Republicans still don’t mind looking the fool with their phony voter fraud mythology. As voters continue to hear this repeated lie without media scrutiny, the party propaganda will be commonly excepted fact.
We do live an age where fact and opinion now have equal weight, and in a way, the conservative agenda has succeeded at least in that respect. But over and over, research and testing have proven otherwise, like the following example from AP:
Four out of six members on the state Government Accountability Board failed when their names were run through new voter identification checks as a test, the
board said. The Board, which runs state elections and consists of six retired judges, reported recently that 22% of those checked so far resulted in mismatches, often because of typos, slight variances in people's names, leaving out spaces and apostrophes in compound names or leaving out a middle initial.
The four failing the initial check were:
* Thomas Cane, the board's chairman. He was listed by that name on voter records but as R. Thomas Cane on driver records.
* Gerald Nichol, who had an incorrect birth date on one set of records.
* William Eich, who had a middle initial on his driver's license but not on his voter registration form.
* Gordon Myse, who had a middle initial on his voter registration form but not on his driver's license.
* Thomas Cane, the board's chairman. He was listed by that name on voter records but as R. Thomas Cane on driver records.
* Gerald Nichol, who had an incorrect birth date on one set of records.
* William Eich, who had a middle initial on his driver's license but not on his voter registration form.
* Gordon Myse, who had a middle initial on his voter registration form but not on his driver's license.
Fearing fraud could mar this fall's presidential election, Republicans have pushed the board to make people who don't correct their data show photo IDs at the polls.
Fear is the operative word here, used ironically and unintentionally, by the AP reporter.
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