{"id":26113,"date":"2012-02-06T15:28:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T22:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/look-voter-fraud.html"},"modified":"2013-05-01T07:46:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T13:46:47","slug":"look-voter-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/look-voter-fraud.html","title":{"rendered":"Look! Voter fraud!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, it&#39;s a GOP state official doing it.  And convicted of it.<\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;Besides the obvious embarrassment of the state official who is in charge of elections being indicted on charges of voter registration fraud, it&#39;s just perfect that this happened in Indiana, because Indiana paved the way for the voter suppression laws we&#39;re seeing all over the country&#8230;. Indiana has one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the country, and that didn&#39;t stop their top elections official from registering and voting in the wrong place. That&#39;s because voter ID laws target the imaginary problem of voter impersonation fraud, while doing next to nothing to address the fraud that actually occurs.&quot;<\/i>  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100419209457758501564'>donald mclaughlin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fm.static.newsvine.com%2Fservista%2Fimagesizer%3Ffile%3Dsteve-benenFF13418C-5520-1DF4-985E-F86454FE487C.jpg%26width%3Dauth' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/02\/06\/10332999-actual-voter-fraud'>The Maddow Blog &#8211; Actual voter fraud<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRepublican policymakers, at the federal and state level, are often desperate to find real-world, high-profile examples of voter fraud. The good news for the GOP is that a legitimate example has come t&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, it&#39;s a GOP state official doing it. And convicted of it. &quot;Besides the obvious embarrassment of the state official who is in charge of elections being indicted on charges of voter registration fraud, it&#39;s just perfect that this happened in Indiana, because Indiana paved the way for the voter suppression laws we&#39;re seeing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/look-voter-fraud.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Look! Voter fraud!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9,347],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","category-voting-rights","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46776,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/06\/true-the-vote-discovers-the-extent-of-voter-fraud-in-the-us.html","url_meta":{"origin":26113,"position":0},"title":"True the Vote discovers the extent of voter fraud in the US!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Nov-14 5:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"And ... that it's not very extensive. At all.\"True the Vote,\" a \"voter integrity:\" group, provided an app for folk to report on election day voter fraud they observed. What they got back were ... well, more cases of restrictive voter ID laws keeping people from voting than anything else.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41961,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/11\/people-pretending-to-vote-as-someone-they-are.html","url_meta":{"origin":26113,"position":1},"title":"People pretending to vote as someone they are","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-May-14 11:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"simply doesn't happenSo here's a guy who campaigned on voter fraud, who pushed for strict voter ID laws, and who, as Secretary of State of Iowa spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to investigate \"voter fraud\" in the 2012 election to prove his claim. \u00a0What did he find?He found a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27956,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/scott-walker-puts-his-thumb-on-the-scales-regarding-voter-fraud.html","url_meta":{"origin":26113,"position":2},"title":"Scott Walker puts his thumb on the scales regarding voter fraud","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-May-12 3:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, Scott, voter fraud doesn't constitute 1-3% of all votes. Really. If you have something that says so, please do trot it out, because otherwise I call shenanigans.By which I mean, it's a lie to justify voter ID laws, which observably do suppress voting by percentage points (and percentage points\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38908,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/the-dishonesty-of-voter-id-laws.html","url_meta":{"origin":26113,"position":3},"title":"The Dishonesty of Voter ID Laws","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Oct-13 11:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"Which is: No, they aren't designed to curb massive, or even significant voter fraud. \u00a0They are designed to curb massive, or even significant voting from populations that their partisan\u00a0supporters would rather not\u00a0vote (as further indicated by how they get passed alongside bills to restrict early voting, etc.).Reshared post from +Shannon\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39347,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/23\/on-womens-names-and-voter-fraud.html","url_meta":{"origin":26113,"position":4},"title":"On Women&#39;s Names and Voter Fraud","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Oct-13 11:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, she looks pretty darned suspicious. \u00a0The key was discovering that her drivers license shows her maiden name as the middle name (as, apparently, Texas law required back when she got married in 1964), but her voter registration shows her born middle name as the middle name. According to Texas'\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24284,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/06\/im-sure-the-gop-will-be-over-new-election-laws-over-this.html","url_meta":{"origin":26113,"position":5},"title":"I&#39;m sure the GOP will be over new election laws over this","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Dec-11 7:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"After all, they've spent a huge amount of time chasing a bunch of mythical \"fraudulent voters\" by adding all sorts of voter ID laws, restricting voter registration programs, reducing voting periods, etc.So now that we have a real, honest-to-gosh case of election fraud, actually convicted in court, what sort of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33484,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26113\/revisions\/33484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}