As discussed in my book Injustice and now part of an NAACP press release “NAACP Urges Blacks To Support the Justice Department”:
““Across the U.S., the NAACP and our partners are working with key state officials and the Department of Justice to fight laws that deny some voters a voice in our democracy. And slowly battles are being won,” Jotaka L. Eaddy, NAACP Senior Director, Voting Rights Initiative, said in a statement.
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“Senator Cornyn criticizes lack of voter assistance to military”
The Houston Chronicle reports: And those looking for help might be out of luck. A report released Aug. 31 shows the Department of Defense could not reach about half of 219 required voter assistance offices, prompting an angry letter from Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act cosponsor Sen. John Cornyn
For members of the military serving overseas, there’s another battle being fought on the home front: registering and voting in this year’s presidential election.
Pennsylvania legislator proposes “Voter ID Day” as outreach
IBD: “Obama To Soldiers Overseas: No Voting For You!”
Last week, however, the Pentagon’s inspector general reported that “Results were clear. Our attempts to contact IVAOs failed about 50% The estimated cost of establishing functioning IVAOs at all overseas Investors.com link to full story. Ouch.
attempts to locate and contact IVAO offices at overseas military
installations failed about half the time.
of the time,” the inspector general reported. “We concluded the Services
had not established all the IVAOs as intended by the MOVE Act because,
among other issues, the funding was not available.”
military bases not in combat zones is estimated at between $15 million
and $20 million a year. We wasted $530 million on Solyndra but can’t
afford a relative pittance to ensure our soldiers are not
disenfranchised.
“GOP Senators cite unacceptable violations of military voting law in letter to DoD”
At the link, quoting from the letter: With great disappointment, we have concluded that the Department of
Defense (DoD) stands in clear violation of a central provision of this
federal law, which mandated the creation of on-base voter assistance
offices. The price of DoD’s failure to follow the law will likely be
paid this November by military service members and their families, whose
voting rights were to have been safeguarded by this provision.
“Mexican Man Admits to Voter Fraud”
A Mexican who was deported decades ago for drug trafficking pleaded guilty this week to living illegally in Escondido under a false identity and fraudulently voting in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, federal authorities said Friday. Ricardo Lopez-Munguia, 45, pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted entry to the U.S. after deportation, making a false claim to U.S. citizenship, and voter fraud by an illegal alien, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office. Guilty. Of voter fraud. Yet the North County Times thinks it’s relevant to point out that Despite accusations often leveled during or after elections, proven cases of voter fraud are exceedingly rare, according to several studies and reports. A policy brief by the New York University School of Law’s non-partisan Brennan Center for Justice said that voter fraud is “essentially irrational” and “a singularly foolish way to attempt to win an election”… Many instances of alleged voter fraud are later discovered to be simple clerical errors. Ignore the facts – the Brennan Center says voter fraud is “irrational” so how could it occur? Or maybe it was just a “clerical error.” Denying the fraud even while reporting it.
ACLU, LULAC oppose Iowa citizen voter verifications from federal database
A judge heard arguments Thursday over whether Iowa Secretary of State ..[Deputy state attorney general Jeffrey] Thompson, however, said the groups have misinterpreted the rule. By
Matt Schultz exceeded his authority in a search for thousands of
possible ineligible voters before November’s election. Attorneys
for the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa and a Latino advocacy
group, League of United Latin American Citizens, argued for an
injunction to halt an effort to check identities against a federal
immigration database to determine citizenship.
eliminating access to the federal database, the likelihood increases
that the state will mistakenly challenge citizens’ right to vote. He
also noted that the emergency rule would only be in effect for this
election cycle. After November’s election, Schultz’s office will solicit
public comment and adjust the rules if needed, he said. Link at the Des Moines Register
15 in North Dakota charged with voter petition fraud
Fifteen people were charged Friday with violating North Dakota
election law, many of them telling investigators they forged names on
petitions they circulated in order to meet quotas and to achieve bonus
pay.One defendant told an investigator every signature he turned
in was forged. Thirteen of the 15 defendants are either current or
former players on the North Dakota State University football team. Full story here.
“White Southern Democrat Congressmen: An endangered breed”
The Washington Post: “It’s possible there won’t be a single white Democratic member of
Congress from Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Arkansas, and maybe just one or two from North Carolina, Tennessee,
possibly for the next decade,” said David Wasserman, who tracks House
races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. “The only case under which a conservative Democrat could win in those states would be because of a scandal or a national Democratic wave.” Once the dominant part of the South, Democrats saw their power decline with Lyndon B. Johnson’s embrace of civil rights reforms and the rise of evangelical Republicans.
It appears the liberal main stream media is blaming the Voting Rights Act for the political failures of white Democrats.
Reporters in Charlotte Violating FEC Rules?
I’m sure the election crimes branch at the DOJ will be right on this conduit/false names case: “Have you ever thought of making up a fake name? That’s what the other guys do,” she said. Buying official merchandise at the DNC means making a donation the Obama campaign, an activity that is generally frowned upon for members of the media. The Obama campaign website specifically informs shoppers that purchases amount to donations.”
“The woman working at the souvenir stand told us she hadn’t been “too busy” during the day, but had seen business pick up in the past half hour or so. She then asked us whether we wanted to buy anything. When we informed her that our status as a reporter means we don’t buy campaign gear, she suggested a strategy other members of the media have apparently used to pick up their Obama swag.