Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has released this report documenting verified non-citizen voting in Colorado elections. Secretary Gessler tells me this is just the beginning of his efforts to stop illegal non-citizen voting.
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Fund and von Spakovsky Offer to Debate Rick Hasen, Anytime, Anyplace
I learned over the weekend that Hans von Spakovsky and John Fund have offered to debate law professor Rick Hasen, anytime, anyplace about the allegations in their books. The pair have offered to appear at particular events where Hasen will appear to rebut the allegations in Hasens’ book.
So far, Hasen has refused to debate them about book contents.
I made a similar overture to Justin Levitt when I spoke at the National Council of State Legislature Meeting in Chicago. I said I’d debate him about voter fraud, but so far haven’t heard anything either.
Federal Court Rejects “Souls to the Polls” Argument in FL
All the headlines are naturally saying Florida lost the early voting issue, but the truth is that the core of the complaint about early voting – that church goers couldn’t get to early vote on Sunday and this discriminates against blacks – was squarely rejected by the court. That won’t get much attention, but is a defeat for racialist arguments.
40 Percent Likely to Sit Out 2012 Election
As has been said elsewhere, if you chose not to decide you still have made a choice.
“Voter ID Objections Miss the Real Need” in PA
True the Vote Summits – Ohio and Colorado
True the Vote is holding citizen activist summits the next two weekends. This Saturday it is in Colorado. Next weekend it is in Ohio. I will be appearing this weekend in Denver with John Fund and Secretary of State Gessler. Next weekend in Ohio, former Secretary of State Ken Blackwell will be appearing along with Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton. American Spectator has more details on the summits.
As I say in all my speeches around the country – if you are at home on election day, you aren’t doing your job. True the Vote will deploying tens of thousands of trained poll watchers in the largest election monitoring program in the country. Find out how you can help bring integrity to American elections and sign up to help here.
“Do Voter ID Laws ‘Disenfranchise’ People?”
No, Glenn Loury schools Mark Kleiman, Voter ID “is NOT disenfranchisement”. But “there’s LOTS of absentee ballot fraud,” says Kleiman. Video at National Review.
“Obama vs Military Voters”
Pennsylvania Voter ID Plaintiff “Happy As a Clam” She Now Has Photo ID
“The day after a judge upheld Pennsylvania’s new voter identification law, the lead plaintiff in the suit seeking to block the law went to a PennDot office and was issued the photo ID card she needs to vote.” Huh. As the judge ruled and this development confirms, the complaint always relied more on the 93-year-old Mrs. Applewhite’s emotional appeal than fact – and Judge Robert Simpson acknowledged, “I do not have the luxury of deciding this issue based on my sympathy for the witnesses.” Too bad for the anti-ID crowd, which prefers sympathetic figures over facts. The star of Team Obama’s “Gotta Vote” video, Dorothy Cooper of Tennessee, is another little old lady alleged to be a victim of Voter ID disenfranchisement who, it turns out, was merely inconvenienced on her way to successfully obtaining an acceptable photo ID. Lessons learned: Inconvenience is not disenfranchisement. Not currently having an ID is not the same as being unable to get an ID. And if 90-year-old ladies can get Voter ID, anyone can do it.
“Huge Public Support” for Voter ID
If Obama doesn’t want to jeopardize his chances of winning Virginia, his Justice Department best not slow down approval of voter ID in that state. Why? Because as Byron York points out, voter ID has “huge public support” and Holder has an “uphill battle.”