Election Idiocracy

This November there is one swing state whose election fraud will not be a question of “if” or “how much” but “why?”  Yesterday the Supreme Court overturned a federal  appellate court’s decision that had forced Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (democrat) to set up a system to give local officials the names of newly registered voters whose driver’s license numbers or Social Security numbers on their voting forms don’t match records in other government documents.  Now almost 200,000 likely fraudulent voters will never be questioned as they enter the polls in November.

The only thing  more ludicrous and disgusting to the credulity of American elections is the reasoning the justices provided for the decision (which none of them had the courage to sign their name to).  The justices claim their decision has nothing to do with whether Ohio is complying with the Help America Vote Act of 2002 that established requirements for verifying voter eligibility, rather they tossed out the case because they say it appears the law does not allow private entities (the case was brought by the Ohio GOP) to sue to enforce the provision of this particular law.

What happened to government “of by and for” the people?  Where is the justice if private citizens and groups cannot ask that the law be upheld?  Where is the legitimacy when government can simply decide not to uphold the laws that bind it and to knowingly allow likely fraudulent voters to decide the outcome of an election as important as that of the office of the President of the United States.  Honestly, this looks more like tactics used by the henchmen of Russian politicians than American dirty-work.

Brunner does claim she is setting up a verification plan, though it appears her plan does not include the actual enactment and dissemination of this information to the appropriate local officials.  She also dismissed claims about their invalidity as innocent clerical errors.  Some may be, but I doubt that it amounts to more than a handful when almost a third of the new registrations this year are in question.

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