Author Archives: J Christian Adams

Galveston, TX election official: “Voter ID is a small blip on the radar”

The Galveston elections official says voter ID is not a big deal, a small blip on the radar.  Other issues that cause provisional ballots outpace any of those needed for ID issue.

Galveston County is holding early voting on a Galveston ISD issue.
Over 1,100 votes have already been cast. And elections official Bill
Sargent told KTRH it’s gone very smoothly.

“Only one provisional ballot had anything to do with a voter
identification issue. We’ve had 12 provisional ballots for various
reasons, but only one was for voter ID,” Sargent said. “We were
anticipating more. That hasn’t materialized. If this is indicative, then
it will be a blip on the radar, and a very small one at that.”

Catherine Englebrecht of True the Vote told KTRH she expected exactly what we are seeing in Galveston.

“Voters already have, in most cases, the identifications the state is
looking for. Texas has a number of kinds of identifications that work,”
Engelbrecht said. “We’re thrilled to hear that it’s been a walk in the
park, as we knew it would be.”

Over the Top at MLK Event: Supreme Court = KKK

Today at the Martin Luther King commemoration, there was this over the top statement.

Melanie Campbell said, “Today there are no white sheets, but there are judges in black robes in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, opening the floodgates in many states to pass more voter ID laws

I expect people like Campbell to try to scare people and smear people.  So where are the reasonable voices of the center left condemning Campbell’s incitement?  Where are the self-appointed measured and thoughtful commentators to call out Campbell?  Where are the snarky twenty-something bloggers who pounce on any colorable stupidity to come from the mouths of conservatives? 

As usual, they are no where to be seen.  Will gladly post links if they exist. Send by email or put in comments if I am wrong.

Absentee ballot trouble in Motor City enclave of Hamtramck



In this small Michigan city surrounded by Detroit,


 


Hamtramck police and the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office are investigating stacks of absentee ballots that were improperly delivered before the Aug. 6 primary election… The controversy started when bundles of absentee ballots turned in at Hamtramck City Hall raised enough suspicion that the deputy city clerk called the police.


 


Residents voting absentee are required by state law to turn in the ballot themselves or have a household or family member do so. But the week before the Aug. 6 election, three men showed up separately at the Clerk’s Office with stacks of absentee ballots with return address handwriting in the same print, which didn’t match the voter signatures, said Hamtramck Deputy Clerk August Gitschlag.


 


“Protecting the integrity of the election is why they brought me here,” said Gitschlag, who joined the City Clerk’s Office in July, about filing the police complaint…


 


While the piles of absentee ballots were challenged, they still were counted in the primary election. The 46 questionable ballots wouldn’t change the outcome of the mayor’s race, in which the two highest vote getters were hundreds of ballots ahead of the next finisher.  However, in one City Council race, third-place finisher Daria Swint finished 26 votes behind the second-place candidate… Swint said Councilman Mohammed Hassan approached her in June and offered her 26 absentee ballots for the primary election.

A Rabid Ex-DOJ Lawyer

Jim Letten is a rabid ex-DOJ lawyer, not the warm and smiley type you see on TV – and James O’Keefe is his nemesis, not his friend.  The video must be seen to be believed, or you can read about it here.  Another example of how nobody is safe from O’Keefe’s cameras anymore, anywhere.




Jonathon Turley has more:

“The film of the home visit does not appear to have any threats. It is the visit itself that appears to be the basis for the intimidating conduct. However, people are allowed to go to homes absent threats or a court order. There is no mention of a specific threat or threatening act other than the appearance at the home or the campus.”