More “non-existent” voter fraud. Via the Union Leader: New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph A. Foster announced the indictment of Lorin C. Schneider, Jr., a 20-year resident of Carver, Massachusetts, for “wrongful voting” in New Hampshire in the 2012 Presidential election, “in violation of RSA 659:34, I (e).” Giving false information to register and vote in a federal election is also a violation of federal law.
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UPDATE: Texas Voter ID Trial Still Set for September 2014
“Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos rejected the State of Texas’ request to move the start of trial in the voter ID case from September 2, 2014 to March 2015. The September trial date leaves open the possibility that a ruling on the law could come in time to impact procedures in the November 2014 general election.”
Texas Voter ID Trial Date May Be Postponed Until After 2014 Election
“A federal judge in Corpus Christi today will consider whether the state’s Voter ID law should be considered by a court before the 2014 election, 1200 WOAI news reports. “U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzalez Ramos has set the trial date for next September,” but “State officials argue that a September 2014 vote would be too late for elections officials to deal with the outcome of the trial in an election that would happen just two months away.” Officials report that the first statewide implementation of Texas’ new photo ID requirement went smoothly, and turnout was up significantly compared to the 2011 election (8 percent vs. 5 percent of registered voters). Updates as they occur.
Yet “Democrats have repeatedly claimed that Voter I.D. laws ‘disenfranchise’ hundreds of thousands of Texas voters, mainly minority voters who would be more likely to vote Democrat. But they have been unable to produce individuals who have a logical claim of being unable to obtain one of the free Voter Identification Certificates being handed out by the Secretary of State’s office.”
Obamacare Navigator Data Being “Cross Polinated” to Leftist Groups
NC Gov: “DOJ opposition to Voter ID and early voting law is political move”
MSNBC reports: North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory defended the controversial
voter ID law he signed into law in August, arguing that opposition is
purely political. “Voter ID laws are common sense,” McCrory told The Daily Rundown’s Chuck
Todd on Wednesday from Scottsdale, Ariz., where he is attending the
Republican Governors Association meeting. “We require an ID to get
Sudafed in North Carolina, to get food stamps in North Carolina.”
The Department of Justice has filed to block the law, but the GOP governor even argued that too was a political move. “Some of the voter ID controversy is more created than real,”
said McCrory, who pointed out that it was “ironic”they were being sued
by the DOJ even though other states, like New York, don’t even offer
early voting.
Wisconsin Supreme Court intervenes in Voter ID wars
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has stayed on the sidelines while state litigation has delayed implementation of the voter ID law. Finally, they agree to step in.
Madison — The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take
up two separate cases over the state’s voter ID law, which has been
blocked since shortly after it took effect in 2012. The move by the high court cancels oral arguments that were to be
held next month before the District 2 Court of Appeals in Waukesha in
one case. In the second case, the Supreme Court is agreeing to review a
decision by the Madison-based District 4 Court of Appeals.
The Supreme Court’s action comes six days after the Republican-run state Assembly voted to soften the voter ID law
in hopes of overcoming four legal challenges. The state Senate is also
controlled by Republicans, but leaders in that house have said they want
to see how courts react to the cases before deciding whether to tweak
the voter ID requirement. The short orders issued Wednesday by the Supreme Court put the two
state cases before it and clear a path for decisions to be rendered by
June.
Link to story at Journal Sentinel.
“Ohio Senate OKs bill trimming one week from early voting”
Columbus Dispatch.
Campaign Finance Laws Used to Threaten Political Opponents
This is why the speech regulators can never be given power to regulate political speech – it is a power to be abused. The Wall Street Journal: The subpoena demand for the names of donors to nonprofit groups that aren’t legally required to disclose them is especially troubling. Readers may recall that the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent the tax-exempt applications of several conservative groups to the ProPublica news website in 2012. The subpoenas don’t spell out a specific allegation, but the demands suggest the government may be pursuing a theory of illegal campaign coordination by independent groups during the recall elections. If prosecutors are pursuing a theory that independent conservative groups coordinated with candidate campaigns during the recall, their goal may be to transform the independent expenditures into candidate committees after the fact, requiring revision of campaign-finance disclosures and possible criminal charges. Another reason for skepticism is the probe’s timing as Mr. Walker’s 2014 re-election campaign looms. This is the second such investigation against Mr. Walker in three and a half years, following one that began in the office of Milwaukee County Democratic District Attorney John Chisholm in spring 2010.
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“Health exchanges differ over including voter registration”
Yow: “The federal government, which is running exchanges for 36 states, determined that voter registration must be offered to consumers because the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rules on Medicaid eligibility.”
“Utah town forgets to hold election — again”
What if you didn’t hold an election and no one showed up?