The movie Hating Breitbart about our friend Andrew debuts Friday.  Andrew was a one-man dynamo who has left scores, if not hundreds, of folks in his organziation and elsewhere that have kept things humming along.  They have done a great jobing covering election law issues almost daily at Breitbart.com.  Here is the trailer for the movie that opens in select cities this weekend, including LA and DC.

 American Thinker angle.

Common Cause must have donor money to burn.  In Ohio, we’ve reported, a private group put billboards all around the city simply stating the law as written in lawbooks – voter fraud is a felony.  In response, protest rallies have been held at the billboard.  These protests have invoked race, as can be expected. 

Now Common Cause completes the story.  They have announced they will be spending money to put up billboards in response.  Critics of the original billboards allege that simply stating what the law says serves as a voter intimidation plot. 

I wonder if they are missing the point.  It is just as plausible to me that this was an effort to get left leaning interests in Ohio to overreact, blow time, blow resources, chase squirrels on the eve of an election.  By spending a few thousand dollars, the original sponsors have succeeded in entirely diverting the attention of the “civil rights” activists in Cleveland who should be knocking on doors instead of moaning about billboards.  Instead of talking to voters, they are talkng to the media about a billboard that factually states the law.  And Common Cause, instead of spending hard-won donor dollars to advance their broader purpose, are blowing it on reactionary billboards that will tell people what they already know – they can vote on November 6. 

When one side chooses to act and spend $x and y hours, and it causes their opponents to spend $X*3 dollars and Y*4 hours, who is the winner?

Someone familiar with these sorts of fights once wrote: “The enemy’s imagination is capable of causing them to overreact to what they think you will do.”  That may be the story of this election, how the predictable hard wired responses of these groups, and frankly the Obama campaign, resulted in them taking their eye off the ball and overreact to imaginary threats.  Whether videotapes on the eve of a debate, or billboards in Cleveland, the pattern is repeating.

It may be that Common Cause and the Lawyers Committee may have fallen for it also, to the detriment of their donors.

 Story here.

“Josna — and the business card listing her as royalty in the realm of absentee ballots — have become central figures in the case between Julien and Watson.

In his lawsuit, Julien alleges that Josna and a woman named Carline Paul gathered several fraudulent absentee ballots from nursing homes and apartments. Josna has not responded to a court-ordered subpoena and a private investigator hired by Julien has not been able to track her down.”

The Texas Tribune reports that State Sen. Mario Gallegos
Jr. died Tuesday after a long illness, just days before voters begin
filling in ballots that include the Houston Democrat’s name. So starts a
cringe-inducing change of power that occurs not when an officeholder
loses a re-election bid, but when one dies shortly before Election Day
and only days before the start of early voting.

It’s too late to
replace Gallegos on the ballot. If the late senator wins next month, his
party has a chance to hold his seat in the state Senate. Should voters
instead turn to the live Republican on the ballot — Rasuali Bray —
Gallegos’ death could figure into partisan control of the Texas
Legislature.

Partisan voting at its finest.  Of course this seat will not play an important role in the majority control of the Texas Senate.  The Texas GOP will control the Texas Senate and Legislature no matter what happens with this seat.   However, as the article points out, taking this seat and the Wendy Davis seat would give Texas Republicans 2/3rds control of the chamber and allow the GOP to bring up bills for votes without Democrats being able to prevent a vote on partisan bills.

Differences over voting requirements and ballot summaries for
initiatives that appear before voters are playing a significant role in
the campaign for the Missouri post responsible for overseeing elections.  Republican Shane Schoeller and Democrat Jason Kander are at odds over
Missouri’s voter photo identification proposals and whether a new panel
should have sway over the ballot summaries that the secretary of state
prepares for initiatives. Those are two of the biggest differences as
the two House colleagues compete to succeed Democratic Secretary of
State Robin Carnahan, who is not seeking a third term. 

Link to the Missourian

In tiny Vernon, California, a handful of fraudulent votes changes the outcome of an election: 

Link

“Three Franklin County residents face felony charges of voter fraud after the Board of Elections reported that they had voted more than once in a past election.  Each was indicted yesterday by a Franklin County grand jury on one count of illegal voting. They are accused of voting twice by casting absentee ballots under slightly different names…

Support remains high for voter integrity measures like voter ID, as a new Rasmussen Reports poll also finds 66% of Likely Voters believe voter fraud is a serious problem.