rssNorm Coleman: Voting rights are a ‘privilege’
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Former Sen. Norm Coleman stopped to talk with Pajamas Media at last weekend’s True the Vote conference hosted by the King Street Patriots in Houston. The conference trains conservative activists in how to monitor polls and push for tighter voter ID laws. In the interview, Coleman downplayed assertions that voter fraud cost him the election against Sen. Al Franken in 2008 but called voting “one of the greatest privileges that democracy affords,” comparing voter ID to showing an identification card when writing a check at McDonald’s.
“Some places require an ID to cash a check at McDonald’s; if it’s good enough for McDonald’s it should be good enough for one of the greatest privileges that democracy affords, and that’s the right to vote,” said Coleman.
Republicans at the Minnesota Legislature have also made similar claims that voting is like buying alcohol, cigarettes or plane tickets.
The interviewer pressed Coleman about his race with Franken and alleged voter fraud, but Coleman balked a bit. “I’m not complaining about my race,” he said, later added, “ACORN didn’t support a lot of Republicans and we’ve seen a lot of about fraud.”
He added, “My race was decided by 301 votes; ACORN registered 43,000 people in Minnesota.”
The Texas Independent, which covered the weekend’s conference, quotes Coleman as saying he still believes “there remain serious questions about how the recount was conducted.”
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Comment posted March 30, 2011 @ 4:03 pm
rethugs continue to only be able to win elections by lies, trickery and subterfuge. so they keep perpetuating the big lie about voter fraud. why can’t they just stand o ntheir beliefs and present them to the voters and take their chances. the biggest voter fraud -florida in 2000 and ohio in 2004. if we didn’t have bush we wouldn’t be in this financial mess or in 2 unnecessary wars. hey norm you were a lousy candidate get over it and get some new dentures
Comment posted March 30, 2011 @ 7:41 pm
Sour grapes ranks high on the Republican Luncheon Menu. This is the constant policy of Republicans. Every crime they commit they use to accuse their critics.It is a mnemonic. One hears Voter Fraud & Republicans. Then Republicans use this voter recognition to redirect unto the Democrats. This association then ends up as the stalwart Republicans trying to stop Democratic voter fraud. It just surprises me that so many Americans are stupid enough to fall for this. The bad thing is that no one wants to admit their stupidity & then they dig in their heels rather than admit they’ve been had. And the extreme fear of Republicans that Democrats have, only enforces the deception. It is a sado-masochistic scenario worthy of Kraft-Ebbing. Only the whips & chains are missing, but I’m sure there’s a closet somewhere where these things are enacted with guilty pleasure.
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