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I will be speaking at the Tulane Law School at 5pm Wednesday.  The topic will be the Justice Department’s lawsuit against the Jindal Adminstration under Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act.  I will have some interesting details about the DOJ investigation.  While the DOJ has brought a Section 7 lawsuit against the state to crank up voter registration in welfare agencies and government aid offices, it is ignoring manifest problems in Louisiana regarding over-inflated voter rolls.  Section 8 is the provision of the same law that gives the DOJ the power to force clean-ups of inflated voter rolls.

Are voter rolls in Louisiana inflated and therefore might a Section 8 investigation lie?  Yes.  Five parishes have more registered voters than there are citizens old enough to vote.  According to data made available in the Election Assistance Commission NVRA survey from the 2010 election, they are:

Cameron Parish:    118% of citizens older than 18 are registered to vote.
Tensas Parish: 108%
St. Helena Parish: 104%
St. Bernard Parish: 102%
Orleans Parish: 101%

Rumor has it that DOJ might finally be changing the policy articulated by the former Deputy Assistant Attorney General (that no Section 8 investigations would be approved).  If the policy is changed, and the DOJ were to finally start enforcing the law after a three year slumber, it would be a good thing.

 Hastings Star.  30 felon voting charges in Minnesota:

Charged with voting while ineligible were John Robert Albertson, 45; Ryan Richard Halvorson, 21; and Mathew John Kluck, 21. Charged with registering to vote while ineligible was Michael Patrick McAlpin, 18.

At the link, some unkind words for conservatives from Representative Jerrold Nadler. 

Nadler successfully regurgitated all his talking points for the last 5 years.  There were quite a few outdated ones invoking the Bush Administration.  Some real oldies but will bring back the memories.  However, when confronted with why Democrats in Rhode Island and elsewhere would support photo ID if it was so bad, Nadler suddenly feigned any knowledge of that law.  Uh huh. 

Apparently, there has been no talking points designed to explain that rogue Democratic suppression team. 

A story on the recent FedSoc panel on voter fraud. Excerpts below:

Moderated by U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Judge Thomas Griffith, the four panelists sparred over whether requiring photo identification would help or hurt the election process. Griffith said that allegations of election fraud have been part of the political conversation for centuries in the United States, but that advances in technology – the rise of electronic voting systems, for instance – and shifts in policy mean “these issues are not only a matter of history.”

and: Hans Von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow and manager at the Heritage Foundation, said requiring IDs at the polls would not only stop duplicate voting, but would also make it harder for undocumented immigrants to vote as well. Spakovsky noted that in Rhode Island, which recently adopted a photo ID requirement, the measure was supported by a Democratic state legislature.

George Washington University Law School Professor Spencer Overton said requiring voters to show some form of identification at the polls is inevitable, but the debate should be over what type of identification and, if photo IDs are required, whether there are ways to allow eligible voters without a photo ID to vote. Overton drew groans from a disapproving crowd when he proposed a hypothetical compromise to Fund – require photo IDs but allow same-day voter registration.

A truly sad story of the dramatic impact of redistricting in Massachusetts. 

Beacon Hill’s new congressional map is prompting U.S. Rep. William Keating to flee his recently adopted home in Quincy to take up residency in a new Cape Cod and South Coast district after lawmakers pitted him against veteran Southie congressman Stephen F. Lynch.

So the new lines require the incumbent, Representative William Keating, to flee to his Cape Cod home.  Don’t leave the Monet behind!  I would safely guess that Keating is not part of the 99%; however, his temporary refugee status has got to be very uncomfortable.

In an effort to describe voter fraud (which we all know doesn’t exist), the online version of the Pueblo Chieftain uses more traditional language to characterize the irregularities. 

At the link:  Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler
continues to be concerned about the problems posed by mail election
ballots. So are we.

   Mr. Gessler contends that opportunities for abuse — read that,
fraud — increase in mail-in ballots. “Mail can go to addresses
where people no longer live,” he said last week.

   Indeed. One Puebloan reported that her son, who has been out of
the couple’s home for a few years and thus is an inactive voter in
Pueblo, was mailed a ballot in this month’s election. It would have
been simple for the father to forge the son’s signature and return
the ballot.

This from the Daily Camera in Colorado:

A Boulder County Jail inmate awaiting trial on attempted murder charges says jail officials disenfranchised him and should do more to make inmates aware of their voting rights.

At the link, the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP), the agency responsible within DOD for assisting overseas military voters, has awarded New York a multi-million dollar grant in an effort to streamline the electronic transmission of blank ballots to over 40,000 voters. 

This grant appears to be the largest awarded to any state or counties and works out to approximately $62 dollars per voter.  Such a large award to New York is highly questionable as New York has not even complied with the MOVE Act and are, in fact, seeking another controversial waiver for the 2012 election.  Once again, New York seeks to go through a series of federal elections in 2012 without having to comply with the MOVE Act, yet the Department of Defense is handing over $2.5 million to a state with dysfunctional electoral processes.   

The same New York violated the MOVE Act in 2010 and, not suprisingly, had the largest number of voters disenfranchised in 2010 with ballots returned late.  In 2010, the state of New York rejected nearly one-third of all absentee ballots from military voters, primarily because they didn’t provide enough time for the ballots to be returned.

The same New York has filed yet another waiver request with FVAP to go through another Presidential election without providing overseas military voters adequate time to return and have their ballots counted.  The New York waiver request from 2010 can be found here.  Even after approval of this waiver and adjustment of timelines, New York promptly violated the waiver agreement and failed to send ballots to thousands of voters.

The same New York that should already have established electronic methods to transmit blank ballots to overseas voters.  This grant begs the question why grant monies are now being spent to provide this technology when they should already be utilizing it.

The same New York that was sued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) a year ago for failing to set a primary date that would allow 45 days for the mailing of absentee ballots to overseas voters.  A year later, there is still no progress on that litigation front as New York fights to remain the #1 disenfranchiser of military and overseas voters.   

At the Baltmore Sun:

The votes are in, and the results are clear: Baltimore’s general election was a nearly complete waste of time, money and effort.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake got about 84 percent of the measly 45,000 votes that were cast. Among the City Council races, only one was close. In most of the rest, the winners of the Democratic primary ran up margins that would make dictators holding sham elections envious. One incumbent, Sharon Green Middleton, got 98 percent of the vote.

This exercise cost city taxpayers about $1.5 million, or more than $33 per voter.