Can I Get A “Hell Yeah!”

Or at least a “Whoop Whoop”?

Today the U.S. Supreme Court voted unanimously to overturn a recent Ninth Circuit decision barring the enforcement of an Arizona voter ID law. Enacted in 2004 by citizen initiative, the law required proof of citizenship for new voter registrations and photo identification at the polls. Both the Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF) and Secretary of State Sam Reed have recommended this law as a model for Washington to follow, and today’s decision underscores the legality of such requirements.

The Court chided the Ninth Circuit for acting without having all the proper facts, and for interfering right before a major election.

Regarding the merits of voter ID laws, the Court did not make a specific ruling but noted that: “Confidence in the integrity of our electoral processes is essential to the functioning of our participatory democracy. Voter fraud drives honest citizens out of the democratic process and breeds distrust of our government.”

How strange that it is the very people who claim to have no confidence in election results fighting to overturn this voter approved law.

In fact, the AP/Ipsos people took a poll which said

Vote count doubts strong in U.S., Italy, Mexico - Poll: Recent contested elections left voters feeling cheated

Count on close, contentious elections to stir up public distrust in the vote count.

That could be why people in the United States, Italy and Mexico had the lowest levels of confidence in the vote count among nine countries in AP-Ipsos polling taken just weeks before the U.S. midterm elections. Fewer than two-thirds in each of the three countries said they were confident the vote count would be accurate.

That’s lower than in the other countries polled – Canada, France, Germany, South Korea, Spain and the United Kingdom, where three-fourths or more in each country felt the vote count is accurate.

But no matter how they cry, and they will cry, the leftists can do nothing more about it.

They rely on the courts for their favorable rulings, it is about time the American citizenry got a decision in their favor.

Original link found at Sound Politics