Can Mickey Mouse Vote?

10:45 am EST October 8th, 2009 | News | 13 Comments

Dan Kennedy explains why Mickey Kaus looks really dumb like his fellow conservatives when he tries to make it sound like ACORN stole the Minnesota election for Al Franken.

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13 Responses to “Can Mickey Mouse Vote?”

  1. Iandanger says:
    October 8, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Yeah, the inability to connect registration fraud to voter fraud is a constant problem for Republicans, but they keep trying. Just look at the US Attorneys scandal that brought down Alberto Gonzalez, same issue.

    Side issue, I keep seeing a giant in window pop up ad that covers your articles, you should look into how to avoid obscuring your content with advertising, because it makes reading articles hard when that particular ad pops up.

  2. SaveFarris says:
    October 8, 2009 at 11:25 am

    It’s pretty easy for Mickey Mouse to vote if he isn’t required to show ID.

  3. jr says:
    October 8, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    Cons heart the poll tax. They don’t want black germs on the levers of the voting booths

  4. Sean D. Martin says:
    October 8, 2009 at 4:20 pm

    SaveFarris: It’s pretty easy for Mickey Mouse to vote if he isn’t required to show ID.

    So it should be pretty hard for John Q. Voter to vote if he doesn’t drive a car.

  5. Quaker in a Basement says:
    October 8, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    It’s pretty easy for Mickey Mouse to vote if he isn’t required to show ID.

    Where’s that Constitutional Originalist spirit, Farris? Did the founders put “show me some ID” in the Constitution?

  6. mike in dc says:
    October 8, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    To be fair, making Mickey Kaus look stupid takes no more than any 2 of the following:
    1. a mirror
    2. a tape recorder and microphone
    3. copying and pasting any 3 days’ worth of kausfiles

  7. Bruce Henry says:
    October 9, 2009 at 7:35 am

    I’ve voted in every national election since 1972, first in FL, then in NC. I’ve never been required to show ID. Why should I start now? Because paranoids have their panties in a bunch?

  8. Neo says:
    October 9, 2009 at 10:57 am

    the inability to connect registration fraud to voter fraud is a constant problem for Republicans .. not any more

  9. Sean D. Martin says:
    October 9, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    Bruce Henry: I’ve voted in every national election since 1972, first in FL, then in NC. I’ve never been required to show ID. Why should I start now?

    Too many deplorable things have lasted long times for tradition to ever be anything other than a meaningless argument as the reason not to fix what is seen as a problem. Either explain how it isn’t a problem or propose a solution you don’t find onerous.

    There is an interest in making sure elections are fair and correct. That those who have the right to vote are able to do so and those who don’t are not. It’s why there are voter registration rolls. The question is: What is the easiest way to verify that a voter is who they claim to be?

  10. Gregory Koster says:
    October 9, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    Dear mr. Willis: How appropriate that your motto, “Like Kryptonite to stupid,” should adorn a picture of The One.

    Sincerely yours,
    Gregory Koster

  11. SCSIwuzzy says:
    October 10, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    Kennedy asked:

    But what you don’t tell us is how it is even remotely conceivable that a field worker would write down a fake name — say, Peter Smith of 34 Jones Ave., St. Paul — and then some ineligible voter claiming to be Peter Smith of 34 Jones Ave., St. Paul, would then show up on election day and request a ballot. To me, at least, it makes no logical sense.

    Neo points out:

    Nash registered to vote last year nine times, using fraudulent names and addresses. He pleaded guilty to three counts of false registration.

    He was indicted because they caught him using a fake address at a polling place, and then followed the trail of acorns back to the tree.

    So if someone at the right level of dishonest knows the particulars of fraudulent registrations, they can try (or enlist others) to vote fraudulently. Pretty straight forward, isn’t it? Kennedy is positing a straw man in his question. Even if he was right, and nobody (other than gender bending hookers in Ohio) can draw the straight line between 2 adjacent points, fake registrations also throws off the statistics of a district. Now toss in the fact that ACORN was going to be helping with the census, and you can end up with new, false data that can lead to another round of gerrymandering the voting districts and influence the way tax dollars are spread around. I am not saying that there is some master plan by ACORN to do so, but if they allow or encourage (even by just looking the other way) fake registrations, the process will be corrupted.
    I moved to Pennsylvania this year; just in time to see my old boss Vince the Prince Fumo get his slap on the wrist. Even though I am now registered to vote in PA, and I’ve told the old state (NJ) I’ve moved, I’ve still gotten sample ballots for the primary mailed to me, and a host of Vote for Corzine stuff in the mail. Not forwarded by the USPS mind you, but printed with my new PA address.

    If I were dishonest enough, I could easily cast a vote in the NJ governor’s race. If I had moved 6 months sooner, I could have voted in both states, and likely would have gotten away with to (meddling kids!) I predict I will get ballots and flyers in 2010 as well.
    By the way, Sean D Martin, my sister is blind. She doesn’t drive. She lives in Hoboken with her husband, who never learned to drive. And yet they vote election after election. Hmm.

    Anecdotal: If you live for any period of time in the Philly-NY-Boston corridor, then you know some snow birds; mostly retired folks or people with seasonal jobs that head south to warmer climes in November and come back in April or May. If you know many, you probably know at least one that wouldn’t think there was anything wrong with voting in both state. I know one grizzled old couple that “only does it for state and local office” since the elections will affect both of their homes, but swear they only cast one vote in Presidential and national legislatorial races.

    You don’t need to be a wingnut to question ACORN’s practices and fake registrations (though their bias certainly helps, they’re ready to see the worst in left wing activist groups). I’m going to end on two simple questions. If you take ACORN out of this, and replace with the Mormon Church, the Heritage Foundation, American Center for Law & Justice, American Civil Rights Institute, AFA or any such groups, would you be as complacent? What if Franken had lost? I know we’re still hearing about Floridian foul play in 2000 and mentioning the 2008 primary on any feminist blog is sure to generate heated discussion…

  12. Fred says:
    October 11, 2009 at 8:58 pm

    It’s pretty easy for Mickey Mouse to vote if he isn’t required to show ID, AND he reads minds and knows that someone used his name to commit fraud against ACORN to make a quick buck, and knows exactly which district the fraud (that he learned about by mind reading) occurred in.

  13. Aclarkson says:
    October 16, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    couldnt agree more