Recalls and Voting Patterns

Good news today as a couple of anti-gun Colorado state senators are recalled by the voters.  Ed Morrissey gives a nice rundown of it on Hotair.

Morrissey quotes from Sean Sullivan of the Washington Post:

The particulars of Tuesday’s elections prompted some gun-control advocates to argue that the results shouldn’t be over-read. For one thing, voters didn’t receive mail ballots automatically, a substantial change of protocol in a state where the majority of voters cast their votes via mail.

Automatic mail ballots.  You wonder why Colorado became a blue state?  Why an anti-immigration candidate like Tancredo would lose the governor's race to Hickenlooper?  That's your answer.

They call it Election Day for a reason.  All this early voting, voting and registering by mail and the other shenanigans pulled in the name of "voting rights" are means of enhancing fraud.  The left always screams that there is no fraud.  That's really easy to say if the rolls and the votes cannot be audited.

The best thing that can be done for freedom in this country is for every state to pass a law requiring a picture ID for voting.  The next step would be to limit voting to election day, and require people to register and vote in person unless their are mitigating circumstances for absentee voting.

I have voted absentee when I knew I would be out of town.  My mother-in-law used to vote absentee every election because she was home-bound.  The county clerks have no problem dealing with the exceptions.  That's what they are elected to do.  But voting by mail as a normal process is an invitation to stuff the ballot box.

Anyone too lazy and unmotivated to get a photo ID, and too indolent to vote on election day or file a legitimate absentee ballot, does not deserve a vote.