One for America! Voter ID law upheld by Supreme Court

At least by the rational Justices, that is. Predictably, Souter, Bryer and Bader-Ginsburg dissented. But they lost.

The vote was 6-3 in favor of an Indiana law which simply requires that anyone who wants to vote in an Indiana election show a valid identification card to prove that they are who they say they are. This allows them to be checked against the roll of actual eligible voters. Now illegal aliens, foreign nationals, convicted felons, and people trying to vote multiple times can be stopped before they subvert our electoral process.

Even typically liberal Justice Stevens supported the Indiana law, saying that stopping the danger of voter fraud trumps the burden placed on elderly, minority and poor voters by requiring identification.

"We cannot conclude that the statute imposes 'excessively burdensome requirements' on any class of voters," Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the controlling opinion, joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.

Seriously--how hard is it to get a valid ID? Homeless bums on the street have them. You can't cash a welfare check without one and they're actually free to low-income people so there's no burden other than the time it take to go apply for one. And let's face it, if you don't have a job, you've got more than enough time to go to the closest DMV and get an ID. And the Court noted this same thing.

"The burden of acquiring, possessing, and showing a free photo identification is simply not severe, because it does not 'even represent a significant increase over the usual burdens of voting,' " Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, joined by Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas.

And this issue is one of the reasons why I still support the Republican Party, even though the current leadership is selling us out on border-control, immigration policy, and spending.

I have to say that it's always been a bit silly that we have to show ID to get into certain buildings or operate a car, but anyone can take part in electing the people who will run our country without showing that they are an American citizen who is actually eligible to vote.

But then that's a major agenda item of Dems these days: Expand the voting pool to include likely Dem voters--felons and low-income non-citizens--while excluding the votes of some of our finest citizens--our troops overseas--because it's well-known that they voter overwhelmingly Republican.

Republicans generally have favored tighter fraud controls, and both the Republican National Committee and the White House praised the court's ruling. Democrats, meanwhile, have said rules are too tight, and have fought to expand ballot access through same-day registration and re-enfranchising felons.

Yeah, I want felons deciding how our country is going to be run. And what's pathetic is that the Dems are willing to sell our country to a bunch of drug dealers, child molesters, rapists and armed robbers, just so long as they, the Democrats, get to be in charge of it.

And let's not forget what happens when we don't check ID and just allow anyone to vote...we get outfits like ACORN, a leftist (Democrat) group, submitting 1,762 fraudulent voter registrations in Seattle and in other states.

According to the Wall Street Journal, allegations of fraud have tainted Acorn voter drives across the country. Acorn workers have been convicted in Wisconsin and Colorado, and investigations are still under way in Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.

And that's just ONE group of vote-cheaters. They're surely not the only one. And for those not familiar with ACORN, from that same WSJ piece:

Acorn officials bill themselves as nonpartisan community organizers merely interested in giving a voice to minorities and the poor. In reality, Acorn is a union-backed, multimillion-dollar outfit that uses intimidation and other tactics to push for higher minimum wage mandates and to trash Wal-Mart and other non-union companies.

Operating in at least 38 states (as well as Canada and Mexico), Acorn pushes a highly partisan agenda, and its organizers are best understood as shock troops for the AFL-CIO and even the Democratic Party. As part of the Fannie Mae reform bill, House Democrats pushed an "affordable housing trust fund" designed to use Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac profits to subsidize Acorn, among other groups. A version of this trust fund actually passed the Republican House and will surely be on the agenda again next year.

Acorn and its affiliates have pulled some real stunts in recent years. In Ohio in 2004, a worker for one affiliate was given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. During a Congressional hearing in Ohio in the aftermath of the 2004 election, officials from several counties in the state explained Acorn's practice of dumping thousands of registration forms in their lap on the submission deadline, even though the forms had been collected months earlier.

"You have to wonder what's the point of that, if not to overwhelm the system and get phony registrations on the voter rolls," says Thor Hearne of the American Center for Voting Rights, who also testified at the hearing.

We don't need this crap sullying our electoral process, either sporadically or on a regular basis. That's why we need Voter ID laws, to protect the integrity of our system and to ensure that only Americans who have the right to vote get a say in the future of our country.

Good Job, Supreme Court.

Now if we can just require a drug test and ban drug users from voting.

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