The forces which seek to enable vote fraud have been pressing several dubious contentions in order to protect their hold on power. In addition to the questionable notion that it benefits democracy to herd people who don’t care much about politics into voting booths to casually exercise uninformed choices, they claim that vote fraud barely exists. This flies in the face of human nature and human experience, but nonetheless we see people from the left (always the left) claiming that even though it is easy and that the stakes are high, nobody would really take advantage of the opportunity to sway elections with fraudulent voters. In this make-believe world, unless voting is made available as a casual, whim-of-the-moment opportunity, turnout will fall, and voters will be unable to exercise their most basic right. And this burden somehow will fall more heavily on blacks, who are deemed less capable than other citizens of obtaining official identification, if required at the...(Read Full Post)