Former Dem. congressman makes U-turn on voter ID laws, says ballot fraud common

Democratic groups pushing to invalidate voter ID laws have ignored Davis’s defection from their party line. The Brennan Center for Law and Justice, for example, has not commented on Davis’s admissions. Neither Common Cause nor the National Council of La Raza has mentioned it on their websites.

The silence isn’t surprising, Gessler said, because the left’s opposition to voter ID laws is driven by expectations of partisan advantage, not concerns about honest voting.

“The left will say you can’t show me any fraud. And when you show fraud, then they saw that fraud wan’t organized. And now and again we’re able to show organized fraud,” he said.

“Then they say this organized fraud didn’t effect the outcome of the election.” he said. “That takes a long time to prove, and by the time you do that, they say this is all old news and we should be talking about how to get [more] people to vote.”

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