Voter ID Worldwide

For John, BLUF:  Tell me you never heard of voter fraud in Lawrence.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Obama’s Final Whopper as President

Here is the sub-headline:

He claimed that other countries don’t have voter-ID laws, though many do.

From National Review and the keyboard of Mr John Fund.

President Obama is known for telling some whoppers — “If you like your health-care plan, you can keep it” is perhaps the most infamous – so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that he told a final one as president right before leaving office last week.

At his final press conference, Obama promised that he would continue to fight voter-ID laws and other measures designed to improve voting integrity.  The U.S. is “the only country among advanced democracies that makes it harder to vote,” he claimed.  “It traces directly back to Jim Crow and the legacy of slavery, and it became sort of acceptable to restrict the franchise. . . . This whole notion of election-voting fraud, this is something that has constantly been disproved.  This is fake news.”

The argument over whether or not there is voter fraud will rage on, in part because the Obama administration has spent eight years blocking states from gaining access to federal lists of non-citizen and other possibly illegal voters.  Even so, there is abundant evidence that voter fraud is easy to commit.  The Heritage Foundation’s website contains hundreds of recent examples of people convicted of stealing votes.  But Obama’s first statement, that the U.S. is unique in trying to enforce ballot integrity, is demonstrably false.

All industrialized democracies — and most that are not — require voters to prove their identity before voting.  Britain was a holdout, but last month it announced that persistent examples of voter fraud will require officials to see passports or other documentation from voters in areas prone to corruption.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff