Introducing the Progressive 2012 Voter (Suppression) Campaign

COMMENTARY | Come on, admit it. You knew it was coming. So, here it is. A group of progressive activists, funded by such wealthy far-left wing liberals like George Soros, is once again engaged in their traditionally selfless mission to prevent evil Republicans from "manipulating" election results.

According to the Washington Times, a small tax-exempt political group known as the Secretary of State Project (SOSP) has been surreptitiously making sure that progressive Democrats are elected as secretaries of state to oversee the 2012 election process in key battleground states.

The fact that liberal groups felt it necessary to launch their Mock the Vote campaign so early is quite telling. While Obama's job approval numbers fall steadily, he is simultaneously hemorrhaging supporters in nearly every demographic. Their claim that they want "reform-minded" Democrats in these positions of election authority in order to keep Republican "political operatives from deciding who can vote and how those votes are counted" in battleground states is revealing. Polling also indicates that Obama has lost significant favor in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida, battleground states he carried handily in 2008.

While it is understandable that liberals would be worried right now, the insinuation made by SOSP that its efforts are to ensure a fair election and prevent voter disenfranchisement in 2012 is frankly and utterly laughable.

Let's go back in time, shall we?

In 2010, Illinois Democrat Secretary of State Jessie White conveniently forgot to send thousands of absentee ballots out to members of the military serving overseas. According to WSL 890AM, White's office passed the liability buck to Democrat Illinois Election Official Robert Delaney, informing Chicago Now that White was only responsible for "counting," not sending out the ballots. No biggie, right? Just a one-time slip. Wrong. As it turns out, Big Government.com revealed that Democrat Robert Delaney has a bit of a history of voter suppression.

Just two weeks before the April 2009 elections, Delaney mailed letters to the 97 percent Africa-American residents of Alorton, Ill., Informing them that if they did not attend a specially scheduled hearing their voter registration would be canceled and any voter who had already cast an absentee ballot would have their ballot rejected. Residents banded together and filed a lawsuit and an emergency injunction was issued against Delaney to stop him from suppressing minority voters.

While White was able to technically skirt responsibility for the effort to suppress military votes, he did endorse Pat Quinn, the Democrat governor who recently signed a handy little redistricting law crafted to reverse those 2010 Republican gains in the 2012 election. Coincidence?

Interestingly, the New York Daily News reported that the Democratic run Board of Elections in the Big Apple also "forgot" to mail out ballots to the military in 2010. Worse than that, even though the Democrat-run Department of Justice gave its fellow Democrat officials in New York a pass by issuing a waiver that gave them extra time, Pajamas Media revealed that it "forgot" to meet that deadline as well.

Of course, liberal groups like Move On.org's thug organization "Accountable America," have already been busted for threatening anyone who sends political contributions to any conservative PAC. Then there was that whole bat-wielding Black Panthers standing in front of the doors at a polling precinct thing. Of course, there's also that whole Voter ID kerfuffle spreading across the country that has liberals screaming like a bunch of Girl Scouts whose cookie shipment just got hit by a distribution warehouse sprinkler system.

In Indiana, against strong Democrat opposition, lawmakers passed Public Law 109 in 2005, which required residents to present a government-issued photo ID at polling places before casting a ballot. Liberal activists immediately began their efforts to repeal the law through the court system. Even though the law applied to everyone, the League of Women Voters argued that the law would treat some voting groups unfairly, according to the New York Times. Republican Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita disagreed.

"The plaintiffs, after five years of having this law implemented, have yet to find one person who has truly been disenfranchised by this law," Rokita said, reports AP. "They can't find the Indiana voter that this has wrongfully offended."

Unable to refute Rokita's facts, president of the Indianapolis League of Women Voters Erin Kelley was forced to obfuscate.

"We actually do know of individuals who have been turned away from the polls on the basis of identification," she assured. However, rather than producing even one of these mythical victims to substantiate her claim, Kelley believed her criticism of the law should be sufficient enough to prove they existed.

The Dallas Morning News reported that Republican lawmakers in Texas passed their Voter ID law in January by a vote of 19-11. Except for one who didn't think it was an important enough measure to show up for, every Democrat voted against the law, which the majority of their constituents wanted.

This month, even though the majority of her constituents favored the law, Talking Points Memo revealed that North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (D) vetoed a Voter ID bill passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature.

According to the Civitas Institute, throughout the history of their polling, voter response among Americans in general has never fallen below 83 percent favorability in requiring photo identification to vote. With the 2012 November elections approaching, legislators have advanced voter identification laws in 13 states. Where Republicans say these measures are simply to prevent voter fraud, Democrats say the laws will prevent specific groups of people from engaging their constitutional right to cast a ballot.

Apparently, these disenfranchised groups whom the insidious Republicans are so determined to oppress include such helpless minority groups as dead people, Disney characters, 7-year-old females, imaginary playmates, convicted felons, clones of poor people who depend on ACORN for cigarettes and cash and a variety of sports figures, politicians and Hollywood actors who live in Washington, D.C., homeless shelters.

With the defunding of ACORN, who knows who will help these poor, defenseless people register to vote?

Were it not for generous men like George Soros, who is willing to cough up billions in donations to help these altruistic liberal groups stand up for their civil rights, such defenseless and disenfranchised souls like Micky Mouse may never be allowed to cast a ballot for Obama.

Sources:

Chuck Neubauer, "Soros and liberal groups seeking top election posts in battleground states", Washington Times

David Jackson, "Obama struggling in Keystone State, poll says", USA Today

"March 24, 2011 - Ohio Voters Divided On Second Term For Obama, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; But Voters Like Him More Than Gov. Kasich", Quinnipiac University

Brendan Farrington, "2012 troubles ahead for Obama in prized Florida?", Associated Press

Adam Zielinski, "Military Ballots May Not Count in Illinois", WLS 890 AM, Chicago

Warner Todd Hudson, "Democrats Stealing Elections: Illinois Dems Deny Military the Vote in 2010 Election" Chicago Now/Publius Forum

Monique Garcia, "Jesse White cites need for stability in backing Pat Quinn for governor", Chicago Tribune

Erick Johnson, "Illinois governor signs election law favoring Democrats", Reuters

Thomas M. DeFrank and Lukas I. Alpert, "Board of Elections gaffe may nullify New York soldiers' overseas absentee ballots", New York Daily News

Christian Adams, "New York Fails To Mail Ballots to Active Military, DOJ Yet To Act, Pajamas Media

Jeff Johnson, "Liberal intimidation tactic may be illegal (Is Accountable America violating the Ku Klux Klan Act?)", Free Republic

Patrick Jonnson, "New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case: 'Bombshell' for Obama?", The Christian Science Monitor

"Photo ID Law", Indiana Secretary of State/Charlie White

John Schwartz, "Indiana Court Strikes Down Voter ID Law," New York Times

Deanna Martin and Charles Wilson/Journal Gazette, "Voter ID law stands in justices' 4-1 ruling", Associated Press

Terrence Stutz/Austin Bureau, "Texas Senate passes GOP-backed voter ID bill", Dallas Morning News

Christy Hope, "Texans favor illegal immigration crackdown up to a point", Dallas Morning News

Ned Barnett, "North Carolina lawmakers approve voter photo I.D. law", Reuters

Eric Kleefeld, "North Carolina Dem Governor Vetoes GOP Voter-ID Bill", Talking Points Memo

"Civitas Poll: "Voters Continue to Demand Requiring Photo ID to Vote", John W. Pope Civitas Institute

Lee Ann O'Neil, "Ballots cast in Houston using dead voters' names", Texas Watchdog

Richard Danielson, "Vote drives defended, despite fake names", Tampa Bay.com

Ginger Adams Otis and Susan Edelman in New York and Melissa Klein in Bridgeport, Conn, "7-YR.-OLD GETS AN ACORN VOTE- CONN. JOB TO BOOST OBAMA", New York Post

Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnson, "Thousands of voter registration forms faked, officials say", CNN

Gregg Borowski, "ACORN suspicion swells as McCain camp questions Obama's ties", Journal Sentinel

Jeane MacIntosh, "1 VOTER, 72 REGISTRATIONS - 'ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS'", New York Post

Gregory Roberts, "Voter-registration workers charged with submitting bogus registrations", Seattle Post-Inteligencer