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Gosh, who should people believe, the highly credible John Fund who has written for years for the largest, award winning newspaper in the US? Or a lying troll like you?Anybody can write anything in a book. That is not proof.Is that what years of investigative journalism is? "Writing anything?"That's why I call you a lying troll.So the Democrat-run RI legislature passed an anti-voter fraud bill because voter fraud is rarely committed?That's not what they said.There have been convictions, and I've cited them, to your deafening silence.More hogsnot.Got that Puss? Virtually NO evidence.That doesn't seem to stop the Republican Party from using this phony issue to pass laws that make it more and more difficult for people (mostly those who tend to vote for Democrats) to vote.No evidence? Shameless freaking liar.Here's yet another example of numerous I've cited.Stolen Identities, Stolen Votes: A Case Study in Voter ImpersonationBy Hans von SpakovskyMarch 10, 2008On January 9, 2008, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, a case challenging the constitutionality of an Indiana law that requires most individuals who vote in person to present a government-issued photo identification.[1] Indiana's law was upheld by a federal district court[2] and by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.[3]Critics contend that such laws are unnecessary because "impersonation fraud" at the polling place simply does not exist. It is true that direct evidence of such fraud is hard to come by, but this is for a simple reason: Election officials cannot discover an impersonation if they are denied the very tool needed to detect it-an identification requirement. The Seventh Circuit noted "the extreme difficulty of apprehending a voter impersonator" unless the impersonator and the voter being impersonated (if living) arrive at the polls at the same time, which is a very unlikely occurrence.Ignoring this point, the editorial page of The New York Times, among others, asserts that "[i]n-person voter fraud is extremely rare."[4] To support this claim, The Times cites the attorney for the petitioners in the Indiana case, Paul M. Smith, who told the Justices that "[n]o one has been punished for this kind of fraud in living memory in this country."[5] The New York Times's position is ironic, since the best-documented case of widespread and continuing voter identity or impersonation fraud comes out of the newspaper's own City of New York.A 14-Year Vote-Fraud ConspiracyA striking example of identity fraud at polling places, well within living memory, is described in a grand jury report publicly released in 1984 by the Kings County District Attorney and former Democratic Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman.[6] Had it checked its own archives, The New York Times would have found a story from 1984, "Boss Tweed Is Gone, But Not His Vote," that detailed the findings of the grand jury.[7] As that article reported, the grand jury report "disclosed that cemetery voting and other forms of stuffing the ballot box were not buried with Tammany Hall."[8]The grand jury report revealed extensive voter registration and voter impersonation fraud in primary elections in Brooklyn between 1968 and 1982 that affected races for the U.S. Congress and the New York State Senate and Assembly. According to Holtzman, "[t]he grand jury investigation has uncovered a systematic attack on the integrity of elections in Brooklyn." Holtzman warned that unless there were immediate changes in procedures, there was "a danger that serious fraud could occur in connection with the upcoming election."[9]This 14-year conspiracy was detailed by witnesses who participated in the fraud and were able to describe in great detail how it was accomplished. The grand jury found evidence of fraudulent and illegal practices in "two primary elections for Congress held in 1976 and 1982, four primary elections for the Assembly in three different assembly districts, three primary elections for the State Senate in one senatorial district and two elections for state committee in two different districts."[10] For 14 years, the conspirators engaged in practices that included: the forgery of voter registration cards with the names of fictitious persons, the filing of these cards with the Board of Elections, [and] the recruitment of people to cast multiple votes on behalf of specified candidates using these forged cards or the cards of deceased and other persons.[11]The grand jury explained that "the ease and boldness with which these fraudulent schemes were carried out shows the vulnerability of our entire electoral process to unscrupulous and fraudulent manipulation."[12]http://www.heritage....erImpersonationMore evidence you'll ignore.The claim that there is no voter fraud in the U.S. is patently ridiculous, given our rich and unfortunate history of it. As the U.S. Supreme Court said when it upheld Indianas photo-ID law in 2008, Flagrant examples of such fraud . . . have been documented throughout this Nations history by respected historians and journalists. The liberal groups that fought Indianas law didnt have much luck with liberal justice John Paul Stevens, who wrote the 63 decision. Before being named to the Supreme Court, Justice Stevens practiced law in Chicago, a hotbed of electoral malfeasance . . .http://blog.heritage...-voter-id-laws/