Heritage Scholar: Perdue Comments Ironic For Governor That Vetoed Voter ID

Heritage Scholar Hans A. von Spavosky hits Gov. Perdue for her hypocrisy regarding Voter ID in light of her recent controversial comments. From the National Review Online’s the Corner:

Besides being anti-democratic, Perdue’s proposal is also quite ironic. At the end of June, Perdue issued a press release trying to justify her veto of a voter-ID bill passed by the state legislature. In it, she said that the “right to choose our leaders is among the most precious freedoms we have — both as Americans and North Carolinians. North Carolinians who are eligible to vote have a constitutionally guaranteed right to cast their ballots, and no one should put up obstacles to citizens exercising that right.” She also erroneously claimed that the bill would “unnecessarily and unfairly disenfranchise many eligible and legitimate voters.”

Contrary to Perdue’s mistaken claim, voter-ID requirements have been proven — in the courtroom and the polling place— to pose no obstacles to voting. The same cannot be said of suspending elections in violation of the Constitution. Talk about your insurmountable obstacle to Americans being able to “choose our leaders” and “exercising that right” to vote. And it wouldn’t just disenfranchise “many” voters, it would disenfranchise all voters.

Exactly right. Our democratic process may be messy, and our Congress isn’t always responsive to the nation’s problems, but regular, fraud-free elections are the best way to correct our leaders’ errors.

Von Spavosky was recently in North Carolina to give a talk at the John Locke Foundation rebutting the arguments against Voter ID laws. Video of his speech is avaible via the Carolina Journal.