Author Archives: J Christian Adams
Civil Rights History at the DNC
No Voter ID: What they usually won’t tell you up front.
The Washington Post has this letter to the editor that reveals a mindset some won’t share, but hold:
“Hold onto your hats. Here is the solution that will please all: Everybody, yes, everybody, who walks into a polling booth can vote. No proof of identity required. Illegal immigrants, foreign tourists, children — any and all are welcome. The more who vote, the more vibrant our democracy.”
Ouch: “Just 40 percent of voters said Obama deserves reelection.”
A poll by the Hill.
Senate Factor Six – “Once you go black…”
Anybody litigating a Section 2 case in California? If so, click on through to PJ Media for some Senate Factor Six evidence.
Is Voter Fraud “Non-Existent” in New Hampshire, or Do Democrat-Sponsored Laws Make Detection and Prosecution Non-Existent?
“[D]id Democrats pass laws that make it almost impossible to detect voter fraud in New Hampshire?” The answer is yes. “Did Democrats make it legal for people who do not live here to vote here?” The answer is yes. . . Voter Fraud existed and still does, Democrats just made it impossible to observe, to charge, and to prosecute. So when Bill Gardner says it is non-existent, we could just as easily say that if the State made it legal for burglars to enter your home and steal your stuff, that crime would be non-existent as well. . . Of course Bill Gardner has an even bigger problem. There is a good deal of voter fraud occurring that has nothing to do with ID, that he has never been willing to prosecute. Poll workers telling citizens lies about candidates to influence their votes, illegal registration practices, voter checklists with the names of the deceased or folks who have moved away, all forms of fraud that can steal or erase legitimate votes, all of it essentially ignored by Bill Gardner. And as long as he never has to really investigate anyone or anything, he can continue to say vote fraud does not exist. More here.
“Battle over voter ID intensifies as election approaches”
The fight over early-voting and ID laws, which can play a crucial role
in this year’s election given that many of these laws are in key states
such as Ohio and Pennsylvania, has been in the spotlight over the last
two weeks. link.
Ohio attorney general says he will appeal federal “early voting” ruling
In Ohio, the Plain-Dealer reports that Attorney General Dewine will appeal the federal ruling that restores in-person early voting on eve of Election Day.
DeWine said Ohio has always made exceptions for military personnel.
“Since the time of Civil War we’ve made a distinction in this country between the availability and access for people who are in the military versus the rest of us to vote. And we made that distinction because of the unique situation people in the military are in,” DeWine said. “This (law) is not anything new.” He said he will appeal because “My job as attorney general is to defend the laws of the state of Ohio and to defend the right of the state of Ohio to set its own rules and its own laws.”
As with the provisional ballot ruling last month, this is a blatantly
political decision and judicial activism at its worse. Disregarding
precedent and upending state law, the liberal federal judge, at the stroke of a pen, increased the early voting period for a three day period
across the state, imposing additional duties and an unfunded mandate on local and state election
officials without any authority. Instead of striking down a law that somehow violates the equal protection laws, this federal judge created his own revised Ohio law, his own creation of a early voting period, because it must be a new constitutional right to vote early. For everyone. Every day. All weekend.
According to Wikipedia, Judge Peter C. Economus is a Clinton
appointee and he previously worked at the Ohio Legal Assistance
Association. Therefore, there should be no surprise with the activist ruling. This is what we have all come to expect from Ohio’s federal
judges on a whole range of voting issues.
“Military voting likely to hit new low”
“Group says it found 30,000 dead North Carolinians registered to vote”
The News Observer reports that a Raleigh-based group devoted to reducing the potential for voter fraud presented the N.C. Board of Elections on Friday with a list of nearly 30,000 names of dead people statewide who are still registered to vote. The Voter Integrity Project compiled the list after obtaining death records from the state Department of Public Health from 2002 to March 31 and comparing them to the voter rolls. “Mainly, what we’re concerned about is the potential [for fraud],” said project director Jay DeLancy. “Since there is no voter ID law in North Carolina, anybody can walk in and claim to be anyone else.”