# Voter ID Laws: Necessary to combat rampant fraud or subtle subjugation of the Democratic demographic

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**Created:** [May 24, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voter-id-laws-necessary-to-combat-rampant-fraud-or-subtle-subjugation-of-the-democratic-demographic/622971 "2012-05-24T17:25:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voter-id-laws-necessary-to-combat-rampant-fraud-or-subtle-subjugation-of-the-democratic-demographic/622971/730 "2012-06-11T17:55:00Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> [Senator Kirk and the Constitutionality of Expedient Law Switching - Great Debates - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=535056)
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> I believe that the word “sordid” are widely accepted to be a “negative thing”. Your groveling apology is presumed, and gracefully accepted.

Here’s your entire post. This post is supposed to be you saying that the Democrats did something negative?

> [@Senator Kirk and the Constitutionality of Expedient Law Switching](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-kirk-and-the-constitutionality-of-expedient-law-switching/512967/12):
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> I’m a big fan of moral parity, the balancing of the ying-yang, karma. When the Pubbies have power (as recently demonstrated), they behave with sublime indifference to any such civic considerations, they grasp for power by means legitimate, illegitimate, and downright illegal.
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> Balance. If the Dems run totally roughshod over the Pubbies, ride 'em and spank 'em for a couple of years, three maybe, then the balance may be restored.
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> The Pubbies bluffed, and got called. They refused any accomodation to the facts, and dared the Dems to commit a sordid and partisan act. The Dems called, they rake in the pot and now the Pubbies play the only card they got: they blubber the tears crockidilian of the dreadful display of corruption and immorality, the little drops splashing on their freshly-starched communion dress.
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> C’mon. Who’s kidding who, here?
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> The point of such legal formalities is to protect the will of the people, no? Does anyone seriously doubt that the will of the people of Massachussets is to have a Dem take Kennedy’s seat?
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> If an action be perfectly legal and thwarts the will of the people, it is not legitimate. By the same token, if an action manifests that will, it carries a legitimacy. The Pubbies could have avoided this outcome by shrugging and accepting the inevitable, maybe pick up a small bargaining chip, maybe win Miss Congeniality, something like that.
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> But they made a fight out of it hoping for just this result, perhaps in their mind this balances out trying to corrupt the Justice Dept, I dunno. But now they get to piss and moan, bitch and perform about this travesty yadda-blah, yadda-blah…
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> Feh! as they say in Lubbock.

As God said to Noah, in Bill Cosby’s telling of it… “Riiiiight…”

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