Another case the voter fraud deniers will ignore:

“A Dothan woman facing eight felony absentee ballot fraud charges pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon to reduced misdemeanor charges.

Janice Lee Hart, 64, pleaded guilty about midway through the prosecution’s evidence to eight misdemeanor counts of attempted absentee ballot fraud.”

Eight felonies? Certainly that merits jail, right?  Guess again.

“Circuit Court Judge Brad Mendheim sentenced Hart to 12 months in the Houston County Jail for each charge, which he suspended in favor of two years probation for each charge.

Yahoo: “The president of the Navajo Nation was sworn in Tuesday to continue as the tribe’s top leader — even though he badly lost his re-election bid.

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Tribal lawmakers were sworn in during a public ceremony nearby in Fort Defiance that was broadcast live online. Speakers at the event hardly mentioned the presidential election that was thrown into turmoil after Chris Deschene, one of the winners in last August’s primary, was disqualified in a language-fluency case.”

Language fluency?

It turns out that the Navajo Nation has a literacy test of sorts for candidates.  If you want to run for office, you must be able to read and write and speak in Navajo.  Under Section 201 of the Voting Rights Act, it is illegal nationwide to require a voter to “(1) demonstrate the abilityto read, write, understand, or interpret any matter, (2) demonstrate any educational achievement or his knowledge of any particular subject.”  Section 4 also bans literacy tests for voters.

It seems the Navajo nation has candidate requirements that I suspect if a state imposed, would face all sorts of criticism.  The Navajos are probably seeking to preserve their language heritage and have imposed this requirement on candidates.  If a state passed a law requiring English literacy for candidates to preserve the English language heritage, it would certainly be attacked in newspapers and in the courts.  The Navajos have power to run tribal elections, of course. and are treated as a separate sovereign nation.

Wall Street Journal: “Mr. Scalise is the third-ranking leader in the House. If he wants to do something more than apologize for his poor judgment a dozen years ago, he could voluntarily quit his leadership post. What he should avoid at all costs is making common cause with the black left, which would be doubling down on the original mistake rather than atoning for it.”

A response to the “blackmail” of Rep. Steve Scalise and new Section 4 triggers:

“And so, at Senate hearings last year, it was clear that no Republican would favor it, because it is designed to give a partisan advantage to the Left. It would serve no purpose to hold hearings on the bill in the House. The bill is dead, and it should stay dead.”

A story in Guam about arrests related to election fraud, and a response.

“Guam – Political analyst and University of Guam professor Ron McNinch has filed a complaint with the Guam Election Commission over recent arrests connected to allegations of possible election fraud. McNinch’s complaint stems from last month’s arrest of precinct official Catherine Peredo and her husband John Peredo.

In his complaint, McNinch lists a dozen concerns believing there has been or will be a violation of the Help America Vote Act of 2002. McNinch believes the GEC did not adequately address Peredo’s complaint and related concerns. As we reported, Peredo filed a complaint with the GEC after the general election, swearing under penalty of perjury through a notarized affidavit claiming to have seen pre-marked ballots in an ice cooler. She later recanted her statements saying she didn’t prepare the complaint and that Bernadette Meno did. McNinch further raises issue at how the GEC does not appear to have a complaint form or process readily available on its website. The GEC had no comment on the complaint at this time. “

“I expect her to be an activist just like Holder.  I think she will be an Eric Holder mini-me. They don’t need another Eric Holder clone running the Justice Department.”

National Review

There is nothing that invites fraud more than vote by mail.  It would be better to eliminate all vote by mail than it would be to implement voter ID.  Though that is a false choice, as steps can be taken to increase security in both places, the fact remains that voting outside of a precinct is the most fertile territory for fraud to occur, as it may have in Rhode Island:

“We have already written here of questions raised in North Smithfield, where a winning General Assembly candidate captured the mail ballot vote by wide margins in five precincts but lost in a sixth, where a nursing home requested 50 mail ballots. More recently, similar questions have been raised about results in several South Providence precincts, where mail ballot votes in the Providence mayor’s race seemed to run contrary to the overall election results.”

There’s lots of other things besides voter ID that state legislatures can do to increase election integrity.  Nevada, it seems, is aiming at voter ID.

Thousands of ineligible registrations removed:

“As part of a biennial purge of inactive or ineligible voters, Henderson County dropped 6,135 residents from its voting rolls in 2014.”