How do you know they're American citizens? How do you know where they live?

An editorial by Greg Abbott, the Attorney General for Texas?

Check his math:

PolitiFact | Abbott touts 50 election fraud convictions; we subtract 29

He claims 50 convictions since 2002. He's spent millions of dollars pursuing this. He formed a special unit just to combat voter fraud.

Reality: 26 convictions, miscellaneous other results.

Evidence of fraud abounds in Texas, all right.

Here are some non-anecdotal reasons why it's hard to get. Texas is a big state under budget constraints. Some counties are so sparsely populated that it's not cost effective to have a driver's license office in the county so they closed them, so you have to travel to another county. Since you don't have a current driver's license, that means someone has to drive you. That's a round trip for two, on a work day, of a few hundred miles in order to get an ID recognized by the new state law.

You could argue that another form of legal photo ID should suffice, as was done in the TX legislature, but they specifically EXCLUDED student ID's from Texas universities and tribal IDs from Native American tribes (recognized by DHS to board airplanes, though) when they ADDED the Texas Concealed Handgun License as a valid form of ID for voting.

The current law requires you to show your voter card - which is mailed to your home of record - or, if you don't have that, THEN you show a photo ID and the they match you against the rolls.

So people who were registered, had voted in the past, and who have current valid photo IDs valid for nearly every purpose except voting now need to get a new ID.

Or they can simply claim a religious belief in not having your picture taken and vote anyway without a photo ID.

I think it's a great law and a wonderful use of the millions of dollars spent on drafting, defending, advertising the new rules, and disrupting the electoral schedule just to possibly reduce the likelihood of one person voting in place of her dead mother - in which case she probably looked like her mom's photo anyway.

It's not like they could have looked at absentee ballot fraud, or something. Gotta spot impersonation at the polls!

Are you kidding me?

Documents his allegations?!? Did you look at them objectively? Did you seek out possible alternative explanations for what he cites as facts or evidence? Just because someone says "according to..." it's not documentation. This about as one-sided a hack job as can possibly exist.

It's comical. ACORN! ACORN! ACORN! I think there was bet to see how many times he could put that in the piece.

Here's the summary: There's a liberal/progressive/socialistic/KGB-like nationwide plot! In order to fight back you need to join our decent, freedom-loving, American nationwide plot, err, I mean, group!

Don't listen to the left-wing echo chamber - they lie! Sign up for fair, accurate and unbiased reporting (see, it says that in the title, so it must true) from our conservative, freedom-loving websites from the clarion of truth!

This is the lead paragraph from a site that touts (and I'm not kidding) "fairness, balance and accuracy" in its reporting. Man, I'd hate to see a biased report from these guys.

Why not just ask people if they're qualified instead of all of this rigamarole. I mean, nobody would lie and try to conceal anything, would they?

If you become a Republican, you can vote for Willard who everybody knows will be the new Conservative salvation for America. If you have any doubts, you can just ask him..........he'll tell you.

Well, we can have them show some ID...

BS Alert.......BS Alert.....

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I do not think you will hear much of the "C" word coming from the Romney camp from now on.


What's with all this "Willard" crap? Its like someone turned a switch and, right on cue, a whole bunch of guys start calling him Willard--like talking points or something.

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Sorry, but the name Willard reminds me of an old movie about a nest of vicious rodents, and I don't mean the Palins...

What day is it?


I like "Willard". It's got a nice ring to it. Much better than "Mitt".

No, nobody would lie. Everybody tells the truth.

YAK...YAK...YAK.....than you for proving and supporting my point, like the original OP said, there was only one case of voter fraud in Tx and they said it hadn't been adjucated yet......so I must humbly thank you for supporting my point.
I love you man....

Motorcoach for sale or rent.
For a modicum of fifty cents.
No photo-id, not citizenship,
King of the Frauds!"

(as I go off on Dudesky's motor coach)

To start with they're not conspiracy theories.
And secondly.
Your presidential elections affect the whole world.
Thirdly, compulsory voting should be introduced.

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