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Heritage Foundation Voter Fraud Conference – Oct 6 in D.C.

Hans von Spakovsky has this annoncement at the Heritage Foundation.  The Constitution and the Right to Vote: Protecting Against Voter Fraud:


In August, three voters in Wake County, North Carolina, were charged with voting twice in the 2008 presidential election, apparently for President Barack Obama. In April, a member of the executive committee of the NAACP in Tunica County, Mississippi, was convicted on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots and sentenced to five years in prison. She voted in the names of six other voters, as well as in the names of four dead voters. There are pending indictments of city council members and an ongoing grand jury investigation of ballot fraud in Troy, New York, over a 2009 primary involving the Working Families Party.


These are just a few of the current stories involving individuals violating the integrity (and security) of the U.S. election process. We have encountered this problem all too often in our history—a fact that the U.S. Supreme Court recognized when it upheld Indiana’s new voter ID law in 2008, because such fraud has been well documented by “respected historians and journalists.”


One of the respected journalists who has helped document such fraud is John Fund, a senior editor at the American Spectator, former Wall Street Journal columnist, and author of Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens our Democracy. Fund will be appearing at The Heritage Foundation on Thursday, October 6, to discuss voter fraud and the danger it poses to the integrity of the voter registration and election process. “The Constitution and the Right to Vote: Protecting Against Voter Fraud” is part of a series sponsored by the Center for Legal & Judicial Studies as part of Preserve the Constitution month. It will be hosted by former Attorney General Edwin Meese III.


Citizens often wonder what they can do to participate in the democratic process and protect the integrity of elections. Joining Fund in discussing that will be Catherine Englebrecht, executive director of True the Vote. True the Vote is an inspiring, citizen-driven initiative that started in Houston, Texas, in 2009 to protect the right to vote and the integrity of U.S. elections. It sent citizen volunteers to the polls as observers, and they were shocked at the violations of the law they found. True the Vote also used its volunteers to check the accuracy of the county’s voter registration list and found many problems, including individuals registered at vacant lots, voters who were not U.S. citizens, and numerous other problems.


I will also be speaking on the panel about the research I have done on voter fraud and how states can improve the security of their elections. Our panel will address these concerns in light of the 2012 election.



Arnold Trebach: “DOJ betrays MLK”

 Pajamas Media.


“I find myself uncomfortable even discussing the subject, because for most of my life I was a liberal Democrat — I was on the front lines of the original civil rights movement of the ’50s and ’60s as a protester on the streets and as a federal civil rights official. I was present in the deep South to expose and dismantle the vast machinery of violent racial discrimination which was truly a stain on our national honor. . .


What outrages me is that despite our country’s wonderful successes, too many seek to gain and hold power by cynically perpetuating and exploiting racial grievances. These racial racketeers seek to convince minority members that nothing will help them improve their lives unless they buy into the myth of racial helplessness and continuing victimhood.


Those leading this destructive scam are both blacks and whites in positions of power, including — to my astonishment — lawyers in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division who once were involved with me in securing the destruction of racial segregation.”

Full story here.

Human Events Review

A review of Injustice at Human Events.  A portion:

 Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department by J. Christian Adams paints the full picture behind the case along with fleshing out the legal atmosphere in which unequal treatment is the norm.

Adams, a former attorney for the Voting Rights Section of the Department of Justice, tracks the Black Panther case and the department radicals who made it, and so many more offenses, possible.

“The end result when racial extremists dominate such a powerful division of federal law enforcement is, in a word, lawlessness,” he writes.

Attorney General Eric Holder may be the biggest player here, a man steeped in racial grievances that help explain both his actions and those of the subordinates. For Holder and company, it’s too often “payback time” for past racial sins.

That the modern-day civil rights movement is part of this effort makes it all the sadder, because the movement worked tirelessly for years in search of true equality.

Mississippi’s Noxubee County is the flash point for the extremists’ cause, highlighted by election mischief-maker Ike Brown. The charismatic Brown “unleashed a toxic mix of raw political power and racial anger in an effort to switch the positions of historic oppressor and the historically oppressed,” he writes.