The Miami Herald reports that thousands of foreign citizens in South Florida might be illegally registered to vote and cast ballots in elections.
The potential problem is largest in Florida’s largest county: Miami-Dade, where the elections supervisor is examining 2,000 potentially unlawful voters, WFOR-CBS 4 News reported Tuesday. Broward is examining 260 suspected foreign voters. One suspected noncitizen voter has been registered for about 40 years, CBS 4 found. …The discovery of potentially unlawful voters is sure to fuel the partisan debate over voter fraud and voting rights. With 1.2 million registered voters in Miami-Dade, 2,000 potentially ineligible voters might not seem like a big number. However, it is more than enough to swing a close election in a state like Florida, where the 2000 presidential election was decided in favor of George W. Bush by 537 votes.
Monthly Archives: May 2012
State of Florida Probes Voting by Foreigners
The Miami Herald reports that thousands of foreign citizens in South Florida might be illegally registered to vote and cast ballots in elections.
The potential problem is largest in Florida’s largest county: Miami-Dade, where the elections supervisor is examining 2,000 potentially unlawful voters, WFOR-CBS 4 News reported Tuesday. Broward is examining 260 suspected foreign voters. One suspected noncitizen voter has been registered for about 40 years, CBS 4 found. …The discovery of potentially unlawful voters is sure to fuel the partisan debate over voter fraud and voting rights. With 1.2 million registered voters in Miami-Dade, 2,000 potentially ineligible voters might not seem like a big number. However, it is more than enough to swing a close election in a state like Florida, where the 2000 presidential election was decided in favor of George W. Bush by 537 votes.
More Fox News on “Disgusting and Shameful”
The headline is a bit overextended – “Eric Holder Staff Caught Smearing Mississippi”
More Fox News on “Disgusting and Shameful”
The headline is a bit overextended – “Eric Holder Staff Caught Smearing Mississippi”
Texas Not Relenting in Defense of Voter ID
Responding to a DC District Court scheduling order in the state’s lawsuit against the DOJ, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office said it is not relenting in its defense of Voter ID: “In an ongoing effort to prevent Texas from enforcing its Voter ID law during the November election, the DOJ and partisans who oppose the Voter ID law, have issued endless discovery requests seeking millions of records that have nothing to do with this case. . . The DOJ and their partisan allies need to end their fishing expedition and stop their attempts to deny Texas the same right to require the very same type of photo identification from voters that has already been upheld by the Supreme Court. The needless delays imposed by the opponents of Texas’ Voter ID law continue to prove that Justice Kennedy was correct when he noted that the Section 5’s preclearance requirements put Texas at a disadvantage compared to other states”. To keep the July 9 trial date, and the possibility of an August 31 decision and November implementation of Voter ID, Texas must produce relevant databases, non-privileged documents and emails by today, May 9.
FBI director testifies that AG Holder failed to report voter impersonation
FBI director Robert Mueller told Congress that he had never heard from Attorney General Eric Holder or anyone else about the incident that demonstrated the ease with which someone could impersonate another voter, even holder himself. link.
Par for the course.
Michelle Malkin Debunks the SCYTL Conspiracy
Thank Heavens for Michelle Malkin. She has written this piece debunking the conspiracy theorists who think the company SCYTL is going to alter the outcome of the 2012 election.
“Before conservatives go all Michael Moore-moonbatty, let’s calm down and separate voter fraud facts from fiction. There’s no time to waste worrying about manufactured scares. And there are plenty of legitimate threats to electoral integrity without having to inflate or concoct them.”
I couldn’t get around to doing the piece because it was so absurd that I didn’t want to waste precious time on it. Michelle does it instead. Incidently, Malkin is a true treasure. I had the pleasure of having lunch with her and another national treasure, Attorney General Ed Meese, week before last in Colorado Springs. She had some very insightful comments about American politics which perhaps I will find the time to write about.
Fox News on “Disgusting and Shameful”
Link here. “In a letter obtained by FoxNews.com, the Justice Department wrote back Hosemann on Tuesday clarifying that the Facebook post ‘does not represent the views of the department regarding Mississippi.’
Further, Voting Section Chief T. Christian Herren Jr. assured Hosemann that the department had ‘taken steps to ensure that this employee will not be assigned to matters involving the state of Mississippi for the time being.'”
Mississippi Tea Party Reacts to “Disgusting and Shameful”
Mark Mayfield, board member of the Mississippi Tea Party says it isn’t fair that Mississippi is subjected to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act after 50 years of progress.