From the award winning Memory Division at YallPolitics . . .
In an article in the April 29 Clarion Ledger, Jerry Mitchell writes on reactions to the Supreme Court decision validating voter ID. Framing a quote from Sen. Terry Burton, my friend, Mr. Mitchell, asserts in the text of his article “Although there’s been no evidence of this kind of voter fraud in Mississippi, he (Burton) believes it’s high time to make such changes.”
Later in the piece, Senator David Jordan (D – Greenwood) lays out this doozy.
“We suffered for a long time,” he said. “We’re much better off today, but I want that process to continue since there is no evidence of voter fraud at the polls.”
Though no one can dispute the attrocities of civil rights abuses that Senator Jordan references in the first part of his quote, his connection of those attrocities to voter ID is not a valid one. And though there are many apologists for/supporters of voter fraud in the media, the YP Memory division brings forth three seperate instances of voter fraud that resulted in civil or criminal court action in just the last 12 months.
Here’s one instance of voter fraud (as reported in the Clarion Ledger) of the Benton County gang.
Here’s another (this one from Tunica County) from the August primary election this past year.
And, of course, our friend Ike Brown who was found to be guilty of disenfranching white voters in Noxubee county.
There you have it. Three documented cases of voter fraud in Mississippi in the last year, and not a peep about them in a capstone story about one of the most far reaching Supreme Court decisions in a while.
By the way, Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has been doing some speeches about voter fraud throughout the state. If you can catch his speech, it is well worth the time. He has done some fascinating research about voter integrity and how that correlates to economic development.
