Voter ID advocate fails to name single instance of voter fraud

[Playinghardball]

Appearing on MSNBC on Monday morning, Heritage Foundation senior fellow Brian Darling tried to advocate on behalf of Republicans’ efforts in several to purge allegedly fraudulent voters from the rolls ahead of the 2012 presidential election.

However, under questioning Darling was unable to cite a single verified instance of actual voter fraud, leading host Chuck Todd to declare that he was “actually proving” Democrats’ contention that the Republican Party’s actions are unnecessary.

“Where is this voter fraud?” Todd asked. “I mean, it’s not this giant…”

“We’ve had recent examples,” Darling said. “…We just had a Michigan Congressman resign… not run for reelection, because… his campaign gathered signatures that couldn’t be validated.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/04/voter-id-advocate-fails-to-name-single-instance-of-voter-fraud/

[louis-t]

1. “We’ve had recent examples,” IT WAS A REPUBLICAN!!!

Thad McCotter. I can name 2 others...Ann Coulter voted in the wrong precinct, never prosecuted. Mitt Romney claimed he was living in his son's unfinished basement in the '90s so he could vote against Ted Kennedy. Never prosecuted.

[spanone]

2. the only voter fraud going on is from the RNC

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. Bravo, Chuck ...

But you have set the journalistic bar wayyy too low.

A responsible journalist, given all the evidence that these voter suppression efforts are coordinated, would have not stopped at, "This is a solution without a problem" because it allows the liar vindication in a single instance of an ineligible voter, voting.

No! A responsible journalist would ask, "Since you cannot justify your strategy with a single instance of voter fraud; yet you continue to press the tact, there must be a different reason, given the money that the gop is spending on it."

[UTUSN]

4. R#5 & K n/t

[Scuba]

5. So his "voter fraud" is McCotter? Bwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

[Marr]

6. I'll bet he could name a few elections where just a few less poor voters

would've meant a Republican win, though.