Democrats and their entire left-wing apparatus seem to regard the requirement to produce a government-issued photo ID to vote as the equivalent to waterboarding.

Even if you disagree with them, it’s not just the lack of photo ID in many states that enables voter fraud when somebody can cast a ballot without actually proving who they are. It’s the country’s lax voter procedures generally.

This includes the primitive process for registering to vote in he first place. Add to that absentee ballots, provisional ballots, late-discovered ballots, same-day registration, voters on the rolls in more than one state, walking around money, illegal aliens voting, corrupt government officials facilitating shenanigans, and all the rest of it that enables voter fraud chicanery that is currently in play in Florida, Arizona, Georgia, and elsewhere. This is inexcusable in any high-tech, economically advanced country.

The federal Motor-Voter law signed by Bill Clinton plus states that grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants is a double-dose of potential voter fraud. The Daily Caller reported that California officials have already admitted that about 1,500 undocumented immigrants were registered to vote. That’s probably the tip of the iceberg. Vote fraud is probably what has helped make the formerly Golden State reliably blue.

Even in states where photo ID is mandatory, certain alternative documents, as sketchy as the might be, are acceptable.

The GOP needs to adopt a far more aggressive posture,  because voter fraud is the ultimate form of voter suppression especially in close elections. The goal is that every legal vote should count.

Even Mexico requires a tamper-proof photo ID to vote.

As one of many examples, voter fraud, and inadequate Republic lawyering arguably resulted in Saturday Night Live‘s Stuart Smalley (a.k.a. Al Franken) becoming a U.S. Senator. Democrats stole “B-1 Bob” Dornan’s Orange County, Calif., House seat back in 1996. Questions have even been raised about JFK’s victory over Nixon in 1960.

To function in day-to-day life, you need to have a photo ID. As an aside, have you ever met an American citizen out in the real world that was incapable of obtaining a photo ID at the DMV? For the left to claim otherwise is to fundamentally disrespect their fellow citizens. In some states, the DMV or equivalent agency will even come to you.

Even stoners who need a “cannabis card” in states that have legalized or partially marijuana seem to have no problem providing photo identification so that they can make purchases at pot dispensaries.

The media’s approach to voter fraud is yet another example of the Mamet Principle. Playwright/filmmaker David Mamet famously opined that “In order to continue advancing their illogical arguments modern liberals have to pretend not to know things…”

With that in mind, in The Federalist, Mollie Hemingway weighs in on the Broward debacle.

“Florida voters elected Republican Ron DeSantis as governor and Republican Rick Scott as senator on election night. Both were announced as winners and DeSantis’ opponent conceded defeat. But then Democratic lawyer Marc Elias announced that Democrats would be going for a recount and would win the Senate seat.

“A few days after the 2018 election was held, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sounded the alarm about serious irregularities in the counting of ballots in two Democratic stronghold counties in Florida…

“To make sure that votes aren’t being invented or destroyed to effect an outcome, one of the first priorities of any election supervisor is to announce how many ballots are in possession and how many remain to be counted. To fail to do this, as the Broward County and Palm Beach County Supervisors had, is to open themselves up to the accusation of massive vote fraud.

“Citizens can not have confidence that ballots are not being destroyed, or created, when supervisors fail to immediately announce how many ballots are on hand.

“Florida law also requires that vote-by-mail and absentee ballots are accounted for within 30 minutes of polls closing. While the other 65 counties in Florida had no problem following this state law, the supervisors of Broward County and Palm Beach County refused to follow that law…

“Despite these stunning violations of law, and Rubio’s cry to stop the madness in these counties that have a history of election problems, media seemed largely uninterested in what was happening in Florida…A media that were something other than the communications leaders of the progressive movement would note that Palm Beach County is violating Florida law by refusing to provide required information to the public, and by illegally refusing to allow officials into the ballot counting area to observe what is occurring.”

Citing media outlets’ Twitter accounts that downplayed the wrongdoing, Hemingway added the following:

“To be clear, these are not the stories and social media accounts of official Democratic partisans, but the accounts and stories of a media that is desperate to not be thought of as ‘fake news.’ A media that is desperate to make the case that they are something other than partisan hacks who care about elevating Democrats and harming Republicans above all other journalistic concerns. If you see even an ounce of daylight between these narrative constructions and those of Democrats, please share. Because to the naked eye, this is nothing but pure gaslighting about the obvious efforts of two of the most historically scandal-ridden counties in the country when it comes to elections and voting.”

Others have pointed out that the Hurricane-ravaged Panhandle counties managed to get all their voting results in on time after the election  in compliance with Florida law.

Even Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein, no friend of Trump or the Republican Party, thinks that Broward County is corrupt.

When all the counting is done, is it possible that Arizona is going to elect a far-left extremist to the U.S. Senate instead of U.S. Air Force war hero Martha McSally?