Republicans Require No Photo ID to Vote in Iowa Republican Caucus

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Republicans Require No Photo ID to Vote in Iowa Republican Caucus

For all of their years of claims that massive voter fraud is going on at the polling place, such that Photo ID restrictions are required to ensure the integrity of the vote, you'd think that when Republicans have a chance to run their own elections, they'd be sure to want it to be as "fraud" free as possible.

Nonetheless, despite onerous polling place Photo ID requirements now passed into law in about a dozen states where the GOP controls both the legislative and executive branches, voters will be able to cast their ballot in next Tuesday's "First-in-the-Nation" Republican Iowa Caucuses without bothering to show a Photo ID --- even though the Republican Party itself sets their own rules for voting there.

Unlike most primary elections where an official state election board or agency sets the rules and runs the registration and balloting processes, the Iowa Republican Party runs its own state caucuses, determines the rules, tabulates all the votes and announces the results to the public and media themselves. They have complete control over the entire process, and yet they don't bother to ask their own voters to show a state-issued Photo ID before casting their ballot.

I wonder why that would be?...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9016

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Oh, I LOVE the smell of hypocrisy in the morning...

[zbdent]

2. I want some high-level Republican who runs on the "voter fraud" issue to answer me one question ...

"If your party is so adamant about fighting voter fraud ... why wasn't Ann Coulter convicted? She admitted it!"

[bleever]

3. I bet they use paper ballots, too, and hand-count them.

They know all too well when to use the magic e-voting systems...

[BradBlog]

4. You're right! But...

While they use paper ballots and hand-count them, they do so in secret. More details here:

"GOP Fears Iowa Caucus May be Hacked Following Purported Video Threat by 'Anonymous'"
a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8997

[bleever]

11. I suspected that they would still shroud the results in secrecy,

because there sure are a great number of interests who don't want Ron Paul to come out on top, and if Republicans know one thing about elections, it's that they are too important to be left up to the voters.

[MADem]

5. Democrats voting in the general election will be required, though, to provide

3 forms of picture ID, a blood and urine sample, and a birth certificate AND a notarized statement from the physician who delivered them!

Let me whip this out for the humor-impaired:

[noel711]

15. And pass a drug test..

and throw in a religious purity/doctrinal test while you're at it.

And let's revert back to the perspective of the constitutional founders:
only white male landed gentry need apply.
Fitness for citizenship.... that's what it's all about.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Just heard you on the radio, Brad!

Keep up the great work!!!

[BradBlog]

12. Thanks, Proud! And...

...BE sure to tune in to Mike Malloy Show tomorrow night (Thursday) and Friday, as I'll be sitting in once again as guest host!

Should be fun!

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Will do!

[Turbineguy]

7. But won't that let a lot of Democrats in?

[Odin2005]

8. Well funny that...

[usaf-vet]

9. Perry is suing the State of VA for ballot access..

this hypocritical ass says the VA rules are to "unrealistic and restrictive" and “limits the rights of voters to vote for the candidate of their choice.”

What in the hell do they think the Voter ID bills are going to do? Make voting easier.

It makes a person want to scream.

[ejbr]

10. IOKIYAR n/t

[Old and In the Way]

14. The "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" Party.

What a joke this Party is.

[Ruby the Liberal]

16. Locking - not LBN

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