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Combating voter fraud shouldn’t be a partisan issue, Fund said, noting that Rhode Island’s Democratic-controlled Legislature also had to pass an ID law.
“Rhode Island last summer passed a photo ID law,” Fund said. “And the reason was there was compelling evidence that, in Democratic primaries and in some general elections, reform candidates were having the election stolen out from under them by machine hacks who were rigging the ballot — especially with absentee votes — and they were preventing legitimate candidates from replacing machine candidates.”
The chief sponsor of the bill, Fund said, was the only black senator in the state.
“What we have to have is not only a campaign against voter fraud, but we also have to have a set of laws that are clear, understandable, transparent, and not subject to vague interpretations of the courts,” Fund said. “If we don’t do something to make sure that voter fraud is contained and voting incompetence by election officials is minimized, we’re going to have a situation just like Florida 2000 — except it could be across the whole country.”
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“Voter fraud is real”
Jack Kelly with the Pittsburg Post-Gazette opines on voter fraud and the need for photo ID.
Former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, who is black, said vote fraud is rampant in African-American districts like his in Alabama.
“The most aggressive contemporary voter suppression in the African-American community is the wholesale manufacture of ballots at the polls and absentee, in parts of the Black Belt,” Mr. Davis said. “Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too mentally impaired to function cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights.”
Laws requiring photo IDs suppress minority voting, Democrats charge. The facts say otherwise. In Georgia, black voter turnout for the midterm election in 2006 was 42.9 percent. After Georgia passed photo ID, black turnout in the 2010 midterm rose to 50.4 percent. Black turnout also rose in Indiana and Mississippi after photo IDs were required.
“Concerns about voter identification laws affecting turnout are much ado about nothing,” concluded researchers at the universities of Delaware and Nebraska after examining election data from 2000 through 2006.
BigGov: DOJ Voting Section Communications With Project Vote
Link at BigGovernment.com.
“Judicial Watch has done it again. It has produced–following a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ)–documents that suggest extensive coordination and communications between the DOJ Voting Section and former ACORN affiliate Project Vote.
Project Vote appears to be directing DOJ resources toward particular states; is having meetings with DOJ staff; and is even recommending lawyers to work in the Justice Department Voting Section that will oversee the 2012 presidential election.”
Thomas Sowell Christmas Book Pick: Injustice
The esteemed Thomas Sowell, in his latest syndicated column, lists his suggested book gifts for the holidays. Like Sean Hannity’s list, Sowell includes Injustice.
National Review Editors: Voter ID is Not Jim Crow
Link here.
“This comparison insults the heroic work of so many who helped end the injustices of Jim Crow. It is also quite ironic to hear Holder refer to the fire hoses, bullets, bombs, and billy clubs that voters had to confront in the 1960s, given that his Justice Department dismissed the voter-intimidation lawsuit it had won by default against the New Black Panther Party and its billy-club-wielding thugs, who menaced voters in Philadelphia in 2008. His Justice Department has made it clear that it does not believe in the race-neutral enforcement of our voting-rights laws. . . .
Holder’s foolish imaginings about voter-ID requirements should come as no surprise. After all, the government-transparency group Judicial Watch has discovered through a Freedom of Information Act request that the White House and the Justice Department have been consulting with — and getting recommendations on new hires from — current and former officials of ACORN, dozens of whose employees have been convicted of voter fraud.”
Speaking at Southern Republican Leadership Conference
I will be speaking at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Charleston, South Carolina which runs from January 18-21.
Motion for default filed against DOJ in voting case
Here is the motion for default filed yesterday against the Justice Department by Nueces County, Texas. It says DOJ missed the deadline to file an answer in the redistricting case.
Von Spakovsky on PBS Newshour on Voter ID
Here is the video. Somehow the host became disoriented in the middle of the segment. Footage from True the Vote’s rally in Austin to greet Eric Holder is also in the segment.
Supreme Court and Justice Department on Collision Course Over Texas Redistricting and Minorities’ Voting Rights
A story at Alternet.org in which both the Left and the Right can agree on one thing.
There is a collision coming.
Sean Hannity and Quin Hillyer Agree! Injustice among best books of 2011!
Thanks guys. Both name Injustice (link over there on the left <—-) as a best choice for holiday presents from 2011 books.
Hannity picks Injustice, as does Quin Hillyer, for best book gifts for the season. Hillyer writes:
“This is the single most important, ‘must-read’ book of the year. Adams, one of the two whistleblowers who left the Obama-Holder Justice Department rather than endure its lies and lawlessness, details many hair-raising, nearly unbelievable examples of the Holderites’ willful disregard for the laws as written.”