Author Archives: J Christian Adams

The Lawyers Committee once opposed Jim Crow, now they oppose the truth.

A pathetic and tragic post script illustrating why the once relevant and honorable Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights is today neither.  John Fund at National Review.

“Artur Davis, a former Democratic congressman from Alabama who seconded Barack Obama’s nomination in 2008, highlights the prevalence of illegal ballots. He says that from his experience of watching rampant voter fraud in his state, “the worst kind of voter suppression going on today is the wholesale manufacture of ballots in African-American neighborhoods.”


And exactly how would the Clear Channel billboards prevent anyone who is legally eligible to vote from going into a polling place? As Pam Fessler of NPR noted in her report on the controversy: “Even if the billboards are intended to intimidate, there’s no evidence such tactics work, that they don’t instead have the opposite impact.”


But they could prevent voter fraud in both registrations and voting, which is a real problem in both Cleveland and Milwaukee. In 2008, Cleveland was rocked by a scandal involving ACORN, the now-bankrupt liberal get-out-the-vote group. Thousands of its voter registrations turned out to be fraudulent or duplicates, and Mari Engelhardt, the group’s Ohio political director, had to admit to election officials that ACORN couldn’t prevent all the fraud happening under its umbrella.

In Tennessee, “Early voting swells, despite Democrat concerns over new ID law”



“Droves of voters have taken the opportunity to cast ballots early,” according to reports based on numbers published by Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett.  


 


“Alluding to Tennessee’s recent voter ID law, the release from the Department of State stated that, based on the most recent numbers, only 31 voters statewide had been forced to vote with a provisional ballot because they had showed up at polls without a state- or federal-issued photo ID. Of those 31 individuals, 16 had already returned with proper ID and had their ballots counted.” 


 


The early vote count is now up to 491,575 – nearly one in eight of Tennessee’s registered voters – according to the Secretary of State’s website.

Military Ballots Lost in Afghan Crash?

A source familiar with the internal operations of FVAP provides us the following email which was sent this morning:


Dear Election Official,


On Friday, a transport aircraft crashed at Shindand Air Base in Afghanistan


and was destroyed along with 4,700 pounds of mail inbound to Afghanistan.


We do not know if there were any ballots in the destroyed mail, but all of the


mail was bound for the zip code 09382 (Shindand, Farah, and Camp Stone (also


known as Herat)).


If you have sent any ballots to the zip code 09382, we recommend you attempt


to contact the voter and resend a new ballot, as the first ballot may have


been destroyed in the crash and fire.


Voting Assistance Officers will be informing Service members in the area


impacted by this incident to submit a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (FWAB).


Thank you for all that you do for military and overseas voters. If you have


any questions, call us toll-free at 800-438-8683 or send an email to


vote@fvap.gov.


Paddy J. McGuire


Deputy Director for Election Official Assistance


Federal Voting Assistance Program


571-372-0739 – direct (note the new number)


703-589-8980 – mobile


paddy.mcguire@fvap.gov