“That system is going to be very partisan and very inefficient. The goal is to get as many people to vote Democratic as possible,” says former ACORN whistleblower turned election integrity activist Anita MonCrief: MonCrief suspects the Obama White House is looking for a way to reactivate ACORN-type voter registration tactics, which might make it easier to commit fraud at the ballot box. That’s why the stories about long election lines are suddenly in circulation, she said.
Much more on the connection of the much-hyped but rare “long lines,” mandatory voter registration, and the push for increased federal control of elections here.
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“Group fighting voter fraud among those waiting on IRS; reams of documents still not enough”
According to this Washington Times front page article, True the Vote is getting the extra special IRS treatment. True the Vote is just one of the dozens of groups caught up in the IRS plan to give extra scrutiny to conservative groups in the 2010 and 2012 elections.
A Texas group dedicated to combatting voter fraud applied for tax-exempt status in 2010 and has suffered three years of delays, been through four different IRS agents, undergone six FBI inquiries and submitted thousands of pages of documentation — and its still hasn’t been approved.
“White House senior staff told of IRS probe findings”
“IRS flagged small tea party groups, ignored big budget organizations”
Fox News: The IRS bullies the small grassroots organizations. The federal government clamps down on the speech of those citizens the First Amendment was designed to protect.
“Voter fraud is easy with 13,000 in Maryland still on D.C. records”
The District has failed to remove from its voting rolls as many as 13,000 former residents who years ago moved to Prince George’s County and cast ballots there, making fraud by voting in two jurisdictions as easy as going to the polls in their old neighborhoods, The Washington Times found in a review of records. “It happens a lot,” said Ward 7 activist Geraldine Washington. “I know of people who still vote in their old address after they’ve moved [out of the District]. I mean years after.” The biggest risk of having nonresidents listed on the rolls is not the risk of people voting twice themselves, but of others appropriating their names by the hundreds. They are easy targets for those who would cast votes in other people’s names in bulk, often by absentee ballot, after scanning the list for names of people who hadn’t voted in years and would therefore not show up to hear that their vote already had been cast.
Three potential cases of voter fraud have been uncovered so far. One voter acknowledged voting in both places; two others who no longer live in DC but remain on the voter rolls say someone else impersonated them and cast votes in their names – a crime made easier by the District’s lack of voter ID requirements.
Dem: “Ex-IRS chief lied to Congress”
Link to story @ the Hill.
“The Good News About Race and Voting”
Wall Street Journal has this story: “In the past three presidential elections, very few Americans reported having problems or difficulties voting according to Pew Research Center surveys. In its Nov. 8-12 poll in 2012, just 4% of whites answered yes to the question: “Did you have any problems or difficulties voting this year, or not.” Only 2% of African-Americans responded affirmatively.”
National Review on Harassment of Election Integrity Groups by Feds
As Cleta Mitchell notes, this is just the begining of the story. National Review:
“Bryan adds: ‘It was kind of funny to us. I mean, we weren’t laughing that much, but we knew we were squeaky clean. Our CPA’s a good guy. And who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor: I got a little bit of a refund.’
Two months later, the IRS initiated the first round of questions for True the Vote. Catherine painstakingly answered them, knowing that nonprofit status would help with the organization’s credibility, donors, and grant applications. In October, the IRS requested additional information. And whenever Catherine followed up with IRS agents about the status of True the Vote’s application, “there was always a delay that our application was going to be up next, and it was just around the corner,” she say.
As this was occurring, the FBI continued to phone King Street Patriots. In May 2011, agents phoned wondering ‘how they were doing.’ The FBI made further inquiries in June, November, and December asking whether there was anything to report. . . .
Her husband offers an additional observation: ‘If you knew my wife, you’d know she doesn’t back down from anybody. They picked on the wrong person when they started picking on her.'”
Pelosi: “IRS scandal illustrates need to reverse Citizens United”
At The Hill, Pelosi doubles down: