|  Off to the left is part of a form, the right side of it actually, that you fill out if you want to change your address and/or register to vote through the Secretary of State's office. It's not a secret form, hidden only in the vaults of George Soros and The Tides Foundation. Rather, it's available to you, and everyone else on the Internet, at the Michigan Secretary of State's office. Please make note of the first qualification requirement if you would like to register to vote. Thus have things been since the dawn of the Motor Voter Bill, which incidentally I've made use of frequently since turning 18 right before the Motor Voter Bill became law back in the early 90s.
In other words, when you register to vote through the Secretary of State's office, the first question you are asked is whether you are a U.S. citizenship. Why is this otherwise mundane detail about the otherwise mundane voter registration process so important on a Sunday morning? Because Ruth Johnson says that it's all the fault of Democrats that she is asking you this year to prove citizenship when you vote. The Social Security Administration, Homeland Security and President Obama have failed to provide Michigan with a list of noncitizens so it can more readily verify eligible voters, a top state official says. Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson said she personally contacted the SSA, wrote and visited Homeland Security in Washington, D.C., and penned a letter to the president to provide her with a list of noncitizens without getting results. She's joking, right? No, she's not. Ruth Johnson is reacting to criticism over a decision she made by blaming Democrats. It's a punchline to a sick joke, really. Are these people ever responsible for anything they do? The other side of this is what a steaming pile of journalistic shit is this story that she's allowed to make a bunch of fantastic claims about the number of illegally registered voters without challenge. It doesn't appear that the reporter in question ever thought to ask her how she came up with that number. He also asked precisely one person who thinks this is a terrible idea -- and from a cursory glance, the only people who think this is great is Oakland's current Republican clerk, Johnson, and MLive's in-house sedetionist -- and gave that person two or three paragraphs deep in the story. Mostly, it's just an incompetently written fluff story. |
