James O’Keefe Voter ID video catches Congress’s eye

“It hardly inspires the public trust that a white twenty something can obtain the ballot of the first black attorney general of the United States,” said Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

The video shocked Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who expressed confusion as to why the attorney general has not responded to the ease of which O’Keefe was able to obtain his ballot.

The left’s campaign of intimidation against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has caused the group to back down on Voter ID laws and the Obama Justice Department has cracked down on such laws in South Carolina and Texas among others.

Nontheless, Rasmussen reports that Voter ID laws remain extremely popular. A recent poll found that 73 percent of Americans reject the notion pushed by the left that such laws discriminate.

Conservative groups such as Judicial Watch and the Republican National Lawyers Association have promised vigilance against voter fraud in the fall.

“I don’t know how anyone can object to the simple practice of showing voter identification to prove that you are who you say you are when you go vote,” Republican election attorney Cleta Mitchell told the subcommittee. “One of our RNLA members lives in the District of Columbia, and she got … five different names sent to her apartment.

“If she were not an honest person, she could just walk in and pretend to be each one of those people.”

The issue likely will become an important one in this election, especially in the wake of the passage of Voter ID laws in states such as Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Mitt Romney has vocally supported Voter ID laws and reiterated his support Monday during a campaign appearance with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in Pennsylvania.

The Voter ID laws in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island will be in play for the first time in today’s primaries.