Author Archives: J Christian Adams

Washington Post Discovers “Vast White Wing Conspriacy”

Hot Air has more on News21.

I covered this same story at PJ Media - the racialist reporting and racially inflamatory quotes in the Washington Post.  It is amazing to watch the naked race baiting in some corners of the media when law abiding citizens decide to volunteer and become active in the electoral process, using legal means.  You’d almost think someone is trying to hide something.

DOJ SC Voter ID Strategy: Portray SC as Racist

The central strategy of the Justice Department in this week’s voter ID trial about South Carolina Voter ID is to portray the state as virtually unchanged since 1965.  This McClatchy report provides some background.    DOJ will produce experts to testify that South Carolina continues to be a racist place, even if the racism has gone more underground. 

As someone who lived in South Carolina and saw race relations up close, this is a disturbing and deceptive argument. I even brought a Voting Rights Case against Georgetown County School Board.  That lawsuit did not include any claims of racially discriminatory intent.   Race relations in South Carolina are better now than they are in most parts of the United States, including the Northeast, Boston, Cleveland and elsewhere.  But to this Justice Department, the south is a strange and sometimes wicked place, where the ghosts of the past determine modern policy. 

Too bad.  It isn’t true.  Sure, there are isolated pockets, isolated events.  But that’s true everywhere.  DOJ will attempt to do so with an expert witness that will cost the taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.  That’s right, the citizens of South Carolina are paying tens of thousands of dollars for government experts to testify they are racists.

South Carolina will no doubt object to the introduction of this evidence, but they will probably lose, and the court will have to decide how much weight to attach to it, if any.  This is unlikely to be an appealable issue.  Indeed, few issues in these trial are set up well for appeal – except a challenge to the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights itself, something South Carolina has not done, even though they have filed an amicus brief in the US Supreme Court saying so in another case.

Perhaps the trial will reveal why South Carolina has filed the amicus calling for Section 5 to be invalidated, but refuses to avail themselves of the same defense in District Court.  I am sure that the trial lawyers from the Justice Department are highly relieved.

“Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Votes”

Another story you won’t find reported (so far) on other election law blog sites.  Verified illegal alien voting.

Speaking of which, this story in the Nation about why John Husted pulled out of the True the Vote summit in Ohio is inaccurate.  Some other blogs have linked to it.  Perhaps we can pretend we own those blogs and demand retractions.  In a few days it will be clear why Husted did not attend, and it is not because of the reasons the Nation reports.  We’ll keep our eyes open for retractions of previous posting, but we won’t demand them.

Alabama Women Jailed on Absentee Ballot Fraud Charges



Russell County District Attorney Ken Davis tells the Ledger-Inquirer:



“If you want to manipulate the absentee ballot system in Alabama you can because the system is designed to let people vote, not to keep people from voting,” Davis said. “If there are people out there that want to skirt the system, if they want to use the system, it’s liberal enough, it’s open enough, that they can, and that’s happened in Russell County many times.”


 


The 2008 city and county elections both prompted criminal investigations into absentee voting irregularities, but a grand jury “no billed” the case and no charges were filed. In 2002, Nathaniel Gosha, a former county commissioner and City Council candidate, was convicted of 25 felonies and 12 misdemeanors in a scheme to sell absentee ballots.


 


“Of course, we don’t know how many are out there that we haven’t intercepted,” he said of the allegedly forged applications.


Wisconsin AG appeals to state Supreme Court to allow photo ID law for November

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said he will ask the state’s Supreme Court to reinstate a voter identification law before the Nov. 6 state and national elections. …Van Hollen, who appealed both rulings on the state’s behalf, today said he wants the high court to block their enforcement.


“No quarter has been given in defending Voter ID,” the Republican attorney general said in a statement outlining his plan to bypass the intermediate-level appellate court. “While I respect the judicial process and the right to challenge a law in court, it is time for our Supreme Court to take control of these cases.” Fights over voting access are intensifying in swing states, such as Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where both Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns see a possibility of victory. Voter cases are also under way in Alabama, Texas and South Carolina.

Link here.

A Stroll Through the Museum

Not election related, my latest at Front Page.

“National Geographic Explorer’s Hall in Washington D.C. has hosted some of the most prestigious exhibits in America. Previous exhibits have included the Chinese terracotta warriors, as well as the James Caird, the lifeboat Sir Ernest Shackleton miraculously sailed from Antarctica to South Georgia Island in 1916. Currently it is hosting a curious exhibit through February 2013 entitled “1001 Inventions: Discover the Golden Age of Muslim Civilization.” This high tech, slickly produced exhibit explicitly seeks to debunk the “myth” that the dark ages were dark.

The exhibit purports to provide examples of innovations from Muslim civilization, and some of the claims may come as a surprise to those familiar with the Wright Brothers or Yuri Gagarin.”

“Cross dressers and voter fraud in Rhode Island”

The ultimate voter impersonation scheme where people actually voted in disguise and dressed in drag to fraudulently vote for others.  On this one, it is almost too surreal to believe.  

The American Spectator has the story and sworn allegations by a Democratic candidate.

Among the many individuals who impersonated voters in Rhode Island during the 2010 election cycle, there was one that really stood out.  That was the year Democratic Mayor David Cicilline of Providence, Rhode Island, ran for and won the seat congressional seat vacated by Rep. Patrick Kennedy.


A key witness who claims she was hired by Cicilline in 2010 alleges in sworn statement that several individuals impersonated actual voters, and voted in disguise. Here is where it gets very creative.  “That afternoon I identified individuals who had voted in disguise, including cross-gender clothing, earlier in the day,” the witness said. “This included a currently powerful leader in the Rhode Island House of Representatives.”