Link. Ohio’s Attorney General has decided to appeal a federal appeals court decision on a military voting rights law to the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision by the lower court could have far-reaching and disastrous affects on the voting rights of the men and women our armed forces.
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More on DOJ’s Late Lawsuit and #FVAPFail @PJMedia
PJ Media has more on the three week delay in bringing the lawsuit against Vermont for screwing military voters.
“Naturally the swift and efficient DOJ Voting section waited nearly three weeks to bring the federal lawsuit. To anyone who has worked in the Voting Section, the reason(s) it takes so long for military voting enforcement to activate are entirely obvious, and must be comprehensively overhauled in a Romney administration.
These lost 19 days will disenfranchise military voters. DOJ should have filed a complaint within the first week of non-compliance, and demanded either a consent decree or TRO that forced Vermont to use express delivery of ballots from that moment forward. Instead, DOJ’s current leadership thinks that a slow leisurely litigation schedule that tacks on extra days to return ballots after the election is already over is the solution. That thinking needs to be removed from DOJ in 2013. . . .
I’ve talked with scores of military voters in the last 2 years that describe a voting system that is so inefficient that large numbers of folks who wear the uniform simply bail out of the process. This is a sickening tragedy that must be once and for all fixed by a new administration. Fundamental changes must be made @FVAP (#IGReportsaysFAIL), where social media is seen as the solution to the problem. (#wherearethevotingoffices #PaddyMcGuireDemocrat #75milliondollarsblown) Even more fundamental changes are needed to eliminate the DOJ bottleneck to speedy and effective UOCAVA enforcement.”
Vermont UOCAVA Lawsuit
Vermont lawsuit. But why not Mass????
Vermont suit filed 26 days before the election – nineteen days after it could have been filed. After the election, a Romney administration is going to have to overhaul UOCAVA enforcement inside DOJ. It shouldn’t take 19 days to file a complaint. It shouldn’t take 4, but under the existing infrastructure, sadly it does. I detail the particular changes a Romney Justice Department will need to implement to correct his mess in my book Injustice.
Broward Election Head to Illegal voters: “If they vote, they’ll be arrested”
Snipes said her office has purged 15,000 convicted felons from the rolls since 2009.
“We’ve done it accurately without any lawsuitsupdate.
Join the O’Keefe Video Body Count Pool
So far one Obama campaign staffer has been fired because of undercover video shot by James O’Keefe demonstrating campaign involvement with a voter fraud plot. More videos are coming.
So lets start a pool. Email me (address on lower left) your total guess of how many Obama campaign staffers will get fired by election day for statements facilitating criminal voter fraud made on undercover video caught by James O’Keefe.
Tiebreaker: name the state that the last staffer works in. Closest geographically wins. National Obama campaign staffers count as D.C.
Entries should look like this: 5, Virginia. or 1, Texas or 10, Colorado. You get the point.
Winner gets a free signed copy of my book and a special surprise prize.
Latino voters strongly support voter ID and overwhelming have IDs
Latino voters have been at the center of the voter ID law
controversy, and yet according to a new poll released Thursday, they are
not too bothered by it.
In its most recent study, the Pew Hispanic Center found that as many
as 71 percent of Latino registered voters support the controversial law,
which this year will be enforced for the first time in 11 states. Among
all registered voters, the ID law, which requires voters to show photo
identification in order to cast a ballot, is supported by 77 percent.
Consistent with this, 97 percent of those Latinos surveyed said they
are confident they have the ID needed to vote in their state.
More on SC Voter ID and Internal Memos
“Racialist Dishonesty In Attacks on True the Vote”
Breitbart has the story. Mock has even managed to push two politicians out on a limb with his dishonest attacks. Both Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) have fallen for it and sent accusatory letters to True the Vote. True the Vote has challenged the pair to attend their training seminars to learn the truth. They have even offered to meet with them and explain the True the Vote program. That neither Boxer nor Cummings have accepted tells you all you need to know about the motivation of the pair of politicians. As with Mock, myth is more compelling than truth. But perhaps Republican’s shouldn’t get too upset about Mock and his confederates terrifying democrats about armies of elderly ladies armed with clipboards. If Democrat voters really are so gullible to believe Mock’s myths, then perhaps the GOP should just sit back, relax, and let them scare the hell out of their own voters for no reason.
“Something is happening this election that has never happened before. Tens of thousands of patriotic Americans are searching voter rolls for dead and invalid voter registrations. These same patriots will monitor thousands of polling sites, recording any deviation from legal procedures and standing as silent sentinels against lawlessness in the election. True the Vote and affiliated groups across the nation are leading this charge.
For this public service, vile dishonest elements of the Left and their duped surrogates in Congress have attacked them. A parade of shameless attackers have pushed a dishonest narrative about these groups. Among them are the Demos (a group funded by the convicted felon George Soros), Common Cause, and the Brennan Center at NYU Law. These purportedly non-partisan organizations have played an aggressive role in attacking Tea Party efforts to ensure that the 2012 elections are free from voter fraud.
The most dishonest and racialist of the attackers, however, is Brentin Mock at The Nation. Apparently, this magazine has no editorial standards for honesty and accuracy, else they would terminate their relationship with Mock.
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But Mock’s inaccuracies aren’t just clumsy and small; they are also large and defamatory. They are racialist and malicious. Worse, some politicians have been duped by him.
Let’s stroll through Mock’s greatest hits.
Mock Myth #1 – “there are plenty of reports that show True the Vote has targeted neighborhoods that are majority people of color.”
There are also plenty of reports of Bigfoot and wood elves. All of these “reports” come from Mock’s fellow travelers who share Mock’s radical agenda. In truth, True the Vote monitors polls in every neighborhood. They have “targeted” (read: sued) two Republican-run election offices, including the Ohio Secretary of State. Mock cites not a lick of evidence for this assertion other than rumor and paranoia.
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Mock leads an October 8 Nation story with the headline: “Are True the Vote’s Poll Watching Activities Illegal?” This is a deliberate effort to chill and deter political association and involvement. It is designed to threaten law abiding citizens with the fear of arrest if they participate legally in the political process and exercise rights under federal and state law.
Who’s suppressing whom?
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DNC Fires O’Keefe Sting Target
It took two days, but the DNC has fired Stephanie Cabellero, the woman James O’Keefe caught on undercover video partipating in a scheme to illegally double vote in Florida. Cabellero was a paid Obama Organizing for America staffer.
Stay tuned for more. And if you work for the DNC or the Obama campaign, best hope you’ve played by the rules the last few months. You never know who you might have been talking to if you haven’t.
“Voter ID Validation”
Wall Street Journal. “The Critics Go Zero for Two.”
“Mr. Holder and other critics have used voter ID laws as a political foil to charge racism and gin up black voter turnout this year. The decision last week by Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court to block the Keystone State’s law only for this election was a big hint that the claims of racial discrimination are specious. The South Carolina decision underscores the point.”