Voter Integrity Act

In yet another brave victory for the idiots that for whatever reason, we have voted into office, we know have the Voter Integrity act.  This would stop all of the voter fraud that doesn’t happen, while still allowing re-tabulated counts to render the population at large superfluous in any election.  While the Voter Integrity act has many detractors, these are the same people that said that invading Iraq was a mistake, so clearly they should be ignored.

While the Voter Integrity act is on it’s face, at least a somewhat reasonable idea, there are many problems that come with the passage of laws without examination (see; The Patriot Act).  The Voter I.D. act says simply that voters should have a picture I.D. with them to be allowed to vote.  Sounds simple enough, until you start remembering the people that may not have an “approved” I.D. form.  This would include the handicapped that are unable to drive, but maybe the legislature was angry at them for having the best parking spaces, who can say.  Others include people that are too old to drive, minorities, and those whose I.D.’s have expired.    

And of course it goes without saying that nuns should be turned away.  At least that is what happened in Indiana, where 12 nuns were turned away from a polling station.  And the even stranger part, they were turned away by a fellow sister who was working at that station.  Well this is just brilliant, not only are nuns now considered untrustworthy (never trust anyone that hits you with a ruler?), this law is so mind-bogglingly dense that it would seem to not allow any type of human judgement to enter the decision to allow someone to vote.  I mean honestly, nuns(including a 98 year old)?  You have got to be kidding me. 

Indiana Voter I.D. laws are the strictest in the country, and by strictest I mean the most idiotic.  Others were turned away because they had recently been married, and so their names didn’t match their I.D.s,  and others who simply had outdated I.D.’s.

The ACLU filed a suit, stating that such a law would dispraportionately affect minorities and the elderly, but the Supreme Court voted 6-3 saying that nothing in the new law was unconstitutional.  Of course the constitution also originally counts African-Americans as 3/5ths of a person, so maybe they were simply trying to be strict adherents to the early Constitution, which wouldn’t surprise me in the least.  And how in the hell did they ever come up with 3/5ths?  Oh well, “angels on the head of a pin” reasoning, I suppose.  

But the most interesting part of such legislation is not merely that it disenfranchises elderly and minority voters (like say, Florida in 2000).  No, what is far more interesting is how no one seems to be passing strict laws, or even rules, regarding how the votes are being collected and counted.  Because lets face it, if you are going to commit voter fraud, a few morons may try and do it by sneaking in and voting when they shouldn’t be, but that is child’s play when you consider how many votes can be manipulated by simply changing a few numbers on a computer.