Mr. Holton, when you were at your polling place and found the “wide open window” for voter fraud, did you ask if anyone had any examples of voter fraud? Yes, someone could conceivably have claimed to be you, but when you arrived to vote the manual records at your precinct would have shown that you had already voted, and we would have had an example of voter fraud to look into. Jennifer Frye, associate director for Democracy North Carolina, said that only 0.5 per 100,000 ballots cast in the 2010 election constituted possible fraud cases.

You state clearly that “by the limited press reports that there was voter fraud nationwide, and no-one has been called to task for it”. Had there been widespread abuse, there would have been considerably more than “limited press reports”. It would have been the talk of Fox News and other TV network news reporting for weeks, but it was not.

You then contacted the voter registrar office to state your objections. Did you ask them if they had any examples of voter fraud? If they had given you some examples, I suspect you would be using them as evidence to support your premise. Jennifer Frye, associate director for Democracy North Carolina, said that only 0.5 per 100,000 ballots cast in the 2010 election constituted possible fraud cases.

Having just spent the past 2 hours researching on Google, Bing, and Ask, I have yet to find a single allegation of voter fraud in North Carolina. So I wonder why you are so worried about this non-problem.

The reason you are so worried is that there is a national movement by republicans to cut down the number of registered Democratic voters? FL, WI, IN, TX, FL, OH, and now NC are such examples.

In order to cut the number of democratic voters it is necessary to keep them from registering, so the best way to do this is to target specific groups which generally vote overwhelmingly democratic and prevent them from registering. As a “long time Waxhaw resident” you are old enough to remember the Jim Crow laws and are now trying to get them reinstated.

Who has been identified in the Observer, on the NBC Nightly News, on CNN, CBS Evening News, and the PBS News Hour as potentially having difficulty getting a photo ID? Ms.Frye said “the bill targets people without a government issued ID.

“This is concerning because the data for North Carolina clearly shows that the groups most affected by this are disproportionately low-income, people of color, seniors and women,” she said.

Senior citizens. Students. Legal Immigrants. African-Americans. (NC, among other southern states) has a long and sordid history of keeping black people from voting by whatever means possible. ( If you like, I will write back and catalog them for you if you will identify valid instances of voter fraud in NC.) These are all people who could have difficulties paying a $10 fee for a photo ID.

Are these people not legal American citizens? Where is your evidence of voter fraud? Have you looked into the cost benefit of stopping this obviously very minimal voter fraud? “A recent report released by the Fiscal Research Division of the N.C. General Assembly found that the cost of implementing the bill — formally called “Restore Confidence in Government”— could be as much as $843,737 for the 2012 fiscal year.”

Sir, you are stumbling on your partisan politics. My last quote from Ms. Frye, a public servant not a politician, is “When you consider all the facts, this voter photo ID bill looks like a very partisan piece of legislation — a political trick by the majority party to tilt future elections in their favor.”

Lastly, please do not resort to conservative forums or politicians for any rebuttal you might like to make. It took me so long to research this post because of the amount of time it took to find a non-partisan source (right or left, both have mutually exclusive opinions.)

Ron Rabatsky
who wonders why it is important to identify yourself as a long time Waxhaw resident. Does this increase the validity of your argument? No. But I too am a legal American Citizen.