June 8, 2015
Curtailing Voting Rights vs. Curtailing Vote Fraud
Perhaps to distract attention from her own scandals, Hillary Rodham Clinton charges that Republicans want to curtail young people’s and minorities’ voting rights. The charge that Republicans engage in vote suppression has been in Democrats’ playbook for years. (By regurgitating this hoary claim, Mrs. Clinton lends credence to Marco Rubio’s observation that some pols may be antiquated.)
We need to investigate her assertion that GOP concerns about election fraud are overblown.
Given America’s dependence on elections, it is essential to the nation’s well-being that citizens have confidence in elections’ honesty and integrity. People must be able to assume that candidates and parties declared the winner of an election won honestly. Vote fraud saps people’s trust and confidence in government itself.
Sadly, the U.S. has a long history of vote fraud.
Unless efforts to thwart fraudulent voting are...(Read Full Article)