obama just doesn???t ???measure up??? in that consideration!

Obama is an unscrupulous do-anything community agitator who has revealed his true previously hidden self!

On November 4, you, the legal American voting public, have the opportunity and ability to cast Obama back to that slag heap of Chicago manipulators who permeate the slum areas of that city.

THIS ARTICLE IS DISGUSTING!!! Since the primaries, I've read article after article of Alter DROOLING over Sen. Obama or sneering at the opposing side. Objectivity means nothing to this sold out (or bought out, who knows the depth of David Axelrod's extremely questionable connections) jounalist. Everything in this article that serves as any form of evidence, is merely speculation! Everytime Sen. Obama is hurting in the polls, Jonathan Alter suspiciously produces an article that either 1) strongly supports Obama, 2) strongly criticizes his opponent, or 3) riles up some controversy that makes the opposing side seem racist, crooked or evil. Besides, if Alter truly wants to question obstruction to the democratic process, he should do his own research into Barak Obama's early political life and how he got elected the first time!

BREAKING NEWS ............Obama taps Barbra Streisand

The only way that Republicans could sneak into the White House for the past two election cycles was to steal the Presidential election. America has certainly suffered for it. If you steal an election, the least you could have done was to govern in a manner that would benefit all of the people., not just corporations and the wealthy. The Republicans might just have to resort to stealing this election too. Remember, if it's not close, they can't steal it.