Author Archives: J Christian Adams

Wall Street Journal: Florida Tackles Voter Fraud

 Wall Street Journal.

“The Obama administration sees racial animus and voter-suppression conspiracies in any Republican-led effort to improve ballot integrity, which is why it took court intervention before Florida election officials were finally given access to a federal database to help purge its voter rolls of non-citizens.

“We’ve already confirmed that non-citizens have voted in past elections here in Florida,”

Paywall at link.

More Bad Re-elect News: 80% Support VoterID in Florida

Breibart has more.  Not a good place to be, opposing voter ID in swing states where it is overwhelmingly popular.

54% percent also side with Rick Scott against DOJ and 35% are on the side of DOJ.  More bad re-elect news.

The internals fatal to Holder: “However, 60% of Hispanics, 80% of Republicans, and 58% of independents surveyed said they would support purging non-citizens from the voter rolls.”

“Is Mark Ritchie Attempting to Supress the Vote”

Pioneer Press editorial on Voter ID.

“Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has changed the Legislature’s voter ID amendment title, “Photo identification required for voting, ” into the following: “Changes to in-person & absentee voting & voter registration; provisional ballots.” Ritchie, who is well read and well spoken, clearly had to go deep into the Orwellian playbook to come up with that one. But what explains this bizarre formulation that obviously seeks to obscure the initiative and confuse the voter? One of the best explanations we’ve heard is that Ritchie hopes to so confuse the voters that they simply throw up their hands and skip this ballot item altogether. Remember, by law in Minnesota, a nonvote on a constitutional amendment question has the same effect as a “no” vote.

The problem for the anti-ID group is that even in this solidly blue state, voter ID is a very popular concept. “

“New Jim Crow in Guam: Where’s Holder?”

John Fund at National Review:

Eric Holder is scheduled to land in Guam today, the first U.S. attorney general ever to visit the U.S. territory, which serves as a center of U.S. military power in the Western Pacific. But the Associated Press reports that after meeting with local officials, Holder will not take any questions from journalists “because his tight schedule doesn’t give him time for a press conference.”

That may be, but the curious omission also spares Holder from any questions about why his department has refused to intervene in or comment on an important court case involving U.S. citizens who are being barred from voting on the island — a far more serious matter than the mainland voter-ID laws decried by Holder as the equivalent of “poll taxes.”



Los Angeles Times believes Texas Voter ID is “poll tax in disguise” – Not so says the Supreme Court!!

The Los Angeles Times says a law requiring a photo ID to vote attacks a key achievement of the civil rights era and that the hard legal truth is that photo ID law is a poll tax.  Hard legal truth.  Incredulous.

Not so says the Supreme Court, the liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform.   Add to that list:  The Department of Justice and the federal courts, who were very clear that the photo ID law in Georgia was not a poll tax.

But the Los Angeles Times find otherwise.