High Court Slaps Down GOP Voting Case

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If you don't already know, there's something you need to learn about claims of "voter fraud." The term means different things to different people. To many, it means anything used to monkey around with actual votes and actual voters. That's a good definition, but it isn't the primary one in today's politics.

"Voter fraud" today is usually applied to Democrats and groups like ACORN, at least when it is used by Republicans. They claim that Democrats try to load up the voter rosters with illegal aliens, fictional people, and dead people. Actual confirmed cases of this nature are as rare as Sarah Palin's concise sentences, but right-wingers (particularly on radio and blogs) rail about them endlessly.

What really happens is, people paid to gather voter registrations are sometimes dishonest and/or lazy. They put down phony names, or urge others to do so. This is a proven fact, and is what you're seeing on the news when "voter fraud" is discussed. What has not been shown to be true, is that any of this actually leads to fraudulent votes. Mickey Mouse has so far not shown up at the polls, at tried to pull the lever (or punch the chad, whatever).

Ultimately, the right is trying to muddy the waters, to try and pin "voter fraud" on Democrats only. The truth is, election rigging is the province of Republicans, with voter purges and caging lists. Absentee and provincial ballots go uncounted, people who have changed their address (or have been foreclosed upon) are barred from voting. Democrats, if guilty of anything, are guilty of trying to get more people to vote. Republicans are very clearly trying to prevent more people from voting. And the evidence shows that Republicans stop far more eligible voters from voting than Democrats cause ineligible voters to vote. Got that?

So, stories like this one warm my heart. The courts actually doing the right thing? Have we actually started to turn the corner?

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High court rejects GOP bid in Ohio voting dispute

The Supreme Court is siding with Ohio's top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations.

The justices on Friday overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility. . .

Read more at: Breitbart