The story of a would-be victim of the SPLC’s overstated reports.

Bears an extra mention from this story.

The Wall Street Journal has this article about mandatory voter registration:

“They basically want to use the government to do Democratic voter outreach and voter registration for them,” Mr. von Spakovsky says. “They believe that if they can get, for example, everyone registered to vote who is currently getting government benefits like welfare . . . then that will somehow get them more votes at the polls and make it easier to win elections.”

The Voter Empowerment Act would also mandate automatic registration of individuals on motor-vehicle, tax and university rolls, many of whom are aliens or have multiple addresses in different states: “You’re basically going to be registering lots of people who are ineligible and leading to many duplicate registrations.” The groups pushing such efforts—among them the Brennan Center for Justice, the ACLU and the NAACP—include “the same organizations that have been filing lawsuits over the past few years trying to prevent states from verifying the accuracy and eligibility of people on their voter-registration databases,” Mr. von Spakovsky says.

All this to solve what he argues is a nonexistent problem. “The number of people who don’t vote or don’t register because they have some kind of problem with registration is a tiny, tiny percentage. It is so easy these days to register to vote, including the fact that many states now allow online registration, that . . . it is not going to increase turnout.”

The Cincinnati Enquirer fails entirely to mention the election official who proudly said on camera she voted multiple times for multiple people for President Obama.  Of course the Inquirer is not alone.  Some have used the incident merely to highlight that voter ID isn’t a solution, as if that is the alpha and omega of election integrity efforts. 

From the Heritage Foundry, this: Jesse Jackson Jr. is facing “significant jail time” in his pending plea deal over a Justice Department investigation of the misuse of his federal campaign fund, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.  Apparently, Jackson was using those funds to purchase things like a
$40,000 Rolex. Jackson resigned last November in the midst of that
investigation.

Some academics think voter fraud is as common as Sasquatch.  Looks like Sasquatch showed up in the Presidential election in Ohio.

Subpoenas are flying: “Most troubling for election officials was the accidental discovery that a veteran poll worker appeared to have been engaged in a double-voting scheme allegedly involving both her and her granddaughter. She had served as a poll worker since 1988.”

I’ll be participating in the SCOTUS Blog on Shelby.  Stay tuned.

WRAL has the round up.


“Spakovsky also criticized a a North Carolina State Board of Elections study that found as many as 612,955 voters might lack ID, saying it failed to properly differentiate between active and inactive voters.”

More on the Hamilton County Board of Elections investigations into reports of voter fraud in 2012, including this instance of voter impersonation that leaves investigators asking the question that arises in all impersonation cases:  Who is to be investigated?