The blog title you just read was lifted from prolific conservative writer/commentator James Bovard’s just-published article at his own website.
Here is how it begins:
Barely 30 days before the 2024 election, the Justice Department sued the state of Virginia to prohibit its removal of the names of noncitizens from voting rolls. Gov. Glenn Youngkin was enforcing a 2006 Virginia law, but the Biden administration portrayed that action as an attack on “the cornerstone of our democracy.” Youngkin denounced the federal lawsuit as “a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections” in Virginia.
The Virginia lawsuit is simply the latest in Democrats’ long war against honest voting, which began with the Clinton administration’s Motor Voter Act. That 1993 law mandated voter registration in every welfare and food-stamp office in the nation. Brent Thompson, executive director of the Fair Government Foundation, observed in 1996, “The Motor Voter law did away with a panoply of anti-fraud mechanisms long relied on by the states to police and deter fraudulent voting.”
In 2015, the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton condemned voter identification requirements as part of a “sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people and young people.” A Washington Post headline aptly summarized her message: “Hillary Clinton Declares War on Voter ID.” Verifying identification was unnecessary because, as long as enough ballots showed up with a check by Hillary’s name, she would be irrevocably entitled to all the power she could seize in the following four years.
Mr. Bovard goes on to remind us, chapter and verse of other Democrat attempts to diminish, if not eliminate, safeguards against illegal voting – which, as regular readers know, I have also been writing about for years. I strongly urge you to use the link I’ve provided above and read every word.
Then keep your fingers crossed that as much of the illegal-voting-made-easier opportunities as possible are minimized on election day.
What a sad commentary this is on where we are as a country…and where Democrats are as a political party.
