Get out the vote

An interesting campaign going on here -- opening up the possibilities for massive voter fraud. From Donna Brazile writing at CNN:

In U.S., right to vote still threatened
Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder delivers a major speech on voting rights at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. The location is significant: In 1965, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, a landmark piece of civil rights legislation that banned the worst forms of racial discrimination in American elections.

Over the past five decades, the VRA and other federal and state election reforms have greatly expanded access to the ballot box. As a testament to their success, the 2008 presidential electorate was the largest and most demographically diverse in the history of the United States. But the protections the VRA affords have not lost their relevance, or their indispensability. In the past year, lawmakers in 40 states have introduced legislation that would make it harder for all eligible Americans to vote -- and harder disproportionately for people of color, young Americans, and our seniors.

Some Southern states, like Florida, South Carolina, and Texas, have not only passed legislation restricting the right to vote, but also have refused to comply with their responsibilities under the VRA. The law requires certain states with histories of voting discrimination to submit any change in election law to the U.S. Department of Justice for "preclearance" before it can be implemented. Because these states for so long flaunted an obstinate refusal to allow African-Americans equal access to the voting booth, the VRA requires they demonstrate that new changes will not have a discriminatory effect.

South Carolina and Texas both passed requirements that voters present restrictive forms of government-issued photo ID at polling places, even though 25% of African-Americans and 19% of Latinos lack the necessary form of ID. After passing their laws, both of these states filed preclearance letters with DOJ, but neither could explain how the new law avoided repeating an abhorrent history of discrimination.

Two thoughts: Ninety five years prior to Lyndon Baines Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act into law, the United States Congress ratified the fifteenth amendment to the US Constitution which states:

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Johnson's VRA is completely redundant. Second -- quoting Ms. Brazile:

even though 25% of African-Americans and 19% of Latinos lack the necessary form of ID

Ms. Brazile -- could you provide a source for this statistic? When I was a teenager, I could not wait to get a drivers license. How about a birth certificate? Ever fly on an airplane? Social Security card? Costco card? Bank account? Even a utility bill mailed to your home address would serve... Being able to vote without providing a valid form of identification would open the floodgates to ballet stuffing and massive fraud. This needs to stop. If the niggers are going to vote Democrat (to paraphrase President Johnson) at least have them be honest votes. Doctor Martin Luther King was a Republican. So was Eldridge Cleaver. The Ku Klux Klan was Democrat. How times have changed...