The Republicans have been pushing Voter ID laws across the nation. They say it is to prevent voter fraud. The Democrats have responded that voter fraud is rare, and these laws are just meant to suppress votes in groups that tend to vote for Democrats. I think the Democrats are right about that, but to give the Republicans their due, several cases of voter fraud have been exposed in the last year or so. The problem for Republicans is that it seems those guilty (or suspected) of voter fraud all seem to be members of their own party.
I don't know how I missed this story when it first came out last year -- probably because it was largely ignored by the mainstream media -- but it seems that the Republican voter fraud may actually reach all the way to the top. It seems that their probable presidential nominee this year, Willard Mitt Romney (aka Wall Street Willie), probably committed voter fraud when he voted in the 2010 election in Massachusetts. Here is how it was reported in The Daily Caller:
Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney has survived the heated GOP nominating contest so far without attracting significant attention to what may become a general election issue: allegations that he committed voter fraud in 2010.
In January 2010 the former Massachusetts governor proudly cast a ballot for Republican Scott Brown in the special election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. He didn’t own property in the state at the time, and had registered to vote listing his son’s unfinished basement as his residence.
Massachusetts law defines a residence for voter registration purposes as “where a person dwells and which is the center of his domestic, social, and civil life.” Anyone found guilty of committing voter fraud faces up to five years behind bars and a fine of $10,000.
The issue was first raised last year, after long-shot GOP candidate Fred Karger traveled to Romney’s former community of Belmont and interviewed members of his former church — who informed Karger that the Romneys had moved — and their former realtor, who told him, “Oh, they moved to California.”
Additionally, Karger claimed that Ann Romney told him that the couple lived in California.
As we know, Romney has several mansions dotted around the country and has a net worth of around a quarter of a billion dollars. Does anyone really believe he was living in his son's unfinished basement? The very idea of that is ludicrous.
I'm starting to wonder if the Republicans might be serious about their fear of voter fraud. Maybe it's so common-place in their own party that they have trouble believing that everyone is not doing it.
Needs to come out during the campaign.
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