Author Archives: J Christian Adams

“Pennsylvania voter ID cause furthered by Philly voter fraud report”

HumanEvents reports on a report of voter fraud and irregularities in just one primary election in the wild west of voter fraud and voter intimidation (New Black Panthers) – Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love:

At a time when voter ID laws in 30 states are coming under intense
fire from the liberal media, the Obama administration and civil rights
leaders, one of the strongest cases anywhere was offered for voter
identification by the lone Republican on the three-member panel
overseeing elections in Philadelphia.

Wednesday, City Commissioner Al Schmidt unveiled a 27 page report
that his office had commissioned entitled “Voting Irregularities in
Philadelphia County, 2012 Primary Election.” The report, which focused
on cases in 15 of the city’s 1,687 election districts, found cases of
double voting, voter impersonation, voting by non-citizens, and 23 cases
of people who were unregistered to vote but nonetheless permitted to do
so.

 

“Dem takeover of House of Representatives is impossible”

Bold prediction.  ELC doesn’t normally discuss political seat arithmetic or subtraction but this opinion by political expert Stuart Rothenberg is important in the context of recently competed congressional redistricting across the country and where party resources may be focused in a close senate and presidential race.

@Roll Call: Right now, the outlook for the House is anywhere from a small GOP gain
to a modest Democratic gain in the single digits — not close to what
Democrats hoped for as the cycle began.
…Given the current outlook, a Democratic gain of 10 to 12 House seats
would have to be regarded as an extremely good outcome for the party,
and a net GOP gain is not impossible. What does seem impossible, at
least at this point, is a Democratic takeover of the House in November.

“Suppressing the military vote”

HumanEvents.com has the story: 

In the voter fraud versus voter suppression debate, the biggest
suppression of the vote, and the most scandalous, has gone virtually
unnoticed.  Deployed members of the American military have the most difficulty
getting absentee ballots and casting their vote on time than any other
group of Americans. According to the Military Voters Protection Project (MVPP), only 20
percent of the 2.5 million military voters were able to request and
return their absentee ballots on time in the 2008 election.

…According to testimony by Thomas Perez, assistant Attorney General for
civil rights at the Justice Department, one third of overseas troops who
wanted to vote in 2010 couldn’t.

And what is DOJ doing about it?  Re-fighting the voter ID wars the Supreme Court has already weighed in on and trying to prevent verification checks for non-citizen voters.

Pennsylvania develops easier way to obtain voter ID

link.  …beginning the last week in August, when the new cards are supposed to
become available, citizens will not have to produce birth certificates
and Social Security cards, as currently required, to prove their
identities to PennDot personnel.

Under the new requirements, the new photo ID cards will be available
to registered voters who can provide a birth date, Social Security
number, and two proofs of residency, such as utility bills.

PennDot will check immediately with the Department of State on the
voter’s registration status and, if the status is confirmed, issue a
voter ID card on the spot, the Department of State announced.

Photo ID amendment title swap headed to Minnesota Supreme Court

Proponents of the push to require photo ID and make
other polling place changes asked the court Thursday to undo revisions
by Secretary of State Mark Ritchie. The Democrat cast aside the title
legislators chose to appear above the ballot question in favor of his
own.   A tussle over the title for a proposed constitutional amendment seeking changes to Minnesota voting is headed for the state Supreme Court.   link here.  

The Minnesota Legislature passed the ballot question with the title
“Photo Identification Required for Voting.” Ritchie changed the title to “Changes to in-person & absentee voting &
voter registration; provisional ballots.”  Ritchie bares his partisan teeth and shows himself not to be a steward of
fair election administration in his state.  Instead, his actions are one
you would expect of a partisan ideologue trying to inappropriately
influence the votes of Minnesota citizens.  If you were to strap Secretary Ritchie to a lie detector and ask him whether he
thought his proposed title fairly describes the Photo ID amendment that has been debated over the past year, he
would likely fail.  Where are all the critics of partisan election administration?



Military Voting Protection Project cites 15 states for helping military vote

UPI reports on the mixed record of complying with the 2009 MOVE Act. 

The Military Voter Protection Project says 15 states have made
exceptional efforts to ensure military personnel can cast ballots.

The “All-Star” list released Tuesday included Alaska, Colorado,
Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, North
Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.   “These states are led by a tremendous group of state and local
election officials who have made military voters a priority in
elections. They have provided the gold standard of leadership in the
fight to promote and protect the voting rights of our heroes,” said Eric
Eversole, founder and executive director of the group. “We still have a
long way to go, but these states are providing the example for other
states to follow.”


McClatchy asked about those not on the list:

Eric Eversole, executive director of the military voter project,
identified the states doing the worst job at helping military voters as
Alabama, California, Illinois, New York and Wisconsin.

“Extraordinary
efforts to help military service members in war zones votes should be
universal. The reasons they aren’t are often just bureaucratic, or an
inefficient system,” Eversole said. “But these are Americans willing to
sacrifice everything for their country. We at least owe it to them to
make sure their votes count.”

more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/17/156522/states-praised-others-faulted.html#storylink=cpy


Voter Fraud and Citizen Confidence

Leora Meeks responds to the recent voter fraud indictments of election officials in West Virginia:

“I don’t care who you vote for. They’re going to put in who they want,” said Branchland resident Leora Meeks.

This is an example of the corrosive effect of voter fraud.  Citizens believe their votes are dilluted and meaningless when criminals affect the outcome of elections.

Anti-democratic attack on Voter ID in Minnesota

“What no doubt annoys the LWV and the other organizations that have joined the suit (such as the ACLU and Common Cause) is that they lost in the legislative process. This amendment was thoroughly debated and discussed by the duly elected representatives of the voters in three House committee hearings, four Senate committee hearings, one conference committee hearing, and numerous floor debates. Fourteen amendments were offered in the House and 15 in the Senate. But neither the LWV nor any of the other opponents of voter ID could make the case that there was anything wrong with this common-sense election reform.”  Full story.