Should the U.N. support the NAACP in their

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Angering their own party, Rhode Island Democrats approve voter ID

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Ah, there we go. An example of a reasonable law, properly phased in and accompanied by provisions for obtaining IDs. From that article:

Mollis, the Rhode Island secretary of state, acknowledges that his backing of photo ID rules has raised eyebrows among his peers around the country. At a meeting of secretaries of state earlier this month, he says, he was asked about his state’s new law by “skeptical” Democrats. But he says many of them were more receptive when they found out some of the details of the law.

The measure, for instance, will be phased in and will not require photo IDs to be presented at the polls until 2014. It will provide IDs free of charge to all those who do not have them. Those who forget their driver’s licenses will be allowed to fill out provisional ballots that can be validated later.

Is it too much to hope for other states to handle it reasonably as well?

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Heretic, this is from the South Carolina Election Commission. It's the investigation done after people talked about those "900" people.

While the SEC has not yet been provided with all the information on which the claims are being made, the Attorney General's office has provided a small sample - six names from Abbeville County. A review of the voter registration lists and signatures on the poll lists from the elections in question revealed that of these six:

One was an absentee ballot cast by a voter who then died before election day;
Another was the result of an error by a poll worker who mistakenly marked the voter as Samuel Ferguson, Jr. when the voter was in fact Samuel Ferguson, III;
Two were the result of stray marks on the voter registration list detected by the scanner - again, a clerical error;
The final two were the result of poll managers incorrectly marking the name of the voter in question instead of the voter listed either above or below on the list.

With the presidential primary looming on January 21, the SEC was compelled to find out if any of the 37,000 voters identified by DMV as deceased had requested absentee ballots for the primary. This research found 10 voters in 8 different counties applied for absentee ballots. The SEC immediately asked local election officials to provide us with copies of the voter registration and absentee applications signed by these voters. In every case, the signatures on these forms were matched, and each of these ten voters was confirmed to be alive.

A small sample size? Yes, But if you can't see past the 900 dead being more or less errors, then you believe in one too many conspiracies. By the way, 900 out of a voting population of 2.5 million, do you know what that percentage is? .0036%

Percentage wise it is a small sample, yet in a closely contested race it may mean the difference between winning and losing.

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NAACP STATE LEADER SENT TO PRISON FOR VOTER FRAUD