Author Archives: J Christian Adams

Daily Caller: “As college student, Eric Holder participated in ‘armed’ takeover”

An interesting perspective:




“As a freshman at Columbia University in 1970, future Attorney General Eric Holder participated in a five-day occupation of an abandoned Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) headquarters with a group of black students later described by the university’s Black Students’ Organization as “armed,” The Daily Caller has learned.


Department of Justice spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler has not responded to questions from The Daily Caller about whether Holder himself was armed — and if so, with what sort of weapon.”

“U.S. Supreme Court upholds SC redistricting”

South Carolina’s redrawn state house and congressional maps were allowed
to stand Monday, as the U.S. Supreme Court summarily affirmed a federal
court’s ruling that the state’s new lines are fair and don’t
discriminate against racial minorities.

Charlotte Observer has the full story.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/10/01/3570082/us-supreme-court-upholds-sc-redistricting.html#storylink=cpy

Indiana: GOP request have Democratic Club removed as polling site is denied

The vote fell along party lines, with
county Clerk Terri Rethlake, a Democrat and the secretary of the board,
and Democratic board member Jim Korpal in favor of the status quo and
Republican board member Murray Wynn opposed to it.

Citing the club’s connection to the Democratic Party and related concerns, including accusations of electioneering, voter intimidation, fraudfull story.

“Military ballot requests down in key battleground states”

Requests from military voters for absentee ballots have dropped
significantly since 2008, according to newly released statistics,
prompting claims that the Department of Defense is dragging its feet in
enacting a law meant to boost military voting.

The drop in the battleground states of Virginia and Ohio is among the
most pronounced. According to statistics released Monday by The Military
Voter Protection Project, the number of absentee ballot requests by
both military members and other overseas voters in the two states has
dropped 70 percent since 2008.

link to full story

Military Voting Mess 2012

Drudge has the story from the Military Voter Protection Project, above the fold.



I’ll have more on the 2012 version of this mess latter today. But here is all you need to know: requests for absentee ballots among military members have plunged, during a cycle where the Pentagon spent $75,000,000 on military voting.  States continue to screw up compliance with the MOVE Act, during a period where political appointees trumpeted enforcement of the MOVE Act.  Some outlets and sites are ignoring the military voting mess.  We’ll have more information here shortly.

Zombie Voting in Maryland

Maryland Reporter.

“According to their research, voter registration numbers for Montgomery County resident Rufus Harris of Silver Spring, who died in 2002, was used to cast an absentee ballot in the 2008 general election. Prince George’s County resident George T. Zell of Hyattsville, who died in July 2004, cast a vote in the 2004 general election. Records also indicated that Harris became registered as a voter on Sept. 4, 2008, six years after his death.”

“Tennessee voter ID law is common sense: Memphis’ 2005 Ford election proves why”

At Knoxnews.com, editorial on Tennessee voter ID and a rewind to the past in the infamous Ford fraud case.  Excerpt below:

In the Memphis case, a well-known folk artist, Joe Light, supposedly cast a ballot in person in the Ford race. Light had been dead for years. Fund and von Spakovsky detail how “dead” people voted, felons voted, people from outside the precinct voted and the sordid details of how the fraud was perpetuated, with local election officials complicit. They wrote:

Local poll officers were involved in some of the fraud in this election. That type of insider fraud can be hard to deter and hard to detect. The importance of poll-watching programs cannot be overstated. They allow poll watchers and election observers to verify that officials are not violating the law, or even sloppily failing to follow the law, by allowing individuals to vote whose IDs don’t match their registered addresses. The Memphis case is a perfect example of how close elections are changed due to voter fraud, and why security measures should be put in place to ensure that elections are decided only by legitimate voters.