There were few complaints of people being turned away from the polls in Tennessee’s general election because they did not have an acceptable photo ID. Yet, opponents of the statute say any disenfranchisement is unacceptable. State election coordinator Mark Goins told the Chattanooga Times Free Press problems meeting the photo ID requirement on Nov. 6 appeared to be minimal. The final tally of provisional ballots was not yet available.
An interesting facts from the article:
Hundreds of calls on the voter hotline, only two photo ID questions.
Link to AP article.
Author Archives: J Christian Adams
“The ever more solid South”
The South, as a whole, was largely resistant to the Democratic winds last
week. The GOP now controls every legislature in the South, and every
governorship except Arkansas. Republicans also managed to hold every one
of its House and Senate seats in the region on Election Day – and even
managed to pick up a few House seats. Link to Politico.
Left-wing Commissioner on Civil Rights Commission calls for full federalization of elections
At the link, Michael Yaki of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: It’s time to federalize presidential elections. Let me repeat that: the As usual the phones and email lit up as soon as Rush Limbaugh started reading my latest PJ Media column on the air today. Here is the column. Link. I’ll be mostly off line here this week. Perhaps Lex and Tabella will be filling the void. The election undercut the arguments of the free speech regulators, those primarily in academia or in the unions who want Washington to have more power to control free speech. USA Today has this piece “Citizens United Didn’t Kill our Democracy.” Lynn Bailey, the executive director of the Richmond County Board of Elections, said that her office has several safeguards and checks that help eliminate ineligible voters from the rolls… They don’t, however, really have a way to check to see whether someone is registered at an address that isn’t actually a residence, such as a commercial property, she said. “When it comes to voter registration, we really try to give the voter the benefit of the doubt,” she said. Driggers isn’t the only business owner in Richmond County who isn’t registered at his home address, but at least he does live in the county. There are others who vote in Richmond County but live in other parts of the state. Las Vegas Review Journal editorial
Ohio voters have rejected a proposal to change the process for redrawing state legislative and congressional maps. Issue 2 lost after a fight that pitted voter advocacy groups and unions Link.
election of the U.S. president should be legislated and overseen by a single
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Rush Limbaugh Reads Latest PJ Media Article on Air
Here is the transcript.
RUSH: I’ll tell you something else. I’ll tell you something right along the same lines. In fact, I want to read to you from our old buddy J. Christian Adams who left the Justice Department because Holder refused to prosecute the guilty New Black Panther Party for vote for fraud in 2008 in Philadelphia. J. Christian Adams left because he realized that black defendants were not gonna be charged nor prosecuted, pursued by this Justice Department. He writes the following about immigration: . . .
[Reads column linked above]
RUSH: We have nothing countering public education, and we have nothing countering Entertainment Tonight or TMZ or whatever the pop culture, we don’t have anything that counters it. All we have is, “Gee, I hope that they listen to us or see us and realize what they’re being told is a bunch of lies.” I hope they could see that Newt is really not a nerd or a square. I wish they could see that Paul Ryan really is hip. He really is a great American. And now look. Their comedians can be the most raucous, filthy, insensitive, insulting they can be, and they are given accolades. We can’t even joke about them without being called racists, sexists, bigots insensitive or what have you. We can’t even laugh at them. We have to sit by and allow ourselves to be the subjects of derision, mockery, insult, and lies.
“Lincoln County (Ga) Sheriff claims voter fraud cost him election”
Lite Blogging this Week
Bad Month for Free Speech Regulators
“These results are inconvenient to those who perpetuate the myth that money buys elections.”
Voters Given “Benefit of the Doubt” When Registering; Vote Where They’re Not Eligible
In Richmond County, Georgia:
Even with poll workers checking IDs against voter registration lists and poll watchers watching the polls workers, some ineligible voters still slip through the system, casting votes in the wrong polling place – and even in the wrong county or state. Greg Driggers, for example, lives in Augusta Commission District 8, but he votes in District 4. He’s unapologetic about it…
“Why don’t we verify voter citizenship?”
Ohio voters reject proposal to change redistricting process
against business interests and the Ohio Republican Party. Lawyers’
groups split on the issue.
The constitutional amendment would have created a 12-member citizen
commission to redraw Ohio’s political districts every decade. It was
prompted by discontent over the maps approved by the state Legislature
in 2011.