Thrilled to be on a panel with Cleta Mitchell and Catherine Englebrecht at David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend Saturday. We’ll be talking about abuses of power at the DOJ and all sorts of other election law related matters. The full lineup for the weekend is here and has some barnburners like Senator Ted Cruz, John Fund, Michael Barrone, the always blunt Pat Caddell, Monica Crowley, Rep. Louie Gohmert, Apollo 17 Astronaut (and Senator) Harrison Schmitt and of course James O’Keefe, sans cameras.
Author Archives: J Christian Adams
Voter Turnout in Texas “Nearly Doubles” Under Voter ID Law
Daily Caller has the details.
Ohio Voter Fraud Indictment for Double Voting in 2012 Election
An indictment for voter fraud was handed down yesterday. Notice the expansive coverage devoted to the issue at the Medina Gazette.
PJ Media and my reading list.
Obamacare and Battleground Texas
Link.
Latest from Virginia AG Race
“Voter ID Safeguards Voting”
Much Ado at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Reversing Course on Voter ID at the Dallas Observer
Link here. That’s what I wanted them to do. Suppress me. I wanted to be suppressed so I could express my ire. . . .
“All this year the consistent narrative for the Texas voter photo I.D. law has been that photo I.D. is a Republican conspiracy to keep Democrats like me from voting. August personages of the political realm, like Dallas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, have declared that vote fraud is nonexistent in Texas. They say the whole photo I.D. thing is aimed solely at vote suppression.
“Yesterday I had to show Voter ID in order to vote. Today I still seem to be alive.”
At least one writer has some intellectual honesty on Voter ID.
“The Voter-ID ‘Dent’ That Wasn’t”
National Review notices something missing from the recent New York Times article headlined “Texas’ Stringent Voter ID Law Makes a Dent at the Polls” – the “dent,” or any other “detrimental effects of Texas’ new voter-ID law at this week’s polls.” Following a fanciful headline, and stories of a handful of voter ID “victims” who in fact cast regular ballots, the Times proceeds to bury the lede: Texas’s secretary of state, who might know something about all this, is quoted belatedly as follows: “This was our first statewide election with a photo ID requirement in place, and it was smooth, secure and successful.” The “dent” never does materialize, in the story or at the polls.
Dallas Democrat surprised he wasn’t “suppressed” by Voter ID
The Republicans have passed a law against stealing Twinkies, and our defense is going to be that we were only stealing Ding-Dongs? A Texas voter finds voter ID is not a “conspiracy” to “suppress” his vote after all, but a fair way to ensure the legitimacy of the vote: What a letdown. They allowed me to vote… I was hoping for a fight. In fact that’s why I went… All this year the consistent narrative for the Texas voter photo I.D. law has been that photo I.D. is a Republican conspiracy to keep Democrats like me from voting. August personages of the political realm, like Dallas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, have declared that vote fraud is nonexistent in Texas. They say the whole photo I.D. thing is aimed solely at vote suppression. That’s what I wanted them to do. Suppress me. I wanted to be suppressed so I could express my ire… On the other hand, I always get a little shiver when somebody like Eddie Bernice Johnson says there’s no such thing as vote fraud in Texas. I seem to remember writing a lot of stories myself about vote fraud in Dallas in the past, mostly in the part of town that falls within Congresswoman Johnson’s district… Had the photo I.D. requirements been in effect back then, they would not have touched the kind of fraud I saw, all of which involved mail-in ballots rather than voters showing up at the polls to vote… But does that make it a law without any legitimate reason for being? … The Republicans have passed a law against stealing Twinkies, and our defense is going to be that we were only stealing Ding-Dongs? Sanctity of the ballot works two ways, it seems to me. The right to exercise the franchise is sacred, and we ought to do everything we can to enable and encourage people to do it. But if the vote is sacred, then it also seems fair to say it shouldn’t be fake. I don’t believe there can be fake sacred votes. So is it not also important to do what we can to give everybody a certain comfort level where the legitimacy of the vote is concerned?