1/28/19: Fox News announces that Texas has found 95,000 non-citizens on its voter rolls. State officials say that includes 58,000 who voted illegally! Once again, this proves to fans of Donald J. Trump, who also love Fox News – which if we drew a Venn diagram would almost perfectly overlap – that what we need is a giant wall and maybe a voter ID law based on skin tone.
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Texas and
the myth of illegal immigrant voters.
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The president himself is quick to tweet: “58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote. These numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. All over the country, especially in California, voter fraud is rampant. Must be stopped. Strong voter ID! @foxandfriends[.]”
Then again, some of us remember these same scary stories from past years. First, if you read the entire article, you learned that a grand total of 33 people had been prosecuted for voter fraud in Texas in 2018. That’s out of a population of 16 million and we don’t even know if any were illegal immigrants.
We do know “33” is not as scary as “58,000.”
You can read a bit further and see that between 2005 and 2017 there were 97 prosecutions for the same crime. (See: 1/31/19.)
Finally, the reported 58,000 illegal votes were cast in
elections from 1996 through 2018. And if you’d like to see how “accurate” state
records have been in such matters in the past, consider Florida.
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Scary numbers! Less scary truths. |
Back in 2012, Florida announced that it was purging 186,000 non-citizens from its voting rolls.
Authorities went feverishly to work. First, they checked their original scary list and discovered that the actual number of non-citizens registered to vote was…2,600. Still too many!!!! Then they checked again. The list shrank to 198! Then they found out that among the tens of thousands of voters they had purged was a Brooklyn-born, decorated World War II vet.
That was embarrassing for everyone involved. Except the vet. He was plenty mad.
By the time Florida authorities cleaned up their records the 186,000 had shriveled to 85 cases, not a scary number at all.
For additional reading, it can be fun to consider the sterling record of Kris Kobach of Kansas, once the pillar of voter registration “reform.” Kobach was the foremost champion of purging voter rolls, supposedly weeding out millions and millions of illegals who went out and voted in 2016, in his state of Kansas and across the nation, very nearly throwing the election Hillary’s way.
And it came to pass, that as Kansas Secretary of State, Kobach wielded the Sword of Ballot Purity. He uncovered nine cases of Kansans voting illegally over four or five years, at least one of whom did so by mistake.
Those nine included two Republicans, if not more.
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WHILE REPUBLICANS stay busy trying to find Illegal Immigrant Waldo among the legit voters, Trump has a plan to make public schools great again.
Classes on the bible!
Is there any evidence he has ever read the Good Book, himself, or tried to live according to the teachings of Christ? If there is, this blogger is not seeing it; and he has read every word in that book. Including “Numbers.”
As noted by CBS News, on Monday Trump tweeted out
his support for the idea after his favorite show, Fox & Friends, ran
a segment on the topic. So you know the president has been thinking about the
bible a lot! “Numerous states introducing Bible Literacy classes, giving
students the option of studying the Bible. Starting to make a turn back?
Great!” he tapped away at his phone.
Christian lawmakers in several Republican-controlled state legislatures have been pushing for legislation that would allow public schools to offer elective classes on the New and Old Testaments.
I am thinking, does President Trump know what the bible says about the punishment for adulterers?
As a former history teacher this blogger would like to say that bible literacy is fine; but you should probably deal with it through church. Otherwise, do teachers have to say, “Look, class, every word of this book is literally true?” Or do they dare speak about the “figurative” nature of language?
Or can a public school teacher now up and say, “This story about Noah can’t possibly be true.” If the flood covered all the land, including Mt. Everest, and did it after forty days and forty nights of rain, then that would mean rain had to have been falling at the rate of 726 feet per day.
Finally, do Muslim or agnostic parents have to pay taxes so public schools can teach other parent’s kids about the bible?
Let
the pastors of the world address this topic themselves.
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