Over at SeacoastOnline (online version of the Portsmouth Herald), ‘Grok friend Jeff Chidester (host of NH Perspectives) has a column that touches on Voter Fraud. I thought it interesting to repost the relevant parts (emphasis mine):
…My columns on Obamacare and New Hampshire’s domicile voting provision clearly provoked many of you, which was my intent. But it was the negative responses that I found most interesting as they illustrate what I refer to as digressive logic; starting from one point and continually retreating as “your facts” are disproven.
…Voter fraud. In my July 28 article (http://bit.ly/13oj0qd), I pointed out a real issue with New Hampshire’s domicile voting provision. Some commenters claimed I was being a hypocrite, even though I was calling out both major parties, and anyone who would violate our voting laws. Some went so far as to accuse members of the Free State movement of voter fraud, and asked why I didn’t call them out. I didn’t because there is nothing to call them out for. Free Staters are invested in New Hampshire, and even though some may not like Free Staters’ politics or disagree with their methods, they actually do live in New Hampshire. They moved here, bought homes, started businesses, pay taxes and fees, spend money in their communities, register their vehicles in New Hampshire and obtain state driver’s licenses. They are New Hampshire citizens. To compare Free Staters to those who unashamedly circumvent our election laws for their own reasons, while not truly being invested in New Hampshire, is ridiculous.
Maybe voter fraud is not an epidemic, but that is not the point. Winning and losing an election can come down to a handful of votes, which means every vote must be authentic. One ballot cast dishonestly means a vote was stolen from someone else, maybe you. Here is how the neoprogressive argument goes regarding voter fraud:
1. There is no voter fraud and it is a figment of the “fill-in the banks” imagination (http://bit.ly/11Ueqob, http://bit.ly/QpYrtv,).
2. Once confronted with evidence of the thousands of reported cases (just a few here: http://bit.ly/18gLt6p, http://bit.ly/19xl1Zu, http://fxn.ws/1amEXwB, http://bit.ly/13q7RK0), they say “it is only a handful.”
3. Once they are shown it is more than a handful, they insist it is still “rare” and “overblown” (http://bit.ly/16Ewd61, http://cbsn.ws/xB1xuN, http://herit.ag/16rJr5D).
4. The debate quickly digresses to the left redefining what constitutes voter fraud (http://bit.ly/YOqEv1), screaming voter suppression/racism (http://bit.ly/16aVgZQ, http://bit.ly/MZYeHT, http://bit.ly/M3XU7o), claim laws will do very little to curve voter fraud (http://bit.ly/zlNWm9, http://bit.ly/18RemZx, http://yhoo.it/QzD88k, http://bit.ly/13qa1JN, http://bit.ly/hEGG39) or that updated voting integrity laws do not have widespread support (http://exm.nr/13B1a3e, http://politi.co/HU3tur).
Voting fraud does exist, and many on the left would like people to believe laws meant to help ensure the integrity of our electoral process are nothing more than efforts to disenfranchise voters. That is blatantly false, which is why we constantly see so many on the left using digressive logic in an effort to defend the indefensible. The lack of intellectual curiosity results in merely regurgitating ideological talking points, but it’s not too late to work on your critical thinking skills.
Jeff nails the current effort by the Left to assume the mantle of Houdini and to get the general public to look over there while they pull the logic rug out from underneath with “to the left redefining what constitutes voter fraud“. The Left is ALWAYS trying to redefine the language out from underneath us for by doing to they can change the logic they use to come close to something that normal people may think a slow “well……ok” – and then they have you.
Take for instance (and to go off topic), the abortion issue. For example, to those of us of faith, “sacred ground” or “hallowed ground” has a religious intent and a place that can be thought of being set aside for purposes other for the petty or normal details of life – a time to be still, calm, and to try to acquire a state of reverence. To a Leftist? I have a hard time with both Nancy Pelosi or Wendy Davis declaring that abortion as “sacred ground” so as to create an equivalence of one to the other. Sorry, but my visualization of that second definition, as opposed to that of the first with implications of the Holiness of God, is that of a field strewn with the remains of unborn babies.
The post that Jeff points to is exactly what the Left is doing – redefining the scope of what voter fraud IS to something so much less and to break up the chain of the voting process (e.g., registration, voting, counting) so as to define voter fraud out of existence such that each of the small pieces can still, by their measure, exist without the whole (e.g., Voter Fraud).
As we are wont to say here at the ‘Grok, GRTWT (Go Read The Whole Thing) – his thoughts on Obamacare may either delight or infuriate you!
