The Newsroom Voter Fraud

Cooper is a 96 year old resident of Chattanooga Tennessee and has been voting for the last 75 years this year she's been told she can't a new law in Tennessee requires residents to show a government-issued photo ID in order to vote Dorothy Cooper doesn't have a driver's license because Dorothy Cooper doesn't have a car Dorothy Cooper doesn't have a passport a vacation abroad was never in her future Tennessee isn't alone at this moment 33 states have proposed or already adopted the same voter ID laws that have disqualified Dorothy Cooper from the one fundamental thing that we all do as Americans it's estimated that 11% or roughly 20 million people don't have government-issued voter IDs and will be disenfranchised this November why to crack down on the terrible problem of voter fraud well fun Governor Rick Perry of Texas it was about to enter the presidential primary race is serious about cracking down on the problem making sure that there's not fraud making sure that someone's not manipulating that process makes all the sense in the world to me to me too because voter fraud is such a huge problem that during a five-year period under the Bush administration 196 million votes were cast the number of cases of voter fraud reached 86 not 86,000 86 here's what that number looks like as a percentage of votes cast for one hundred thousandth of a percent this would be called a solution without a problem but it's not it's just a solution to a different problem Republicans have a hard time getting certain people to vote for them so life would be a lot easier at certain people just weren't allowed to vote at all I'm ashamed to say that 32 of the 33 voter ID laws were proposed by Republican legislators and passed by republican-controlled state houses and signed into law by Republican governors I am NOT however ashamed to say that I am a Republican and that brings us to tonight's second story

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Published: Mon Aug 27 2012