Author Archives: J Christian Adams

True the Vote Files Intervention in TX Voter ID Case

True the Vote presser is here:



HOUSTON, TX. September 25, 2013 ― True the Vote (TTV), the nation’s leading voters’ rights and election integrity organization, today filed a Motion to Intervene and Answers to the Holder Justice Department’s complaint against Texas’ voter identification law (United States, et. al v. Texas, et. al (2:13-cv-00263)).


TTV will argue that the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit is misguided based on constitutional, empirical and Supreme Court precedence matters.


“The Holder Justice Department has made clear its litigation against Texas will serve as a warning that other states should not pursue election integrity measures – True the Vote stands ready to fight their effort to dilute voters’ rights,” True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht said. “Over 80 percent of Americans favor laws changing to require photo voter identification at the polls1. When the DOJ makes baseless claims to obscure the integrity of the voting process, we will not stand idly by. If Texas is to be labeled a political prize by the Plaintiffs and their Interveners, attacking election integrity will not be an acceptable strategy.”


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True the Vote establishes its standing to intervene based on a number of factors. During a previous federal lawsuit regarding Texas’ voter ID requirement (SB 14), DOJ attorneys and NAACP-LDF interveners repeatedly probed Texas lawmakers and election officials during depositions about TTV principals’ involvement in the legislative process for the law.


“We’re confident that our client’s Petition to Intervene will be granted and will make a real impact on how the case is litigated,” attorney Joe Nixon of the Houston-based Beirne, Maynard & Parsons said. “We will argue that the DOJ simply cannot attack Texas’ voter ID requirement in the absence of an aggrieved individual.”


True the Vote engaged legal representation from Houston-based Joe Nixon and Trey Trainor of Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P. and J. Christian Adams of the Election Law Center. TTV’s Motion to Intervene and Answers were filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Corpus Christi Division.



“Federal suit alleges ‘massive’ voter fraud in East St. Louis; seeks county takeover elections”

A federal lawsuit seeks East St. Louis elections to be conducted by county or state officials until an alleged 5,200 unlawfully registered voters are removed from the voting rolls in the city.

The East St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners conducts all elections within the city and is responsible for purging the voter rolls of residents who have died or moved out of the city. Matt Hawkins, an activist who is president of Civic Alliance of East St. Louis, filed the lawsuit against the Commission on Sept. 11 in federal court.  link

Dallas County DEMs vote to spend $275,000 on ID litigation rather than free photo IDs for citizens

Dallas County commissioners Tuesday morning voted along party lines to spend up to $275,000 to fight the state’s voter ID law.  Instead of using the money to provide free ID services to the voters they believe need a photo ID, they vote to spend money on joining a lawsuits with multiple other plaintiffs.

What a waste of money.

Study: “Early Voting Associated with Lower Turnout”

So much for reduction of early voting hours being racist and harmful to voters.

Reformers hate it when this happens:  The country’s most widely adopted
reform designed to make voting easier may lower the chances that an
individual voter will go to the polls, according to a new study to be published in an upcoming issue of the American Journal of Political Science.

OZ ID: Different Continent, Same Talking Points

“Queensland voter ID plan sparks claims Indigenous electors would be shut out.”

“The groups, which include the Human Rights Law Centre, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service and Youth Affairs Network of Queensland, said the laws would be an “expensive policy response to a problem that does not exist”.


Someone must have sent over the “solution in search of a problem” talking points.

“Voter Fraud is Real”

 Star Exponent.

“Another effective weapon against voter fraud is a clean and accurate voter registration database.  States should periodically purge their rolls of convicted felons, the deceased, those who have relocated, or simply unverifiable registrations.   A new Virginia law effective July 1st,    2013 requires the State Board of Elections to “cooperate with other states and jurisdictions to … compare voters, voter history, and voter registration lists to ensure the accuracy of the voter registration rolls, to identify voters whose addresses have changed, to prevent duplication of registration … and to determine eligibility of individuals to vote in Virginia.” 

“Farrakhan Delivers Stern Warnings”

Hot off his tour of Alabama opposing Shelby and Voter ID where he appeared with Democrat Alabama state senators (including Hank Sanders), Louis Farrakhan delivers stern warnings to the Jews.

“The parts that the Jewish people call Greater Israel or Eretz Israel; that (land) does not belong to you,” the Minister said. “Unfortunately, you will die there, but your blood and the Palestinian blood and Arab blood and the blood of others will purify that area for the real owners of the Kingdom of God,” he added. “Allah is going to use your blood to purify that area of the world for the Messiah to come back and bring back with him the people of God’s choice, for the Holy Land—Mecca in particular—will be the headquarters of the Mahdi and the Messiah,” he said.

“These lies and half-truths spread by the Zionist controlled media are purposely spread to infect the minds of the people and the peoples of the world, that we should think along the lines of the mischief makers and the blood-shedders in furtherance of their wicked objectives,” said the Minister. “Israel is (America’s) companion in wickedness, so you both are headed down into the bottomless pit of hell,” he added.”