The disenfranchisement of America continues
The election season is a few weeks away and fraud and irregularities have become a staple of our elections. Why aren’t these crimes prosecuted? John Hayward explains the high stakes of not prosecuting voter fraud and wonders why this serious crime isn’t being treated as such in this week’s Impertinent Question.
Why Take Elections Seriously?
By John Hayward
October 10, 2010
There’s really no reason to take elections seriously.
I’m not talking about voters. We need to take them very seriously indeed. A large portion of our lives has come under political control. Voting the wrong way can cause the industry you work for to be bankrupted, or nationalized. The damage caused by a poor choice of President in 2008 will take many years to undo.
I mean politicians don’t need to take election law seriously. Vote fraud and other irregularities have become staples of our elections. Like most crimes, they are perpetrated on a rational basis, by people who have measured risk against reward. The risk of punishment for election tampering is minimal, while the rewards are huge. There is virtually no chance a major race will be invalidated due
to ballot or financial irregularities. The winners of elections gain control over the very agencies that would investigate their campaigns. Once victory is secured, the worst consequences awaiting dirty
politicians are fines, which deep-pocketed contributors will be happy to help them repay.
Consider Barack Obama, who has the astonishing chutzpah to complain about foreign money influencing political campaigns. As Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit reminds us, Obama’s presidential campaign was swimming in illegal foreign money, obtained by disabling security measures on his campaign website. Obama is an important asset of the sinister George Soros international network. Many of his economy-crushing decisions, which look like shocking incompetence to the casual observer, have allowed Soros to rake in gigantic profits. For example, the Obama moratorium on offshore oil drilling – maintained in defiance of common sense and court judgments – proved to be a windfall for Petrobras, the Brazilian national oil company, which counts Soros as a billion-dollar investor.
Defying our campaign finance laws to collect those foreign contributions was a winning strategic move for Obama. There was no chance of significant repercussions, as the media strongly supported
Obama’s candidacy, and had absolutely zero interest in investigating his finances. There was no chance his campaign would be suspended upon discovery of these shady contributions. Once his election was secured, Obama was completely out of the woods. He was able to shrug off the
entire controversy by saying proper identification of donors “would be a pretty hard thing for us to be able to process.”
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