Author Archives: J Christian Adams

“The case of the phantom ballots: an electoral whodunit”

The Miami Herald: Within 2½ weeks, 2,552 online requests arrived from voters who had
not applied for absentee ballots. They streamed in much too quickly for
real people to be filling them out. They originated from only a handful
of Internet Protocol addresses. And they were not random.  It had
all the appearances of a political dirty trick, a high-tech effort by an
unknown hacker to sway three key Aug. 14 primary elections, a Miami
Herald investigation has found.  The plot failed. The elections department’s software flagged the requests as suspicious. The ballots weren’t sent out.  But who was behind it? And next time, would a more skilled hacker be able to rig an election?


Six
months and a grand-jury probe later, there still are few answers about
the phantom requests, which targeted Democratic voters in a
congressional district and Republican voters in two Florida House
districts.  The foreman of that grand jury, whose report made
public the existence of the phantom requests, said jurors were eager to
learn if a candidate or political consultant had succeeded in
manipulating the voting system. But they didn’t get any answers. “We were like, ‘Why didn’t anyone do something about it?’ ” foreman Jeffrey Pankey said.


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/23/v-print/3250726/the-case-of-the-phantom-ballots.html#storylink=cpy

Only 17% of Americans think it is too hard to vote

Most Americans like the idea of voting by mail but not same-day registration.


The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just
17% of Likely U.S. Voters believe it is now too hard to vote in the
United States. Twenty-seven percent (27%) think it’s too easy to vote in
America today, while 50% feel the level of difficulty is about right.

Rasmussen Reports.

Breitbart Covers von Spakovsky Appointment in Virginia

 Link toBreitbart.com story.

“Aguila and Farrell claimed von Spakovsky acted in a “partisan” way on the board. However, of von Spakovsky’s 224 votes, he made 221 in unison with the board’s Democrat commissioner. Only three votes were split 2-1.


The refusal to appoint the top designee of the Republican Party was entirely unprecedented in Virginia and promises to bring legislative scrutiny on the actions of Chief Judge Dennis Smith. It may also incite Republicans to scuttle the designees of the Democrat party in the future. . . .

The Fairfax Democrats reveal a larger national identity crisis within the Democratic party; rational centrist elements have been pushed aside by loud fringe elements led by activists such as Aguila and Farrell. Nearly the entire Democratic legislative delegation from Fairfax and all of the Democrat county supervisors consider Aguila and Farrell to be rough and unhinged but are powerless to tame them.


Von Spakovsky invited the wrath of the radical left when he stopped the distribution of literature published by the ideologically charged League of Women Voters in government election offices. In fact, he stopped literature distribution by all third-party groups. The response by the Democrat party reveals the integration of purportedly non-partisan election advocacy groups like the League with party priorities.


Farrell also resented that von Spakovsky was adamant that Fairfax County comply with the Help America Vote Act of 2002, a federal election law. That law requires that the names of provisional voters be kept confidential, but the Democrat party wanted to harvest that data.”

“I Voted Early” sticker outs Florida felon who illegally voted while on probation for ID fraud



From the ‘dumb criminals’ file:


 


Onakia Lanet Griffin, 33, was charged by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement with submitting false voter registration information; false swearing and fraud in casting a vote…


 


The vote fraud probe began last year when Griffin met with her federal probation officer in Hollywood while wearing a sticker that said, “I voted early,” an FDLE complaint affidavit states.


 


She admitted to the probation officer that she voted in the 2012 presidential election… The investigation found that Griffin registered to vote on June 5, 2012, and that her application said she was not a convicted felon and that she was qualified to register.


 


Griffin is no stranger to fraudulent behavior, having earned her felon status through wire fraud and identity theft, but will she escape punishment for her admitted voter fraud with the dumb criminals’ defense of ‘I didn’t know it was illegal’?


Americans Oppose Election Administration Agenda

A new poll shows that Americans overwhelming support the status quo when it comes to election administration. 

“77 percent feel that voting is too easy or “about right,” and are firmly against expanding voting times past two weeks or letting people register to vote on Election Day.   The poll is a blow to state and federal officials pushing to make voting even easier, by either allowing same-day voter registration or expanding the time to vote to well over two weeks before Election Day.”

A majority of Americans oppose ideas such as same day registration and expansion of early voting.

Movement Starts to Let States Decide How to Pick US Senators

Georgia legislators begin movement to allow states to decide how to pick U.S. Senators.

“The resolution says the 17th Amendment has prevented state governments from having a say in federal government and that repealing the amendment would hold U.S. senators accountable to the states. The federal government has grown in “size and scope,” it says, in the century since the amendment was adopted.”