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September 19, 2011
Poll Shows Strong Support For Voter ID Among Hispanic Voters In Key States
Topics: Political News and commentariesByron York writes today of an extensive new poll of Hispanic voters in the key electoral states of Florida, Colorado, and New Mexico showing that despite the intense opposition to photo I.D. laws on the part of the Justice Department, the Democratic party, and the civil rights establishment, among Hispanic voters at least, there is strong support for such laws. This flies in the face of the full-scale assault on state voter identification laws by the Obama Justice Department and Democrats on Capitol Hill in recent months, during which they've accused Republicans of trying to return to the days of Jim Crow, and alleged that the laws, many of which require a photo ID for voting, discriminate against blacks and Hispanics.
As Hans A. von Spakovsky wrote in his recent piece at NRO, photo I.D. is in no way a race card and liberals are loosing that tired old claim.
A number of states have recently passed voter-ID legislation -- among them, Texas, Alabama, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Rhode Island. Two others, Georgia and Indiana, implemented such laws years ago. This trend has the Left hyperventilating. From former president Bill Clinton to NAACP head Benjamin Jealous, irresponsible cries of "Jim Crow" have been uttered in a losing attempt to sell Americans a great lie: that requiring someone to authenticate his or her identity at the polling place by showing a government-issued photo identification is anything like the despicable discrimination that once existed in the South.With the courts against them and the public against them (in addition to the poll of Hispanics York notes today, Rasmussen finds that 75% of voters in general support photo I.D.), and the turnout in actual elections against them, racial polemics and fear-mongering is all liberals have left. And as von Spakovsky goes on to point out in his piece, vitriolic rhetoric serves by liberals serves only to show their desperation, since claims of "suppression" and "intimidation" have been shown over and over again to be completely untrue.Jealous blamed "the worst and most racist elements" in conservative tea-party groups for the voter-ID push. In truth, the vast majority of Americans of all racial and ethnic backgrounds (more than 75 percent in the latest Rasmussen poll) support voter-ID laws. Perhaps that's because Americans have to use a photo ID to obtain a library card, drink a beer, cash a check, board an airplane, buy a train ticket, or check in to a hotel. They understand that requiring voter ID is a commonsense reform that helps protect the security and integrity of our election process. Happily, it's a requirement voters can easily meet.
Once you get past the race-baiting, you will find that opponents of voter ID generally rely on two arguments, equally specious: 1) There is no need for photo ID, because there is no voter fraud in the United States; 2) This is a deliberate effort to suppress the turnout of minority voters, who often don't have photo ID. Liberals keep repeating these false claims despite the fact that they have been disproved both in the courtroom and at the polling place.
Posted by Richard at September 19, 2011 6:14 AM
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