There's No Right to Vote Fraudulently

Alexandra Zavis reports in the Los Angeles Times on the NAALCP having a convention in LA.

In a pointed keynote address Monday, NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous urged members of the civil rights organization to stand up against restrictive state voting laws, which he compared to Jim Crow laws of decades past.

I will not make fun of his name. I will not make fun of his name. I will not make fun of his name.

"Let us be clear, the right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged and without which … none can be protected," Jealous said at the annual convention of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, being held in downtown Los Angeles through Thursday.

Yes, sir, and if someone is voting fraudulently, that dilutes your vote. Unless, of course, you're sure they're voting your way. Hmmm.

He blamed "racist elements" in the "tea party" movement for new voting requirements, which he said have disenfranchised minority voters in dozens of states as President Obama prepares to seek reelection in 2012.

Oooooh, the TEA Party! Oooooh! Did they dim the lights when he said that and make his voice echo? How is it racist to want only actual citizens to vote? Or is Jealous saying that a disproportionate number of minorities are frauds?

"Let us recognize the obvious," Jealous said. "Our voting rights are under attack because we had a great breakthrough — the election of a black president. It was followed by a great backlash."

Goodness knows Clinton and Bush never faced a backlash.

He cited new laws in 30 states that require voters to present approved photo identification at the polls. "Simply put, people who are too poor to own a car tend not to have a driver's license," he said.

It's called... identification. You don't need to drive to get ID. How about doing an outreach?

In Wisconsin alone, he said, half of black adults and half of Latino adults are now ineligible to vote because of this requirement.

Oh, if only there was some way they could get an ID!

Jealous also took issue with laws in Georgia and Arizona that require voters to attach a copy of their driver's license, birth certificate or passport to their registration forms. And in Florida, he said, the establishment of a five-to-seven-year waiting period before felons can vote would disqualify more than 500,000 voters, including 250,000 blacks.

Oh, if only there was some way people could not commit felonies!

Another major issue that Jealous cited was the plight of black men, who he said continue to face high rates of unemployment, incarceration and death.

White people live forever, you see.

"There is a real need to systemically go after the policies, go after the practices which together add up to this dismal situation," Jealous said after his address.

More or expanded federal government programs are his answer, I'd wager. Not, you know, raising children within wedlock after getting an education and training.

Why does the Left think it is important to have fraudulent voters, to make citizens out of illegal aliens, to let felons votes, and make new, Democrat-heavy states? Do they think they can't win enough elections under current conditions with legitimate votes?