The myth of 'voter suppression'

"Voter suppression."

You've heard this term used in the 2016 presidential campaign by Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

I must admit it, it sounds awful.

To listen to Clinton, Sanders, the entire Democratic Party, the NAACP and others using the phrase, you get the picture of qualified, eligible, citizen voters being turned away from polls because of their race, their socio-economic background or maybe their foreign accent.

If that's what you think when you hear the words "voter suppression," think again.

It's really a scare term employed to make vote fraud easier, so that the impact of eligible, registered voters is diminished.

Let me give you a couple recent examples of the way this vote fraud cartel known as the Democratic Party is trying to steal your vote.

In Virginia, Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the former chairman of the national Democratic Party, the chairman of Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign and the chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, restored the voting rights of more than 200,000 convicted felons, including murderers, rapists and other violent criminals – just in time for the 2016 election. The records of these criminals are effectively expunged, meaning they can serve on juries and if asked on job applications whether they were ever convicted of a felony they can legally say no.
The NAACP, another semi-official arm of the party, has announced it is appealing the ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina to uphold the state's 2013 law requiring photo identification by voters, claiming it is "one of the most restrictive voting laws" in the country.

Illegal aliens are routinely voting in so-called "sanctuary cities" and states not requiring proper identification or ensuring that only citizens are permitted to exercise their rights. Other "activists" are encouraged in organized efforts to vote multiple times whether registered or not – the law be damned.

This is not a matter of "extending rights"; it's an example of depriving the rights of eligible voters.

It's fraud. It's corruption. It's already impacting elections, but it will, sooner or later, spell the end of our system of representative government.

Long gone are the days when citizens were prevented from voting because of race, color or creed. Today, no one can stop you from voting if you follow the simple, reasonable and healthy rules of verification.

All you need is identification – the same kind you are required to present to get a driver's license, open a bank account, rent an apartment or get a job.

But to hear the catcalls of "voter suppression," you would think poll workers are unevenly applying reasonable rules designed to protect the sanctity of elections.

The hysteria and lies have reached levels of hyperbolic insanity in 2016.

And no one is effectively countering the disinformation. Have you heard any Republican presidential candidate raise the issue this year?

Do they not realize where this is leading?

This is about turning America to one-party rule like in the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea or some other totalitarian nation of the past or present.

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The political momentum is all on the side of the cheats, the frauds, the liars and the thieves.

Don't count on the elite news media to tell the truth about what's going on. It's merely an extension of the Democratic Party itself.

You probably didn't think "same-sex marriage" would become a reality, because most people were against it.

You probably didn't think men using women's bathrooms and vice versa would become a popular rallying cry throughout the nation, because most people were against it.

You probably didn't think America would have a president who routinely violated his oath of office, the law of the land and the Constitution's separation of powers to do whatever he wanted whenever he wanted, because most people were against it.

Think again. We're on the verge of losing our country's most important principles of fairness and equality because of a disingenuous slogan – "voter suppression."

When you hear that term, understand the advocates are actually in favor of "voter suppression." It's your vote they want to suppress.

And they're winning.

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