Prison time for former Mingo magistrate: U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston said a more than two year long prison sentence for Dallas Toler, 45, a former chief magistrate in Mingo County, was designed to send a strong deterrent message. On Monday, Toler, who is from Delbarton, received a 27 month long sentence for voter fraud. He knowingly registered a convicted felon to vote in 2012 and that person voted for “Team Mingo,” a slate of candidates that included Toler, in the 2012 May Primary Election. “Voters deserve clean elections and honest public officials,” said Booth Goodwin, U.S. Attorney for West Virginia’s Southern District. “Politicians have to follow the law like everybody else. When they forget that, they need to pay the price.”
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“Sacred Mission” Continues Inside DOJ Civil Rights After Adegbile Defeat
PJ Media obtained an email the Acting Assistant Attorney General sent yesterday regarding the Debo Adegbile defeat. The “sacred mission” continues, she says.
“Voter ID: Protecting the Integrity of our Elections”
Peter McGinley, a member of the Young Leaders Program at the Heritage Foundation, writes at The Foundry on the coming voter ID laws in the mid-term elections.
With midterm elections underway in Texas, the fight over voter ID will undoubtedly garner some serious attention in the national media in the coming weeks and months. Ten states will require voters to present photo ID when voting in this year’s midterms, despite vigorous attacks from liberal opponents and the Obama Administration.…Voter ID is just another common sense requirement in a world where photo identification is required for nearly everything. And it is only one of the measures, albeit an important one, that should be taken by election officials to secure the integrity of the election process.
“How to handle voter fraud”
ICYMI: Bruce Walker at American Thinker recommends more prosecutions of existing voter fraud, ending the secret ballot and strong Secretaries of States.
“Police on guard for fraud in repeat Beit Shemesh election today”
Update on the more interesting sagas on voter impersonation fraud overseas. Go to the Jerusalem Post
Voter ID offered free in every Alabama county
Voters who don’t have a valid photo ID to use in Alabama’s elections can get one free at county board of registrars’ offices. Alabama’s chief election official, Secretary of State Jim Bennett, said Monday that registrars’ offices in every county will be offering the free IDs, starting this week. The offices are open during regular courthouse hours, he said. In addition, the required photo IDs are available in the secretary of state’s office in the Capitol and, starting March 17, from vans that will be visiting all 67 counties…
“Voters, of course, ought to be who they claim to be,” the Republican secretary of state said.
“The Politicization of the IRS”
George Will Column: The most intrusive and potentially most punitive federal agency has been politicized; the IRS has become an appendage of Barack Obama’s party. Furthermore, congruent with exhortations from some congressional Democrats, it is intensifying its efforts to suffocate groups critical of progressives, by delaying what once was the swift, routine granting of tax-exempt status.
NC Democratic Party is broke, selling assets and letting staff go
WRAL North Carolina: An Executive Council member who attended Sunday’s meeting said Voller told members the party is “broke,” with only $60,000 in the bank. According to the member, Voller said he would have let some staffers go and is even evaluating whether the party can afford to keep the Goodwin House, its historic headquarters near the Capitol in downtown Raleigh. Update on the potential selling of their historic headquarters due to anemic fundraising.
LULAC Race Campaign Helps Wall Street Profit on Shortsale
The ethical depravity of the civil rights industry never fails to shock you. This New York Times article describes how LULAC helped one Wall Street mogul hassle HerbalLife in order to help a donor make money on short selling HerbalLife. “To pressure state and federal regulators to investigate Herbalife, an act that alone could cause its stock to dive, his team has helped organize protests, news conferences and letter-writing campaigns in California, Nevada, Connecticut, New York and Illinois, although several of the people who signed the letters to state and federal officials say they do not remember sending them, an investigation by The New York Times has found. His team has also paid civil rights organizations at least $130,000 to join his effort by helping him collect the names of people who claimed they were victimized by Herbalife in order to send the leads to regulators, the investigation found. Mr. Ackman’s team also provided the money used by some of these individuals to travel to Washington to participate in a rally against Herbalife last month.”
“Dwindling number of House members in ‘crossover’ seats”
Detroit Free Press: They are an endangered species in Congress and this is hunting season: A handful of Republicans holding House seats in districts that President Obama won in 2012, and Democrats representing districts that Mitt Romney won, are top targets for both political parties. Crossover congressional districts are at a 90-year low and set to dwindle further in November, a sign of increased partisanship among voters and an indication of bleak prospects for a Democratic return to the House majority this decade.