Sometimes we Americans at large are insufficiently thankful for the kind of honest, overkilling gangsterism that some of our states, such as North Carolina, are imposing on a perfectly secure electorate.
In the aforementioned Tar Heel state, for instance, alleged voter fraud amounted to 0.000738 percent of its 2010 midterm ballots cast, while in 2012 the state racked up an equally unstaggering 0.00174 percent of alleged voter fraud. In other words, no problem.
Now your typical political gangster, intent on rubbing out any pesky opposition, would disingenuously plead a case that's simply not there. He would inflate the voter-fraud figures or blow out of all proportion some particularly egregious past instance of fraud, or something like that. But not NC's House Speaker, Thom Tillis of Mecklenburg. No sir, here's a hooligan who tells it like it is:
There is some voter fraud, but that's not the primary reason for doing this.... [T]here are a lot of people who are just concerned with the potential risk of fraud.
OK, so he fudged a little. He really meant to say there are a lot of Republicans who are concerned with the potential risk of a massive democratic turnout (small d intended), which is of course inimical to the ruling State's ideology. But give him a break--the atypical honesty he did muster is refreshing: this voter-fraud bill has nothing to do with actual voter fraud.
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