Want to Be “More Like Europe,” Dems? Institute Voter ID

For years we’ve heard from a certain population segment and ideological set that we should, essentially, be “more like Europe.” We should have Europe’s nationalized healthcare. We should have Europe’s gun-control laws. We should have Europe’s taxation. We should have Europe’s environmental regulations. But the one way in which we could be and should be like Europe, the very same people recoil at.

That is, requiring voter ID.

One-hundred percent or close to 100 percent of European countries require photographic voter ID. (The rare exceptions are a few nations that may allow non-photo alternatives or vouching in specific situations. But photo ID remains the norm.)

This is the worldwide standard, too. In fact, approximately 95-plus percent of representative-government countries require voter ID to cast an in-person ballot. What’s more, analyzing 246 global electoral jurisdictions, the Comparative Voter ID Law index found that 70.7 percent of them have the strictest form: mandatory photo ID cards.

Then there’s the United States, where, some may be tempted to say, our system is downright Third World-like.

Except that’s not true — because virtually 100 percent of Third World representative-government nations also require voter ID. Again, too, the photographic variety is the norm.

So where does that leave the U.S.? It’s hard to say, because even people 2,500 years ago in ancient Athens knew who were casting the ballots. But, for sure, it makes us unique.

That is, we’re perhaps the world’s only land with a major party dead against voter ID. Why, a cynic could almost suspect that this party, the Democrats, has a vested interest in opposing election security.

The Poor Can’t Get ID?

Of course, the anti-voter ID crowd claim that requiring identification would “disenfranchise” voters. Some poor people just can’t acquire ID, is the idea (though they manage to when applying for taxpayer handouts). Why, we even hear that voter ID is “racist.”

Addressing this today in “Voting Without ID: An American Anomaly,” commentator Delise Tattum refutes the “poor idiot” notion. She writes:

India, the world’s largest democracy, issues voter ID cards to hundreds of millions of citizens scattered across vast rural regions where poverty levels are far higher than in America. Brazil requires voters to present identification alongside their voter registration card. Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Kenya, Peru, South Africa and the Philippines all rely on voter identification systems as well.

Many of these countries administer elections across remote villages, limited infrastructure, and large populations living in poverty. Yet they still manage to verify who is casting a ballot.

So, put simply, we’re supposed to believe that poor blacks and Hispanics in Africa and Latin America can obtain ID. But far richer “poor” blacks and Hispanics in the U.S. somehow cannot? How does that work?

Interestingly, too, the Barack Obama administration provided millions of dollars in electoral integrity support years ago to Kenya. Among other things, these funds helped advance voter ID processes. Yet Obama opposes voter ID laws in the U.S.

None of this makes any sense, you say? It actually makes perfect sense. You see, American leftists don’t oppose voter ID because they believe it doesn’t provide election security.

They oppose it because precisely because they know it does.

Why else would they hiss at legislation supported by a whopping 83 percent of the American public?

The Vote-fraud Cartel

Just two days ago, senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) admitted on the Senate floor that illegal aliens do vote in our elections. Yet it’s something, they added, that hardly ever happens. Well, that’s a start. As the popular meme goes:

So at least Schumer and Warnock have graduated to Step 2 of the emergence-from-a-delusive-narrative process. If you really want the truth, however, just listen to what Democrats say when they think nobody is listening.

Consider left-wing operative and professional election fraudster Scott Foval, caught confessing to vote fraud on hidden video in 2016. “It’s a very easy thing for Republicans to say, ‘Well, they’re bussing people in,’” he stated. “Well, you know what? We’ve been bussing people in to deal with you f*****g a******s for 50 years, and we’re not going to stop now.” (Video below. Warning: foul language.)

Then there was Democrat Alan Schulkin, who, while NYC’s election commissioner, was also caught on hidden video in 2016.

“I think there is a lot of voter fraud,” he said. “They get buses and they move people around.”

“Yeah, they should ask for your ID,” Schulkin also confessed (video below).

But, hey, what do these guys know? They’re only Democrats perpetrating the fraud or intimately involved with election processes.

More Tales From the Crypt — of a Republic’s Death

Unfortunately, too, the above only scratches the surface of a problem exceeding one article’s exposition. But here are a few more examples:

• Mail-in vote fraud was discovered during a May 12, 2020 special election between two Democrats in Paterson, New Jersey. It was so bad, too, that a judge ordered a new election must be held.
• A judge also had to order a new election in 2023 for the Democratic mayoral primary in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Ballot stuffing had been exposed.
• Also in 2023, a Democrat in Mississippi accused another Democrat of vote fraud.

Now, is it reasonable saying that Democrats would cheat each other — but they wouldn’t defraud Republicans?

More examples still:

There’s far more, too, but this isn’t a book. And the point:

Is it rational to say, as the Democratic establishment does, that vote fraud is negligible at worst?

And Elon Musk, forwarding a January X post (below) illustrating nations with voter ID, explained the departure from rationality’s purpose.