The Winkest Link

By Wink

GOP legislators in 40 states have introduced bills to make it harder to vote. The stated objective is to stop ‘voter fraud.’ Many of these bills have already passed.

Why are Republicans doing this? Why not Democrats?

Isn’t voter fraud bad? Don’t Dems think voter fraud would be bad?

Yeah, they would think it was bad, if it existed anywhere. It does not. I will demonstrate that in our next column, but today let us discuss the logic behind making it harder to vote…

Conservative think-tanks (henceforth “CTT”) have made a horrible discovery: The more people who show up at the polls, the greater tendency for people to vote for the Democrat on the ballot. – Ouch.

The discovery that bigger turnouts favor Dems might persuade the GOP to make some adjustments to their programs. After all, they always tell us they are only ‘doing the will of the people,’

The will of the greatest number of people, apparently, goes against many of the things the GOP stands for.

Republicans could probably win back a majority by simply moderating the more extreme of their stances.

But, what if ‘the will of the people’ is only a GOP slogan? What if their only real objective is to help the wealthy? Then what?

Out the window goes ‘the will of the people.’

Remember, too many voters mean an advantage for Democrats.

Conservative think tanks (CTT’s) decided the only way to fight this is to reduce the total number of voters. Better than THAT would be to specifically reduce the number who tend to vote for Democrats.

I am guessing there was a HUGE contest at the CTT’s: How-how-how can we reduce the number of voters?

And the winning idea was … VOTER FRAUD!

The CTT then needed to get the message out that one of the biggest problems in America today is voter fraud.

Step one, as always, is to give marching orders to all the GOP voice-boxes… Rush, Beck and FOX. The new message: Fraud, fraud, fraud!

Nobody delivers like Rush, Beck & Fox. Fraud, fraud, fraud!

Beat that drum every day until people believe it…

“Gosh, there must be widespread voter fraud. I keep hearing it over and over.”

The same message is passed to Republican legislators in every state. “Wait until the mouthpieces have drilled the ‘fraud’ idea into the brains of their fans, then introduce bills to limit who can vote.”

Message received. Now go pass some legislation.

Here is a typical legislative example: You must have a photo ID, but not just ANY photo ID, it must be a state-issued ID. A student ID, even a state-issued student ID, is NOT acceptable.

Why would a student ID not be acceptable? Because students tend to vote for Democrats. Can’t have that.

The Republican governor of South Carolina (another state with new restrictions) downplayed the seriousness of the change, saying if anyone needs a photo id she would be willing drive them to get it.

She better hope gas process drop soon. There are 178,000 voters in SC without photo ID’s.

Among others, the elderly poor often don’t have a driver’s license because they no longer drive, or can’t afford a car anyway. Thus, no photo ID.

And so it is that 178,000 people who were previously eligible will no longer be able to vote in South Carolina. This is typical, and delights Republicans/CTT’s.

Limit blacks, limit students, even limit older voters who might want to keep getting their social security checks.

This is brilliant and sinister at the same time. It smells of the Karl Rove playbook.

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We are a democracy. A basic American tenet is: The more people that vote, the more democratic we are. Democracy. Freedom.

Republicans always declare they are the party of super-patriots. This is not patriotic. This is un-American.

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In our next column we will talk about HOW MUCH voter fraud has been discovered. Please tune in.

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