Hillary, Schumer Oppose Election Reform
NewsMax.com
Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2002
Only two U.S. senators today opposed a mild effort to reduce election fraud: New York Democrats Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer.
The Senate voted 92-2 to establish nationwide election standards and hand the states billions of dollars to improve voting systems. The bill now goes to President Bush, who has promised to sign it.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called the bill a "historic consensus" that "will help make all elections more accurate, more accessible and more honest."
"Election Day 2000 was not a proud day for our democracy [sic], but that day was also a gift. Had there never been a contested election, the problems likely would never have been addressed," said Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who apparently didn't learn in elementary school that the U.S. is a constitutional republic, not a "democracy."
Dodd said the legislation "goes a long way toward righting those wrongs."
Sens. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Phil Gramm, R-Texas, Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark., Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and lame duck Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., were not present for the vote.
The House passed the measure last week in a 357-48 vote.
"The bill establishes statewide registration lists that would use the last four digits of a voter's driver's license or Social Security number as an identifier for the database. Voters with neither number would be assigned an identifying number by the state," the Associated Press reported.
The wire service noted that "many Democrats have opposed" even this bill's weak attempt to require make voters - gasp - identify themselves.
Oh, we can't have that, can we? Elections are so much easier to steal when dead Democrats vote early and vote often.
Voters who registered by mail will now supposedly have to show identification the first time they vote. Among the "proof" of identity allowed: utility bills.
Uh oh: The measure forces states to permit "provisional voting," which allows anyone to vote even when his name does not appear on election rolls. Such ballots will - allegedly - be set aside, and election officials later will - supposedly - determine whether the ballots are valid. Yeah, that'll happen.
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NewsMax.com
Thursday, Oct. 17, 2002
Hillary Clinton is remarkably candid in explaining why she was one of only two U.S senators to vote against even a weak attempt to stop election fraud.
"This would make it more difficult to vote in New York," she told the New York Post.
Yes, it's such an agonizing ordeal when people have to reach back, take their wallet out of their pocket or purse, find their driver's license or Social Security card, stick the card back in the wallet, and stow the wallet. It's cruel and inhumane.
Of course, Democrat fraud was so much easier in the good old days when a New Yorker merely had to sign his name - or anyone's name - to "prove" his identity before voting.
The new measure certainly won't do Hillary's future presidential campaign any good.
The "surprising opposition" of Hillary and fellow New York Democrat Sen. Charles Schumer "angered even some Democrats, who had worked for months to win a broad compromise," the Post reported today.
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., gave a "sharp rebuke" to Hill and Chuck, and said the bill was supposed to help the country, not any one state.
"I'm not in the Connecticut Assembly or the New York ... Assembly. I'm serving the United States Senate. I was under the impression that we were serving the country here," Dodd said sarcastically.
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