Here. Linn County Auditor Joel Miller said he just reported an instance of voter fraud to the Linn County Sherrif. He said voter fraud is rare in Linn County. More rare still, is that the voter, who attempted to vote this morning after casting an absentee ballot, reported herself for the wrong-doing. “I am not going to comment why she did it,” Miller said. “I don’t know the person. I just know it occurred.”
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Car Of Philadelphia Mayoral Candidate Vandalized
At the link. PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Philadelphia police are searching for those responsible for vandalizing the car of the Republican candidate for mayor.
Mayoral candidate Karen Brown, who is running against incumbent Michael Nutter, says someone splattered paint on her car in South Philadelphia early Tuesday morning.
Brown said the vandalism and other campaign problems are signs of politics as usual in Philadelphia.
“This is what happens in Philadelphia politics, you can’t even have a fair race. It’s bad enough I got my party actually doing ballots without me on it … and then I got people vandalizing my car on the day of the election,” Brown said.
Brown says her car has been vandalized at least 10 times. So far, no arrests have been made.
Latest at Rule of Law: The Guitars Gently Weep
Not election related: The Guitars Gently Weep.
Attack of the poll worker
Ohio.
Election officials in Philadelphia handing out Democrat sample ballot!
More at Election Journal.com.
DOJ supports Texas coalition districts
DOJ files support for minority coalition districts, allowing blacks and hispanics to team up to require majority minority districts. This has the effect of creating a legal obligation to form majority minority districts when neither minority has enough population to form a district on their own.
Voter ID coming to Mississippi
It looks like voters are about to approve voter ID today in Mississippi.
Holder on Senate Hot Seat
Attorney General Holder is live before the Senate Judiciary Committee right now. Live feed. (10am Tuesday).
Eric Eversole at King Street Patriots in Houston
Here is a video of Eric Eversole’s appearance at King Street Patriots last night in Houston, Texas to talk about military voting (after some introduction by Bob Marley and Catherine Engelbrecht). He talks about FVAP on-base registration, enforcement of military voting rights and voter participation by the military and military voting “being a second class issue inside the Civil Rights Division.. . . The biggest example was there was clear evidence. . . that it can take up to 30 days for a ballot to travel to a war zone. . . but the DOJ took a position that as long as the county mailed out a ballot 30 days before an election, that was good enough” as far as DOJ was concerned. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) also makes an appearance by video.
Von Spakovsky v. Overton on Voter ID
On NPR.