Seven Secretaries of State Criticize Michelle Obama for Claiming GOP Voter Suppression Occurred in the 2012 Election
by Hans A. von Spakovsky 12/14/2012
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Seven Secretaries of State have released a statement criticizing First Lady Michelle Obama for her false claim that Republicans engaged in voter suppression in the November election:
“Unfortunately the First Lady’s comments continue the baseless attacks that have been made upon those leaders who are simply taking reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of elections. This past election speaks for itself.
In Arizona, a state that has a photo ID requirement, Hispanic voter turnout was the highest in the state’s history. In Georgia, African American turnout has remained high in each election after the state adopted its photo ID requirement in 2006. In Kansas, another state with a photo ID requirement, a minuscule .07 percent of voters neglected to bring their IDs to the polls and all were given provisional ballots and opportunity to provide photo identification later.
These examples reflect what is happening in every state that is taking steps to protect the integrity of elections. No voter is impeded from voting. And more voters become engaged in their elections because they have greater confidence their votes will be counted accurately and not cancelled out by illegal votes.
That is why Americans overwhelmingly favor photo ID and other election security measures.”
Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State
Ken Bennett, Arizona
Brian Kemp, Georgia
Scott Gessler, Colorado
Jason Gant, South Dakota
Mark Martin, Arkansas
Tom Schedler, Louisiana
Hans A. von Spakovsky is a Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department. He is the coauthor of the book “Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk”.
37 Comments
1. David W
What else can you expect from the emperor’s wife? Anything that is done to prevent her husband from retaining his throne has to be evil and bad.
December 14, 2012 - 1:32 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Becca
I think that we should immediately hold a recount of all ballots. Notice how on issues of free speech, liberals want conservatives to shut up while conservatives want liberals to keep talking. We know by now that eventually, if we let them talk enough, liberals will either shove their foot so far down their throats that they can’t breath or we will be presented with an opportunity to make them eat their words. I think it’s definitely time for Mooch to eat her words (Lord knows she eats everything else in sight)!!
December 15, 2012 - 3:15 am Link to this Comment | Reply
2. chuck
The real issue in this election was the likely voter fraud consisting of many votes probably fraudulently cast for Obama, especially in swing states.
The lesson to be learned from the First Lady’s comments is that liberals, no matter how much they have, no matter how much control they have, no matter what will still try to be victims.
It’s time to stop cutting them slack and just do our best to see to it that they play by the same rules as everybody else.
December 14, 2012 - 1:42 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Victor Erimita
She’s not that deep. She’s just a talking parrot like her husband, reciting what she’s told by the little echo chamber deluded souls she listens to.
December 14, 2012 - 8:22 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
3. VAmom
Military voters on the other hand – yeah their vote was totally suppressed. And legitimate republican voters, yeah our vote was totally suppressed in our swing states by the high tidal wave of FRAUD that swamped our elections. Thanks for that, Michelle.
December 14, 2012 - 2:08 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
4. WALT C
When I saw the headline of her statement I thought she was admitting that the dems cheated by bussing Somalians from Michigan into Ohio to vote. But then I read the story.
December 14, 2012 - 2:10 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
5. Art Chance
One thing doesn’t change; the communists accusing us of what we know they’re doing.
December 14, 2012 - 2:26 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
dwdude
well stated and true…they accuse others of doing what they are already have been doing for a long time.
December 14, 2012 - 8:55 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
6. Bowen
– is a coward in California.
December 14, 2012 - 3:05 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
7. rick
Amazing that a First Lady can still claim “victomhood” status in the 21st century!
We’ve come So far…
December 14, 2012 - 3:18 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
8. Hank
Only one statement needs to be made to queen Michelle….”prove it!”
December 14, 2012 - 3:23 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
9. Butterfly McQueen
Mrs. Obama should take every available opportunity to shut up.
December 14, 2012 - 3:24 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Pam
Amen. It’s sad that the country has a first lady that’s in no respect a lady.
December 14, 2012 - 4:30 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
10. Jim
What the hell does Mo the Ho know? She can’t see beyond her next meal.
December 14, 2012 - 3:25 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
11. Lee Dodson
I think she should be taken so seriously that an investigation and total recount be initiated at the earliest possible time. This should include verification of all votes and voters on rolls. The election would become null and void, and a new one should be mounted immediately.
And Mrs. Obama should be careful what she asks of the government. I believe the results would be dramatically different because of what know (or don’t know) concerning Obamacare, Benghazi, the Arab Spring, failure to produce a budget.
Here’s where voter identification would allay her fears.
December 14, 2012 - 3:33 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Karensky
Absolutely spot on, we should keep after her, at least on the net, I have observed for decades that the Progs love to accuse of others what they, in fact, do.
December 14, 2012 - 4:04 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
DaveJ
Absolutely! To know what the Left/DNC is doing that is wrong, just check what they are accusing others of doing.
December 14, 2012 - 7:05 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
pestilential
Yes please.
December 14, 2012 - 6:06 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
12. patrick k
“Voter suppression” is just another code word for racism. This trump card gets played whenever the user wants to deflect attention from something else.
December 14, 2012 - 3:33 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Becca
DOG WHISTLE!!! RACIST!!! lol
December 15, 2012 - 3:08 am Link to this Comment | Reply
13. inspectorudy
Isn’t it strange that Dems always accuse people or institutions that oppose them of doing what they have been doing in every election since LBJ? How on this earth does a photo ID cause a problem for anyone trying to vote honestly? It looks like the foul odor from Obama has stuck to his wife.
Seven Secretaries of State Criticize Michelle Obama for Claiming GOP Voter Suppression Occurred in the 2012 Election
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Hans A. von Spakovsky
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December 14, 2012 - 1:19 pm
 
Seven Secretaries of State have released a statement criticizing First Lady Michelle Obama for her false claim that Republicans engaged in voter suppression in the November election:
“Unfortunately the First Lady’s comments continue the baseless attacks that have been made upon those leaders who are simply taking reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of elections. This past election speaks for itself.
In Arizona, a state that has a photo ID requirement, Hispanic voter turnout was the highest in the state’s history. In Georgia, African American turnout has remained high in each election after the state adopted its photo ID requirement in 2006. In Kansas, another state with a photo ID requirement, a minuscule .07 percent of voters neglected to bring their IDs to the polls and all were given provisional ballots and by Text-Enhance">opportunity to provide photo identification later.
These examples reflect what is happening in every state that is taking steps to protect the integrity of elections. No voter is impeded from voting. And more voters become engaged in their elections because they have greater confidence their votes will be counted accurately and not cancelled out by illegal votes.
That is why Americans overwhelmingly favor photo ID and other election security measures.”
Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State
Ken Bennett, Arizona
Brian Kemp, Georgia
Scott Gessler, Colorado
Jason Gant, South Dakota
Mark Martin, Arkansas
Tom Schedler, Louisiana
Hans A. von Spakovsky is a Senior Legal Fellow at The by Text-Enhance">Heritage Foundation and a former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department. He is the coauthor of the book “Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk”.
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37 Comments, 27 Threads
1. David W
What else can you expect from the emperor’s wife? Anything that is done to prevent her husband from retaining his throne has to be evil and bad.
December 14, 2012 - 1:32 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Becca
I think that we should immediately hold a recount of all ballots. Notice how on issues of free speech, liberals want conservatives to shut up while conservatives want liberals to keep talking. We know by now that eventually, if we let them talk enough, liberals will either shove their foot so far down their throats that they can’t breath or we will be presented with an opportunity to make them eat their words. I think it’s definitely time for Mooch to eat her words (Lord knows she eats everything else in sight)!!
December 15, 2012 - 3:15 am Link to this Comment | Reply
2. chuck
The real issue in this election was the likely voter fraud consisting of many votes probably fraudulently cast for Obama, especially in swing states.
The lesson to be learned from the First Lady’s comments is that liberals, no matter how much they have, no matter how much control they have, no matter what will still try to be victims.
It’s time to stop cutting them slack and just do our best to see to it that they play by the same rules as everybody else.
December 14, 2012 - 1:42 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Victor Erimita
She’s not that deep. She’s just a talking parrot like her husband, reciting what she’s told by the little echo chamber deluded souls she listens to.
December 14, 2012 - 8:22 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
3. VAmom
Military voters on the other hand – yeah their vote was totally suppressed. And legitimate republican voters, yeah our vote was totally suppressed in our swing states by the high tidal wave of FRAUD that swamped our elections. Thanks for that, Michelle.
December 14, 2012 - 2:08 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
4. WALT C
When I saw the headline of her statement I thought she was admitting that the dems cheated by bussing Somalians from Michigan into Ohio to vote. But then I read the story.
December 14, 2012 - 2:10 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
5. Art Chance
One thing doesn’t change; the communists accusing us of what we know they’re doing.
December 14, 2012 - 2:26 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
dwdude
well stated and true…they accuse others of doing what they are already have been doing for a long time.
December 14, 2012 - 8:55 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
6. Bowen
– is a coward in California.
December 14, 2012 - 3:05 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
7. rick
Amazing that a First Lady can still claim “victomhood” status in the 21st century!
We’ve come So far…
December 14, 2012 - 3:18 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
8. Hank
Only one statement needs to be made to queen Michelle….”prove it!”
December 14, 2012 - 3:23 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
9. Butterfly McQueen
Mrs. Obama should take every available opportunity to shut up.
December 14, 2012 - 3:24 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Pam
Amen. It’s sad that the country has a first lady that’s in no respect a lady.
December 14, 2012 - 4:30 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
10. Jim
What the hell does Mo the Ho know? She can’t see beyond her next meal.
December 14, 2012 - 3:25 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
11. Lee Dodson
I think she should be taken so seriously that an investigation and total recount be initiated at the earliest possible time. This should include verification of all votes and voters on rolls. The election would become null and void, and a new one should be mounted immediately.
And Mrs. Obama should be careful what she asks of the government. I believe the results would be dramatically different because of what know (or don’t know) concerning Obamacare, Benghazi, the Arab Spring, failure to produce a budget.
Here’s where voter identification would allay her fears.
December 14, 2012 - 3:33 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Karensky
Absolutely spot on, we should keep after her, at least on the net, I have observed for decades that the Progs love to accuse of others what they, in fact, do.
December 14, 2012 - 4:04 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
DaveJ
Absolutely! To know what the Left/DNC is doing that is wrong, just check what they are accusing others of doing.
December 14, 2012 - 7:05 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
pestilential
Yes please.
December 14, 2012 - 6:06 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
12. patrick k
“Voter suppression” is just another code word for racism. This trump card gets played whenever the user wants to deflect attention from something else.
December 14, 2012 - 3:33 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Becca
DOG WHISTLE!!! RACIST!!! lol
December 15, 2012 - 3:08 am Link to this Comment | Reply
13. inspectorudy
Isn’t it strange that Dems always accuse people or institutions that oppose them of doing what they have been doing in every election since LBJ? How on this earth does a photo ID cause a problem for anyone trying to vote honestly? It looks like the foul odor from Obama has stuck to his wife.
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