Author Archives: J Christian Adams

“GOP’s small-state edge boosts its Senate hopes”

It is only April 1 and the excuses for a potential poor showing by Democrats has already started.  

Republican senators are entrenching themselves in small states that elected Democrats a few years ago, brightening the GOP’s future if Americans continue their trend of voting for the same party in Senate and presidential races.

The Senate’s make-up has always given disproportionate power to less populous states. As liberal voters keep migrating to urban areas, many rural states are becoming more consistently conservative, a potential problem for Democrats.

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In Voter ID litigation, DOJ and interest groups harass North Carolina with discovery fishing expeditions

The Court allows DOJ and the pack of interest groups to harass North Carolina with burdensome discovery requests.  Federal courts should not allow these fishing expeditions in the desperate search for some “smoking gun” that is needed to overcome the fact that the plaintiffs have no evidence to support their claims.

Attorneys submitted the plan in early March. The agreement, according to court documents, dictated that the state elections board would provide plaintiffs’ attorneys with all electronic records “pursuant to search terms agreed upon by the parties” for review.

Only a portion of those documents, the ones that the plaintiffs and defendants deem to fit the discovery requests, will end up in the litigation. The plan prohibits attorneys from sharing the contents with anyone until an agreement is made. Defense attorneys have five business days for the first 3,000 documents, plus a day for each additional 1,000 documents, to identify any requested documents they consider privileged or feel do not meet the terms of the discovery request.

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Voter fraud investigated in Louisiana mayoral election



“The West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office have launched an investigation into allegations of voter fraud in the Port Allen mayoral race… the Sheriff’s Office received multiple complaints about hundreds of mail-in and faxed requests for early voting ballots that did not match voter information on file with the parish Registrar of Voters Office…


 


“Johnson said at least one of the ballots under review in the special election is from someone tied to the campaign of former Mayor Demetric ‘Deedy’ Slaughter, who is seeking re-election after her Nov. 16 recall, less than six months into her first term as mayor.”




Slaughter’s “historic” recall was prompted by an administration “peppered with controversy, beginning immediately after she took office in January when she was criticized for charging taxpayers the $2,500 cost of a trip to Washington, D.C., to attend President Barack Obama’s second inauguration.”


Florida voter roll cleanup delayed again, until after 2014 election



Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner told local election supervisors that efforts to identify and remove non-U.S. citizens from the state’s voter rolls will be delayed again – this time due to changes to the DHS Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, used to help identify potential ineligible non-citizens, that won’t be done before the 2014 election.


 


The state wanted to match potential ineligible voters found on the voter rolls with the names maintained by the federal government. Detzner said the changes proposed for the database should “enhance and improve the credibility” of the system, but that the work would not be complete until 2015…


 


Detzner did remind election supervisors that they remain responsible for removing any ineligible voters if they receive any information questioning a person’s voter registration status.


NYC Dem councilwoman’s campaign staff indicted for fraud, forgery



Really bad forgery:

“The three workers were paid a dollar for each signature they collected last summer on Arroyo’s re-election petitions. When staffers for Arroyo’s opponent, Julio Pabon, noticed signatures from celebrities like Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter and model Kate Moss, authorities launched an investigation,” which found “a whopping 81 percent of the signatures were invalid.”