Todd Akin also said this: The Voting Rights Act Of 1965 Should Be Overturned

"All the man needs is a tail to be a pig." I do believe we have a tailless pig here.

and keep the peasants in their place.

Who thinks this way?

This can't be a real person....

The federal government protects federal rights where states refuse to do so. That's why those acts had to pass. Moron.

That will slow down, if not stop the election frauds in places like Ohio and Florida.

Spell check: 'moron' is 'moran'

This is DU and we pride ourselves on our spelling.

thanks you internet spelling nazi!

I just posted this on another thread as evidence that Akin may have ties to Karl Rove going back that far. But I think it belongs here as well.

The backstory in brief is that during the 2000 election, the GOP in Missouri was making a lot of noise about alleged Democratic voter fraud, and Akin soon become one of the people promoting those claims.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080301210129/http://www.house.gov/akin/updates/20020312.html

March 12, 2002

Voting: Secret, not anonymous
Todd Akin

Recently, a controversial vote was taken in the Senate that could have killed the federal election reform bill. The debate centered on Sen. Christopher S. Bond's insistence that federal election reform include modest protections against voter fraud. The November 2000 elections in Missouri brought the issue of widespread voter fraud to the attention of the public.

I testified before a commission established by Secretary of State Matt Blunt that duplicate voter registrations and lax voter registration procedures contributed to serious abuses. The secretary's report issued last July concurred. It established that at least 1,384 votes had been illegally cast during the election of November 2000, and it called for reform.

In the Senate, Bond thought he had securred an agreement on the election reform bill that would go a long way toward deterring the type of voter fraud that Blunt's report outlined. The bipartisan agreement required voters who register or vote by mail to provide some proof of residency, such as a photocopy of a driver's license, utility bill, phone bill or tax bill. All sides agreed that this requirement was a reasonable and necessary step in preventing voter fraud.