Thursday, June 11, 2015

Who is the one who is being disenfanchised?

Elizabeth Price Foley nails it at Instapundit. She writes,
Voter anti-fraud laws aren’t about “disenfranchising” anyone. They’re about ensuring the integrity of our constitutional republic, by implementing commonsense measures to restrict voting to those who are eligible to vote. Democrats like Clinton, by contrast, have every incentive to loosen anti-fraud measures, so that ineligible voters–mostly convicted felons, students (who want to vote outside their state of legal residency) and illegal immigrants–can vote, as Democrats know that these ineligibles are highly likely to vote for Democrats.

Plus, invoking the “disenfranchisement” rhetoric–with an added dose of “Jim Crow” references for good measure–are designed to gin up black and other minority turnout in a 2016 presidential election that will not have the same minority pull as when Obama was on the ballot.
Read more here.

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