Author Archives: J Christian Adams

“Voter Fraud? Over 1,000 Broward County Voters Claim to Live at Florida UPS Stores”



As Florida’s efforts to comply with NVRA-mandated voter roll maintenance continue to be demonized as “disenfranchisement,” Media Trackers reports hundreds of people are illegally registered and voting in just one Florida county: 


 


More than 1,000 registered voters in Broward County unlawfully listed United Parcel Service (UPS) boxes as the address where they live, official records show…


 


4613 North University Drive is the address of UPS Store #3748, located at the Pine Ridge Square shopping center. Forty-six people are registered to vote at this address. More than half of them voted last November.


 


Also in Coral Springs, there are 20 active voters registered at UPS Store #3996 on Coral Ridge Drive. Another Coral Springs UPS Store has 40 active voters.


 


A review of voter records show the problem exists at UPS Stores throughout Broward County. Sixty-three active voters are registered at a UPS Store in Hollywood. Sixty-eight active voters are registered to vote at the UPS Store in Fort Lauderdale. The Hallandale Beach UPS Store has 115 registered voters.


 

“Attorney general cliffhanger puts VA provisional ballots to test Friday”

“True the Vote, an election watchdog group, said it is “keeping a close eye on counties like Chesterfield that refused to follow (state) guidelines and remove duplicate voter registrations ahead of the election.”

Chesterfield, south of Richmond, was among the counties where the Republican ticket noticeably underperformed, compared with 2009.


“Some jurisdictions stated they would run the removal program post-election … perhaps in January,” said TTV spokesman Logan Churchwell. “We’ll keep them to their word as we’ve already given statutory notice.”

VA Watchdog

ACLU and LULAC lawyers in federal court fighting Wisconsin Voter ID



“A federal hearing over Wisconsin’s voter-ID law began Monday with several minority witnesses, many of whom said their efforts to obtain a state-issued ID were met with bureaucratic obstacles that took time, money and legal assistance to overcome.”


 


Time, money and legal assistance: things ACLU and LULAC lawyers could’ve provided in service to minority voters needing IDs instead of an expensive federal lawsuit.


Last Minute GOTV Effort Comes Up Short in Effort to Elect Muslim Mayor

DOJ sent monitors to Hamtramck.  The outcome from the Detroit News:

Hamtramck Mayor Karen Majewski won a narrow re-election Tuesday, a day after a last-minute rush of nearly 200 voters filled out absentee ballots.


Majewski received 52 percent of the vote, winning by 98 votes over challenger Abdul Algazali, according to unofficial results.


In the race for three city council seats, the winners were incumbent Mohammed Hassan, Andrea Karpinski and Titus R. Walters.


On Monday, Deputy City Clerk August Gitschlag counted at least 170 people who streamed into Hamtramck’s City Hall, all informing his office they would not be in town on Election Day and needed absentee ballots.


The barrage of requests startled Gitschlag and his staff of one. Typically, when he worked during election seasons in Brownstown or Commerce Township, he would see no more than a handful of folks wanting to vote absentee the day before the election.


“This office gets like three of those kinds of requests” on Mondays, Gitschlag said.


But in this densely populated, working-class community, change is afoot. While Polish Americans have traditionally dominated local politics, the city’s Muslims have taken steps in recent years to pick up political representation inside City Hall.


Monday’s last-minute absentee ballot seekers all appeared to be of Arab or Bengali descent, Gitschlag said.


Algazali, a councilman and chiropractor, might have been the nation’s first mayor from Yemen had he defeated Majewski, a Polish-American project manager who works at the University of Michigan. Algazali could not be reached for comment Tuesday.


Following the November 1999 election, the Justice Department received complaints from Arab and Bengali-American voters in Hamtramck claiming violations of the Voting Rights Act, saying their citizenship had been unfairly challenged by private citizens during the general election.


The city’s consent decree in that case ended several years ago, but the Justice Department on Tuesday was present to ensure that Hamtramck was complying with the Voting Rights Act.


In 2004, the Al-Islah Islamic Center on Caniff, just west of the city’s main commercial drag, made national headlines when it was allowed to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer daily. Earlier this year, congregants won a battle to expand to a larger building, to the dismay of some residents afraid of the proliferation of mosques in the area.