Why Do Conservatives Fear and Hate Democracy? . . . .

The Gadfly is curious.

Just how many of these GOP initiated, tax-payer funded voter fraud investigations, which ultimately and predictably reveal that there is no proof of any massive, organized effort at voter fraud, have to occur before responsible people stand up and say "Enough of this idiotic bullshit - you have had much more than your fair chance to prove your claims and you have failed!  Enough fucking already!!?" :

Eighteen months and $150,000 later, a rigorous voter fraud investigation commissioned by Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz (R) has failed to produce any statistically significant evidence of voter fraud in Iowa, according to The Des Moines Register.

Since taking office in 2011, Schultz has made safeguarding the ballot box from fraud a top state priority, striking a two-year deal with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation in 2012 that directed $280,000 of federal funds toward voter fraud inquiries. Additionally, a full-time agent was hired and assigned to pursue voter fraud cases.

Although Schultz had expected to unveil “a lot” of voter fraud cases, the investigation so far has yielded just five guilty pleas and five dismissals, The Des Moines Register reported late Sunday.

Of the five guilty pleas, three of them involved felons who had completed their prison terms but whose voting rights had not yet been restored when they went to vote.

In another case, a woman cast an absentee ballot for her daughter, who had recently moved to Minnesota and told her mother that she had missed the registration deadline there. After learning her daughter ultimately did vote in Minnesota, the mother self-reported the double-voting incident to the local county auditor’s office, resulting in a $147.75 fine, according to The Des Moines Register.

In the fifth guilty plea, a man was incidentally charged with voter fraud after a drunk driving arrest revealed that he had stolen his dead brother’s identity to obtain a driver’s license.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/iowa-voter-fraud_n_4455110.html

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20131216/NEWS09/312160041/Iowa-voter-fraud-probe-nets-few-cases-no-trials-since-July-2012?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFrontpage&gcheck=1


The Gadfly, however, does not realistically expect conservatives to throw in the towel just yet, regardless of the fact that, to date, they have failed miserably to prove any significant level of organized vote fraud anywhere in the country.

And their reasoning is simple -- these claims of voter fraud are the new, manufactured boogeyman (kind of like communists and Sharia Law) which conservatives and the GOP are peddling to the rubes and cynically using as justification to railroad through state-level legislation designed specifically to prevent as many as possible of those citizens, whom they know have no intention of voting their way, from showing up at the polls on election day and casting a legal ballot.

It is nothing more than a concerted, insidious effort to undermine the constitutionally guaranteed right of Americans whom they politically disagree with to participate in the democratic process.

In a sane world, these efforts would be called out by those who truly respect democracy for the anti-American actions that they are.  Period.  But sadly, as we have seen, the commodity of sanity is in short supply across the land these days.



----TFG