Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote?

Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are particularly open to demagoguery and bribery.

Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country — which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote.

A decade before the Motor-Voter law that required states to register voters at welfare offices was enacted, NAACP official Joe Madison explained the political economy of voter registration drives.

‘When people are standing in line to get cheese and butter or unemployment compensation, you don’t have to tell them how to vote,’ said Madison, now a radio talk show host in Washington, D.C. ‘They know how to vote.’

Like Madison, Barack Obama grasped this basic truth when he worked for ACORN’s Project Vote affiliate in 1992.

‘All our people must know that politics and voting affects their lives directly,’ the future president said. ‘If we’re registering people in public housing, for an example, we talk about […]