The Houston Chronicle is so pleased that the bill to require proof of identity and citizenship for voters has been blocked, despite overwhelming support of the people of Texas.

Once again a minority bulwark of Democratic state senators has blocked the advance of sloppily crafted, partisan legislation in Austin. The legislation would have required Texas voters to produce a confusing welter of identification in order to cast ballots.

The demise, at least temporarily, of SB 218 in the Senate was as vituperative and tacky as the process that pushed it through the House. Although none of the bill's proponents produced evidence of widespread voter impersonation, the bill still received easy approval on a largely party line vote.

The bill would have required Texas voters to present at the voting place either photo IDs or substitutes in addition to a valid voter registration card. Republicans said the purpose was to increase voting integrity. Democrats charged the real aim was to suppress voting by their prime constituencies, including the elderly and minorities, who are less likely to have the required identification than more affluent, working-age citizens.

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Rather than trying to fix a problem — widespread voter fraud — that does not exist, lawmakers should turn their focus to the real issues: the poor reliability of electronic voting systems and the need for a paper trail to verify the accuracy of the count.

Yeah – voter fraud certainly isn’t a problem. I mean, there certainly isn’t any voter fraud or voting by non-citizens in Texas. Right?

Hundreds of illegal immigrants have registered to vote in Bexar County in recent years and dozens of them have actually cast ballots, canceling out the votes of U.S. citizens, 1200 WOAI news will report Thursday morning.

Figures obtained by 1200 WOAI news shows 303 illegals successfully registered to vote, and at least 41 cast ballots in various elections.

Bexar County Elections Administrator Jackie Callanan confirmed the figures, but she says a new form of voter registration card, which requires people to swear they are citizens when they register, should help cut the problem, because people who vote illegally can be charged with perjury.

And we know that those who break our laws by illegally entering the country and working in violation of the law are really very concerned about being charged with perjury, given their high level of respect for the rest of the laws of this country. And if we see a couple of hundred illegal voters in every county – illegal voters who are most likely going to vote for the Democrats – that is just great in the eyes of the Chronicle and the Democrats.

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