{"id":9128,"date":"2011-04-04T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9128"},"modified":"2011-04-04T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T15:11:43","slug":"colorado-proves-the-need-for-voter-identification-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9128\/colorado-proves-the-need-for-voter-identification-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Proves the Need for Voter Identification Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you follow the debates over whether voters should be required to present a photo ID at their polling place, you’ve probably heard the standard Democratic refrain before: there’s very little real voter fraud out there and voter ID policies are just a cynical Republican plot to suppress turnout amongst key Democratic constituencies. As is the prevailing tendency, however, liberal rhetoric is now being undermined by stone cold facts.<\/p>\n

Last week, the U.S. House’s Administration Committee heard testimony on a Colorado study that used the 2010 election to put claims of scarce voter fraud to the test. The results, as The Hill reports<\/a>, were shocking:<\/p>\n

Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican, told the panel that his department\u2019s study identified nearly 12,000 people who were not citizens but were still registered to vote in Colorado.<\/p>\n

Of those non-citizen registered voters, nearly 5,000 took part in the 2010 general election in which Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet narrowly defeated Republican Ken Buck.<\/p>\n

Colorado conducted the study by comparing the state\u2019s voter registration database with driver\u2019s license records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We applaud our Democratic friends for their efforts to increase voter turnout. We just wish they’d stick with legal voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you follow the debates over whether voters should be required to present a photo ID at their polling place, you’ve probably heard the standard Democratic refrain before: there’s very little real voter fraud out there and voter ID policies are just a cynical Republican plot to suppress turnout amongst key Democratic constituencies. As is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2548,1064,2547,1654,1859,1340,399,2549,2550],"class_list":["post-9128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-campaign-law","tag-colorado","tag-election-fraud","tag-election-law","tag-ken-buck","tag-michael-bennet","tag-voter-fraud","tag-voter-identification","tag-voter-registration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9131,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions\/9131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}