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July 3rd, 2016 
Awake Goy
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Group
Republicans love to cover their voter suppression tracks by focusing their base onto this mythical voter fraud problem that is so rare it could be classified as a unicorn.
With voter fraud being essentially non-existent, it cannot effect the integrity of our electoral process, and yet it is a regular point of contention manifested by the GOP and their corresponding media outlets.
And unfortunately, these concepts of voter and election fraud have been promoted to suppress the fact that voter suppression is a real problem.
According to Project Vote, voter fraud is the “intentional corruption of the electoral process by the voter” by way of influencing the election.
Election fraud is very different because it is a combination of suppression and fraud that results in electoral manipulation. The Department of Justice (DoJ) has identified a dozen ways to achieve this goal; however fraud committed by the voter is still extremely rare.
In the majority of cases, it is an electoral campaign official or worker, and/or the candidate themselves who is responsible for the chicanery. From absentee ballots or falsifying tally results, to preventing voters from casting a ballot to intimidation techniques, there are plenty of ways to cause the outcome to be favorable to one side over another.
But in the end, the real problem that threatens out voting process is voter suppression – the system republicans have installed across the country to prevent “certain” people from either registering to vote, or finding a polling station to cast their ballot.
Just six years ago, the republican candidate for governor ran robocalls to an estimated 112,000 African-American voters, telling them that the red team had the election in the bag, and it was futile to go out a vote.
And again earlier this year in California, voter suppression in Siskiyou County was initiated at the end of a gun with deputies carrying assault rifles investigated allegations of voter fraud in the Hmong community, a group a refugees that became naturalized in order to vote in the state primaries.
This blatant display of racism was excused by law enforcement as necessary because apparently newly legalized citizens still do not have a legitimate right to vote – according to racists who perpetuate the lie of voter fraud over stopping voter suppression.
But when it comes to the crème de la crème of voter suppression, no one does it better than the republicans.
Lorraine Minnite, political scientist for Rutgers University explained that the GOP’s strategy of voter suppression is upheld under “the guise of an integrity issue”.
Back in January of this year, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the state of Kansas for “illegal demands for additional proof of citizenship for people” registering to vote when renewing or applying for a driver’s license.
In the complaint, the ACLU accused the state of Kansas from blocking more than 35,000 potential voters from voting for 24 months (equal to 14% of new registrants), because they were required to product documents such as a US birth certificate or valid passport.
When compared to federal law, this 2013 change in Kansas is an overreach of federal requirements; as well as a prevention of potential democratic votes cast by minority and younger voters.
In making the change, government of Kansas effectively violated a significant amount of voters with the purpose of attempting to say the vote in the GOP’s favor by making it difficult for monitories, students and the poor from casting a vote for a democrat.
Ralph Ortiz, a U.S. Air Force veteran who registered to vote in Kansas while renewing his driver’s license, was suspended from voting because he failed to “provide additional proof of citizenship”.
Because of the voter ID law, 44% of 18 to 29 year old Kansas natives and 54% of non-party affiliated voters have been prevented from their constitutional right to vote.
Kansas is one of 5 Republican controlled states that have enacted proof-of-citizenship laws, beginning with Arizona in 2004. That law was struck down by the US Supreme Court (USSC) 3 years ago, writing in their opinion: “We conclude that the fairest reading of the statute is that a state-imposed requirement of evidence of citizenship not required by the federal form is ‘inconsistent with’ the NVRA’s mandate that states ‘accept and use’ the federal form.”
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