Local Paper Endorses Citizenship By Fiat

Voter Fraud

Evil Corporate Media declared today that King Obama's Amnesty By Executive Fiat is a good thing because there are no longer enough jail cells here to house arrested illegal immigrants. So, magically, our law enforcement agencies are supposed to tap into Mexico's violent criminal database (as if there was one) and discriminate: Bad guys get deported, good guys can cite the Pledge of Allegiance to obtain their voter registration and Lone Star Cards.

I have a feeling that there will be more of the latter than the former.

The idea, of course, is to outsource our democracy to foreign nationals. The way you do it is to invite them to come here by whatever means, by making our country as hospitable as possible. Offer food stamps, subsidized housing, free health care, and enroll them into the Social Security retirement plan. Once they are firmly affixed to the government tit, it makes since to let them vote too. These newly minted citizens by executive fiat need to protect the entitlements they worked so hard to get.

What Evil Corporate Media is really after is power for their friends, the progressive Democrats. While they blame rich Republicans for outsourcing our factory jobs, the local paper is advocating the outsourcing our Republic via lenient immigration policy and motor voter laws.

I sense that the legal citizens are fed up, and if Gallup's polls are correct, legal citizens aren't voting for the progressive take-down of the greatest country on earth no matter how subtle and soothing the Evil Corporate Media propaganda is.

With dwindling prospects of legal citizens supporting their toxic agenda, the great race to recruit new voters has been underway for 20 years. Obama just heated up the race, over the objections of the people, but with the endorsement of the San Angelo Standard-Times.

The good guys are fighting back, though.

This last legislative session, Governor Rick Perry led the successful effort to require identification for all voters in local, state and national elections. The law bends over backwards to provide free identification cards to those who cannot afford them, and mandates that the county registrars educate citizens on the new requirements.

The problem is that the Obama Justice Department has the opportunity to strike down the law, and based upon its past actions, there's an excellent chance that the feds will. But if they don't, there's another hurdle, a small army of trial lawyers in Texas that certainly will delay the law's implementation.

I covered many elections on the border where the chances for this kind of fraud were rampant. The preferred method of cheating on elections there was to stuff the ballot box with mail-in ballots of "voters" from every nursing home in the area. Because voter turnout was light, particularly in off-year elections, whoever harvested the mail-in vote could win the election.

In 2004, I volunteered for a Del Rio mayoral campaign that, unknown to me, stuffed the ballot box. Dora Alcala won a six-way race by 38 votes and no runoff. The top challenger sued, citing voter fraud. On the day of the trial, the county courtroom was full of elderly, nursing home residents. Not many of them even knew they had cast a ballot, much less for whom they voted. One witness said he was denied a ballot on election day because county records indicated that he had already voted by mail. The election was a fraud, but the plaintiff could not prove more than 38 illegal votes needed to overturn the outcome of the election.

While Texas' Voter ID law will not prevent mail-in ballot fraud, it's an important first step. We should greatly reduce the reasons one is eligible to vote by mail because it's harder to prove if a mail-in ballot was cast in the way the name of the person on the ballot intended. However, if we are not checking identification at the physical polling locations, why would we care about the authenticity of a mail-in ballot?

More importantly, though, if our president wants to grant illegal aliens amnesty by fiat, legal citizens should feel comfortable that our president isn't outsourcing our Republic to Mexico by giving illegal aliens access to our ballot boxes. It's a part of the goal to "secure our borders."