Freeman: No election fraud buttons in polling places

Meetings for “Election Integrity Watch” are surely open to the public, since this is such an important matter for all concerned.

Presumably those evil immigrants (at least those who are “browner than a manila envelope”) will be somehow infiltrating this group’s tactical organization and finding out where the threat is greatest.

The actual crime being accomplished most often by snowbirds voting in both their northern homes and their southern wintering spots in Florida, Alabama, Texas, Arizona…

Dave has a point. A reason for all those arcane rules we learned about with absentee ballots during the recount is that the only real instances of organized voter fraud I’ve heard of involved absentee ballots, though I suppose we could argue even then that’s election fraud, since charges involved parties suddenly producing a bunch of absentee ballots.

McGrath might want to reconsider appealing. That’s clearly a partisan button since it’s an initiative from one party, even if technically independent, so getting that rule tossed would likely mean allowing candidate buttons too.

I do not think that the First Amendment covers voter intimidation and interfering with the election process.

Why do these people think that their rights supersede everyone else’s at all times?

If anyone sees any instances of suspected voter intimidation, particularly in and around college campuses and low-income neighborhoods where voter-intimidation groups want to scare poor and twentysomething voters into thinking that it’s illegal for them to vote, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE and report it to the non-partisan Election Protection people: http://www.866ourvote.org/

When 75% of Minnesotans support an initiative, as they do Voter ID requirements, it’s not possible that the movement is “partisan.” What party or candidate would a “Please ID me” button promote, EricF?

Let’s have a little precision in our use of the English language, please. Partisan means, promoting a political party or candidate. It doesn’t mean, “supporting causes I’m suspicious of and believe must be funded and promoted by people I disagree with.”

Dagny. Yes, let’s be clear. Where do you get the 75% support for Voter ID? Be precise and clearly cite your sources.

Thank you, Stormer. You beat me to that comment. Sheesh.

Anyone who thinks that Voter ID is a non-partisan issue is not paying attention.

One need look no further than the comments of this article to see the political division.

What’s all the fuss about voter fraud? Rep Betty McCollum says its not a problem in this country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UteJgOzkhVw

There is no voter fraud problem in Minnesota. It’s just more baseless fear-mongering by right wing people who just know there are scary monsters under their bed at night.