Powerline reports on the Heritage Foundation forum last Friday.
Yesterday the Heritage Foundation hosted a forum it titled “Taxing the First Amendment: Using the IRS to censor speech?” Moderator Hans von Spakovsky hosted a panel including superlawyer Cleta Mitchell, former FEC chairman Brad Smith, my daughter Eliana Johnson and the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel. Both Paul Mirengoff and I attended the program.
Candidate takes “write-in” too far: A 65-year-old Philadelphia woman has been charged with election fraud after writing her name on a voting booth as someone was trying to cast a ballot… Investigators examined the booth and found the name “Dianah Gregory” scrawled in marker next to the button to select a “write in” candidate. Gregory, who was still at the polling place, admitted she wrote her name on the voting machines so voters would know how to spell her name.
Gregory, who has worked as a Democratic election worker for the 28th Ward in past elections, is accused of following a voter into the booth and trying to write her own name in on the ballot for the position of judge of elections. The voter got upset and left while Gregory wrote in her name, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20140221_Politics_and_crime__intersecting_in_Philly.html#smgQFuEGhhS2Y1tl.99
Gregory, who has worked as a Democratic election worker for the 28th Ward in past elections, is accused of following a voter into the booth and trying to write her own name in on the ballot for the position of judge of elections. The voter got upset and left while Gregory wrote in her name, according to the District Attorney’s Office.Gregory, who has worked as a Democratic Election Board worker for the 28th Ward in past elections, was campaigning for the position of… Judge of Elections.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20140221_Politics_and_crime__intersecting_in_Philly.html#smgQFuEGhhS2Y1tl.99
Hans von Spakovsky appeared on NPR to discuss felon voting and why felons should not be permitted to vote. He addresses Eric Holder’s call for “consistent” laws about felon voting, never mind the Elections Clause of the Constitution which very much encourages inconsistent laws and allows states to adopt their own standard.
Mayor Carlos Gimenez and his appointed elections supervisor, Penelope Townsley, have planned to delay the new precincts for another year. Counties are supposed to evenly distribute voters once every 10 years. Miami-Dade has not “re-precincted” since 2002. “It’s not a question of if re-precincting should be done in Miami-Dade County, but when,” [Florida Secretary of State Ken] Detzner said…
Some commissioners say they fear that would cause widespread confusion.
In fact, Miami-Dade’s decision to delay re-precincting until after the 2012 presidential election “to avoid voter confusion and inconvenience” actually contributed to the long lines and other problems reported on Election Day 2012, according to the Final Report issued by the Mayor’s Election Advisory Group.
National Review: “O’Keefe & Co. also captured a Battleground volunteer saying that the group forges signatures on voter-related documents. “It happens all the time,” she said.”
“Officials expressed concern about the potential for voter fraud. There are some people who live in Grants but have retained their Milan address.” Link.
“The fourth facet of laws about voting is that there is no such thing as a nonpartisan statute affecting any aspect of voting. Every law governing the franchise has some disparate partisan impact, and people on both sides of the partisan divide know it.” American Thinker.
Utah is considering legislation that may violate the public records provisions of the National Voter Registration Act. The public has a right to voter records, and Virginia found out the hard way that no state law may stand in the way of Section 8 of Motor Voter. It seems legislators in Utah haven’t heard about the litigation regarding this provision and are considering a state law that seems to conflict with the federal mandate.
James O’Keefe strikes again. He shows a left wing community organizing group illegally using status as deputy registrars to help the Democrat Wendy Davis in her campaign for Texas governor. By now, Democrats and community organizers ought to be concerned that he has embedded moles at every phase of their ground game. Expect more.