The Democrats Plan to Transform America

By Ken Blackwell The election high point this century for Democrats was 2008. They took the White House and Congress. They then hoped to addict Americans to government-provided medicine causing people to vote Democratic forever. But the plan failed. Since then Republicans have won most elections. Not just nationally for president and Congress but also for governor state legislatures and other state and local offices. However Democrats thought 2016 was the election they could not lose. But lose it they did. The presidency along with Congress and a record number of state governments. Which has made them desperate. Obviously Democrats are out of sync with the American people. Most Americans want to restrain government and keep more of their money. They believe in a strong military and defense in killing not appeasing terrorists. They dont want stupid regulations and high taxes to get in the way of economic growth and job creation. Instead of listening to the people Democrats are trying to get different people to vote. It doesnt matter if the people are actually eligible to vote. All they need do is cast ballots for Democrats. This process is going on in Pennsylvania. First Democrats gained a stranglehold over the state supreme court. Democratic justices believe their job is to overrule the peoples representatives whenever the Democrats lose. Second after routinely gerrymandering elections in their favor when in power Democrats now express shock to learn that politics influences legislatures. The Democratic answer is for the courts to seize control of the redistricting process. Pennsylvanias Democratic court majority imposed a plan that was even more favorable to Democrats than that pushed by the Democratic Party. Third the Democratic governor is pushing reforms" which would reverse Republican victories by putting Democrats in charge of redistricting and inviting illegal and fraudulent votes in future elections. If you cant win based on the districts and people you have change the districts and people! Gov. Tom Wolfs first idea is for a nonpartisan commission to draw election maps. The idea may sound appealing to take politics out of redistricting. But drawing legislative lines is inherently political. There is no such thing as an independent objective panel. Most so-called experts have opinions. And someone political must choose the supposedly independent" members of whatever commission or other body is created. It is impossible take politics out of well politics. While politics is sometimes unseemly it does ultimately allow accountability. Moreover it is transparent: we know who is making the decision. That is better than allowing partisans to pose as modern Vestal Virgins. Even more insidious is Gov. Wolfs proposal to abandon standards for registering to vote. He would allow election-day registration and automatically sign up anyone who applies for a drivers license or other government service. Finally he would allow anyone to use an absentee ballot without an excuse. All of these changes would be convenient but convenience is not the appropriate standard for elections. Even a cursory review of registration rolls nationwide shows widespread error and fraudnon-citizens and the dead voting for instance. Lawsuits filed by the American Civil Rights Union have exposed how little many local officials do to protect the votes of their citizens. Yet the Democratic Party attempts to thwart even modest measures designed to ensure election integrity. Simply showing a photo ID is considered too onerous for would-be voters. All of Wolfs proposals intentionally or not would enable and actually encourage more fraudulent voting. Same day registration creates chaos for registrars at the very moment their focus should be on balloting. More importantly there would be no verification of eligibility. Non-citizens routinely get drivers licenses. Partisan activists manipulate unregulated use of absentee ballots. If fraud is later discovered it will be too late. Then the newly elected Democrats can even help cover up the process. Gov. Wolf talked of bringing the states electoral process into the 21st century. Actually hes proposing a big leap backward into the 19th century when vote fraud was rife. Instead officials at all levels should work to improve the safeguarding of our election process. The foundation for American democracy is free and honest elections. Without that the American people understandably will lose faith in their government. No doubt in the future Democrats will again win the presidency and control of Congress. The latter could come as soon as seven months. But if so Democrats should win honestly through legal votes cast in the ballot box.