the ballot. mr. mccotter feels terrible about the state of his petitions. he doesn t know how it happened. he wants state investigators to find whoever betrayed his campaign by filing such obviously fraudulent nominating signatures. michigan has some clerical errors and a congressman whose nominating petitions are a wreck. what it does not seem to have is much voter fraud. people who are not supposed to vote will be stopped by these bills. regardless, michigan has gotten closer to making voting harder after the house approved three bills yesterday tightening requirements for casting a ballot. the bills passed along party lines, new requirements for voter registration drives passed with 66 votes. that is important because under the michigan state constitution, you need a two-thirds majority for a bill to become law right away. that s 73 votes. not 66. if you have 73 votes, the constitution says you can put the law into effect immediately.
in fact, obvious fraud. he did not, in fact, have enough ballot signatures to qualify for the ballot. mr. mccotter feels terrible about the state of his petitions. he doesn t know how it happened. he wants state investigators to find whoever betrayed his campaign by filing such obviously fraudulent nominating signatures. michigan has some clerical errors and a congressman whose nominating petitions are a wreck. what it does not seem to have is much voter fraud. people who are not supposed to vote will be stopped by these bills. regardless, michigan has gotten closer to making voting harder after the house approved three bills yesterday tightening requirements for casting a and n polls lately in michigan a survey out last week found him in a statistical tie with barack obama. so it s true. every vote does count in a race like this. the question is whether every voter will actually get to vote. joining us now is reverend david, pastor of the greater st. matthew baptist church, president
new restrictions for casting a ballot and get less voter fraud. that s the argument that seems to make sense. except as in so many states where lawmakers fulminate about voter fraud there does not appear to be much voter fraud in michigan. last month the republican secretary of state s office reported more than 1,000 dead people and 100 prisoners appear to have cast ballots in michigan between october 2008 and june 2011. but the audit showed these were not cases of voter fraud. they were clerical errors. quote, in every instance where it appears a deceased person or incarcerated person voted and local records were available, a clerical error was established as the reason. if you want to find evidence of election fraud in michigan, you might actually start with some of the michigan republicans. specifically republican congressman thaddeus mccotter who dropped out of the race after his campaign filed nominating petitions with pages of signatures, quote, unprecedented level of fraud.
he s got, i don t know, cliff notes toward a health care plan. in april 2008, john mccain laid out his health care plan. at its core was a major change to the way we tax health care. right now employers don t pay a dime of taxes on health care benefits. this tax break is fundamentally the foundation of our entire health care system. it s why so many of us get health care through our employers. a lot of people, myself included, think it is a cracked bad foundation, in fact. mccain proposed to eliminate it and replace it with a $2,500 tax credit for individuals and for families irrespective of employment status. he got killed. independent experts noted the plan would make health care more expensive for employers which would make them likely to drop health care coverage for employees. it was the obama campaign that made mccain pay. they attacked it as, wait for it, a tax increase. john mccain talks about a $5,000 tax credit for health care, but here s what he s not telling you
at its core was a major change to the way we tax health care. right now employers don t pay a dime of taxes on health care benefits. this tax break is fundamentally the foundation of our entire health care system. it s why so many of us get health care through our employers. a lot of people, myself included, think it is a cracked bad foundation, in fact. mccain proposed to eliminate it and replace it with a $2,500 tax credit for individuals and for families irrespective of employment status. he got killed. independent experts noted the plan would make health care more expensive for employers which would make them likely to drop health care coverage for employees. it was the obama campaign that made mccain pay. they attacked it as, wait for it, a tax increase. john mccain talks about a $5,000 tax credit for health care, but here s what he s not telling you. mccain would make you pay income tax on your health insurance benefits. taxing health benefits for the first time ever.