A game of musical chairs played in Washington DC.  The term for the current longest-serving Commissioner, Ellen L. Weintraub, began with a recess appointment in 2002 and regular appointment in 2003.  Weintraub served as the Chair in 2003 and her term expired in April 2007.  Yet, she remains on the Commission almost 6 years later.  She serves until the President appoints a successor and the Senate confirms a new appointee. 

In 2013, Commissioner Weintraub is slated to become the new Chairwoman with Republican Commissioner Donald McGahn serving as the Vice-Chairman. 

Voter ID legislation passed the Arkansas House of Representatives in
2011, but was later stymied in the Senate. Now, Republicans hold a
majority in the Senate and on the State Agencies committee where the
bill is likely to be heard.

Link to story.

Somehow I missed this when it happened, but here it is at the Daily Caller.  Pat Moran, the violent son of the violent Congressman Jim Moran has fractured the skull of his girlfriend in a violent fight outside a bar.  He smashed her head into a cage and garbage can.  The Virginia Democrat’s reaction?  “They look forward to putting this embarrassing situation behind them.”  They are “good kids.”

Link to the story. 

“District 4 Election Commissioner Carl Payne reported an incident in which “a father cast an absentee ballot, the son voted in person and then the son changes clothes and returned to vote as his father. We learned of this from a written statement from the poll manager.”

Commercial Appeal

Schultz, a Republican elected in 2010, ignored that advice and made
his own argument against voter suppression. He told the committee that
Americans don’t vote because they think the election system is
compromised. “It seems clear that a lack of confidence in the
integrity of our elections is one of the reasons people do not vote.
Some believe their votes do not matter and that belief is a true cause
of voter suppression across this country,” he said.

…Schultz said the real suppression occurs when people can’t be sure their
vote isn’t being canceled out by an illegal voter. “The truth is that
when election officials take steps to secure the integrity and safety of
the ballot box, confidence in the outcome rises, and voter
participation increases,” he said.

DesMoines Register.

…we have a new example of just how far prominent people will go to commit
voter fraud. Wendy Rosen, who until last September was the Democratic
nominee in Maryland’s Eastern Shore congressional district, was just
indicted for voting in both Florida and Maryland since at least 2006.
Each of the two counts she was indicted on carry a possible sentence of
up to five years in jail and a fine of $2,500.  Full story at National Review Online.

Meanwhile, the left calls to “End the War on Voter Fraud“ – legalization is always an option, allowing for a permanent margin of error fraud.

Citing a “multitude of failures” and “justifiably shattered” public confidence in the County Elections and Voter Registration Office, 11 of 16 members of the Richland County Legislative Delegation signed a resolution calling on Elections Director Lillian McBride to step down by December 21.  The delegation has no authority to compel such action, but the resolution adds to the pressure on McBride and the county elections board.  WLTX has details.

Five years after committing the crime, John Fernandez is sentenced to five years in state prison for submitting fraudulent absentee ballots in the November 2007 general election, in a case that “snagged multiple county workers with ties to the Essex County Democratic party.”