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FBI investigating voter fraud, doctoring of absentee ballots in Hawaii

About one week ago, state officials received reports about possible voter fraud on the Big Island, allegations that someone was doctoring absentee ballots, sources said.

State officials then notified FBI agents, members of the public corruption team based at the FBI’s Honolulu office, sources said.

It’s unclear whether the FBI will launch its own voter fraud investigation.

A source said the FBI is at least in the information gathering phase.

link.

NAACP leader imprisoned for voter fraud, diluting legal votes

While NAACP President Benjamin Jealous lashed out at new state laws requiring photo ID for voting, an NAACP executive sits in prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme.

In a story ignored by the national media, in April a Tunica County, Miss., jury convicted NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots. Sowers is identified on an NAACP website as a member of the Tunica County NAACP Executive Committee.

Sowers received a five-year prison term for each of the 10 counts, but Circuit Court Judge Charles Webster permitted Sowers to serve those terms concurrently, according to the Tunica Times, the only media outlet to cover the sentencing.  “This crime cuts against the fabric of our free society,” Judge Webster said.

Rest of story at Daily Caller.

Ooops: Alarmist’s Phony Stats on PA Voter ID

For weeks we’ve heard from the Brennan Center how millions are bound to be disenfranchised by Voter ID laws.  Brennan is skilled and providing an intellectual smokescreen for criminal wrongdoing in American elections.  Today, the Philadephia Inquirer discovers that the Voter ID alarmists aren’t quite shooting straight about the actual numbers of “disenfranchised.” 

“A team of Inquirer reporters placed calls to 325 of those older voters listed as lacking PennDot ID. Out of 101 people interviewed, 76 said they already had PennDot identification, despite being on the state’s list. That’s 75 percent.”

This is one of many errors in the alarmist’s statistics on PA Voter ID.  It is another reason why Pennsylvania Secretary of State Carol Aichele simply cannot respond to the DOJ request.  She will provide DOJ a invalid basis for Pennsylvania to be sued by Justice.

“ID of Access” Nothing New

Front page Tribune Review.

“Naytel Pack can’t do much in North Braddock without his driver’s license. He’s asked for it in the corner store, at the gas station, during stops by the local police – just about everywhere, “especially since I’m under 18,” the 16-year-old said.

In Mt. Washington, Tommy Smith, 47, may find himself blocked from bank transactions occasionally when he doesn’t have photo ID.


Morgan Hays might be bounced from the liquor store.


“Displaying ID is kind of par for the course,” said Hays, 21, of Brookville, ticking off a list of possible problem locations: tobacco stores, bars, some debit and credit card purchases. “I don’t have a big problem with it.”



Lee Rowland from the Brennan Center also has an outright falsehood in the article, which is nothing new from Brennan.  You an always count on Brennan to push outright statistical falsehoods about election integrity, and never face a critical question from reporters who take Brennan seriously.  Rowland makes unequivocal statements about voter fraud in the piece that are outright false, and I suspect she knows it.

Morning Bell: “Justice Blocks Voter ID at Every Turn”

“People seemingly voting after they’ve been dead for years. Drug kingpins buying votes from poor people to sway elections. Non-citizens being bussed to the polls and coached on how to vote. Stories of voting fraud are shocking, and states have been taking action to make sure that elections are secure. But the Justice Department, led by Attorney General Eric Holder, has blocked states at almost every turn.” Full story.

WSJ: “Alabama Seeks Court OK for Redistricting, Bypasses DOJ”

The Voting Rights Act has been challenged more
in the last two years than in the previous 45 years, and as the state of
Alabama goes to court seeking approval for its redistricting plan, it’s also
looking to have the preclearance provision of the law declared
unconstitutional.

Alabama’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Thursday asking a federal court
approve a redistricting plan instead of the Justice Department, which has
jurisdiction to review the plan under Section 5 of the law, AP reported.
(The law allows jurisdictions to seek approval from one or the other.)   Link to Wall Street Journal.

DOJ Intervenes Over Who Should Be Louisiana Chief Justice

 

“The Justice Department filed a memorandum in federal District Court in New Orleans Friday suggesting that Judge Susie Morgan can and should order that Justice Bernette Johnson’s initial tenure on the Supreme Court under the provisions of a consent decree count toward the seniority that would place her in line to be chief justice next year. The memo, filed by attorneys with the voting section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, notes the Johnson was elected to a temporary seat on the court as a result of the Chisom voting rights lawsuit and that, “Pursuant to the terms of the consent judgment in this case, the tenure she gained in the Chisom seat counts toward her total tenure on the Supreme Court. This Court can and should resolve this question as an issue of federal law under the consent judgment in this case.”

NOLA has the story.

Lessons from the Voter ID Debate in Kansas

“The latest data compiled by the Secretary of State of Kansas, Kris Kobach, about the state’s experience with voter ID once again shows that the claims by opponents of voter identification are wrong.  Contrary to the assertions of opponents to voter ID laws that there are large numbers of American voters without a government-issued photo ID, Kansas has had to issue a remarkably small number of IDs to individuals who did not already have one since its new law became effective—just 0.002 percent of registered voters.”

Full story.