Tuesday, September 20, 2005

DNC: Dean Statement on Baker-Carter Commission Report

"The DNC is concerned and disappointed that the Baker-Carter Commission on Federal Election Reform, over the strong dissent of some of its most distinguished members, has seen fit to support a 'national ID card' that threatens to deny the right to vote to millions of citizens who are lawfully registered and eligible to do so. The commission's recommendations create additional bureaucratic barriers to the ballot box, despite the fact - as the Commission itself concedes - that there is simply no evidence of the kind of widespread impersonation fraud that could remotely justify imposing such a new obstacle. In Ohio, the League of Women Voters found only four instances of impersonation out of 9 million votes, and the Secretary of State of Georgia reported that there was not a single instance of voter fraud during her tenure."- from the DNC.

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