“It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.”—Virgil Goode
Yesterday, the New Hampshire Senate passed SB289 right down party lines 18 to 5, according the the New Hampshire Union Leader. The bill now goes to the House. The Senate website indicates a roll call vote, but as of this morning, there is no listing for that. Why is the leadership in this Senate Body “gun shy” about each Senator owning his or her vote via roll call?
The bill require voters to show photo identification before casting ballots is a step closer to becoming law after it was passed by a wide margin in the Senate on Wednesday.
So the bill has come to pass along with its’ rather lengthy amendment #2012-972s. A amendment that would make even the most technicratic of technicrats gloss over into a coma. And when the lefties can’t win on an issue they attempt to drill the operation of the law down into the untenable. Take Senator Amanda Merrill’s amendment for example. #2012-1142S calls for a review after every state general election. Total quagmire comes to mind. Fortunately, that amendment failed. But #2012-972S isn’t much better and creates a lot “what ifs” and “whereto-fors.” But, the skunk was at the picnic and he left his calling card.
Clearly, this was an ideological-based issue, with its’ 18-5 vote along party lines. SB 289, will require voters to present one of several forms of identification, including expired driver’s licenses, student identification, or military IDs as a prerequisite to vote. Seems reasonable enough, right? So, why does there exist a group within our society so desirous to maintain the status-quo of rigged electioneering or the capability of rigged electioneering? Simple. They cannot win honestly, so winning at any cost is the new standard.
The Union Leader reported in today’s edition that this legislation was spurred from recent revelations by James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas cadre being able to obtain ballots using the names of dead people during the state’s presidential primary in January. But the reality is many in Granite State have long advocated for a voter ID provision long before Project Veritas, only to be cowed by the rather loud, unprincipled leftwing progressives heralding the hues and cries of disenfranchisement.
Of course, we know this as evidenced by Senator, “Liberal Lou” D’Allesandro’s rank pandering and charlatanry when he pontificated about the history of America when voting excluded women, blacks and restricted voting to property-owning males. That was the reason “Liberal Lou” gave to oppose the bill. Lou is another one of those dinosaur liberals who glosses over the fact that, despite those injustices, no other nation, comparatively speaking has ever so swiftly and with diligent intention, correct its own injustices like this nation has. “Liberal Lou pimps history for his own useful purposes and not for instructive purposes. And he tells the Union Leader,
“Now the pendulum is swinging the other way. We don’t want to limit the franchise, to marginalize the right to vote,”
Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley, also one of the bill’s cosponsors counters, “What (the bill) does is ensure our elections are clean. As long as you are who you say you are, you will not have a problem. If not, then don’t try to vote in New Hampshire.”
Of course the lilly-voiced Lynch mouthpiece Collin Manning had to offer his own sound bytes asserting, (The Governor will) review it when it comes to his desk. Governor. Lynch will speak with the secretary of state and review any proposed changes very carefully to ensure, “the constitutional right to vote continues to be protected” in New Hampshire.” As if….As if voter ID bills sought to exclude people. Certainly that is the implication in his conditional language.
The left-wing progressives are losing. For too long they have been able to pack the polls with democrat voters hailing from the ranks of those not qualified to vote. They have been further enabled in a systemic enabling of non-investigation, non-prosecution and non-action where they can later say that voter fraud does not exist in New Hampshire. It took James O’Keefe and his project Veritas to allow the public to weigh the evidence of the reality. And in the face of that reality, liberals everywhere got louder, fiercer and meaner in calling for the prosecution of O’Keefe. Never was there any discourse or weighing from their camp about what Project Veritas revealed. Instead accusations that the video was rigged bandied about.
SB 289 now goes tot he house for a vote. I will lay odds that on that day, there will be the smartest guys in the room weighing in to tweak it, liberals there to supress it, and Free-Staters there to oppose it. Time to thin the herd in Concord.
