Full story here.  “Warrants state that Hodges and McLean both cast early ballots at Chavis Heights Community Center and then voted on Election Day at their regular polling places. Meanwhile, Leach filed a “no-excuse absentee ballot” on Oct. 29, 2008, and then voted six days later at a polling place on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, according to an arrest warrant.”

This would mean that the four defendants both tainted the vote totals in North Carolina in the Presidential election in 2008, but also committed a federal crime.  The Justice Department, can, and should file federal charges against the foursome for voting twice in the Presidential election in 2008. 

I’ll be on Charlotte’s blowtorch WBT-AM 1110 in the 5 o’clock drive hour today with Vince Coakley.  Topic: The Justice Department Civil Rights Division’s politicized hiring which is the subject of a Pajamas Media series, including this and this story.

Latest at Family Security Matters.

Boston Globe.

Story here. 

FOXNY reports on investigation into aliens voter fraud.

An update in Phillyburbs.com. “The case centers on 1,600 absentee ballot applications challenged by the Bucks County Republican Committee in the weeks leading up to the November election.  Board of elections employees rejected almost 900 ballot applications that were incomplete or questionable, an unprecedented number that made elections officials suspicious.”

I previously reported how the DOJ sent monitors to Noxubee County Mississippi for the election last week, but had to borrow lawyers from the Housing Section willing to go.  I’ve learned that another DOJ lawyer (who is willing to protect all, not just some) voters is this moment en route to Noxubee County to monitor the counting of absentee ballots there.  Noxubee has notorious numbers of ballots cast by absentee – sometimes hovering around 25%.  Indeed, sources indicate that nearly 1,000 absentee ballots were cast last week out of between 3,500 and 4,000 hundred votes.  The attorney is being sent to watch the poll workers rule on the validity of each absentee ballot.  Expect the DOJ to trumpet the arrival of the lawyer as proof positive that the sworn testimony of former Voting Section Chief Christopher Coates was inaccurate. 

Pajamas Media is doing a multipart series arising out of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit it filed against the Justice Department seeking the resumes of the attorneys hired in an unprecedented hiring blitz since January 2009.  The second installment appears today.  It answers the question why states should go to federal court for approval of election law changes in the 16 Section 5 states, instead of going to the Justice Department.

Reviewing the Resumes: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Voting Section

“Eric Holder’s Justice Department wields enormous power over the American political landscape heading into the 2012 elections. Under the Voting Rights Act, sixteen states must submit any election law change to the Justice Department for approval. The law also gives the states the right to go to federal court for approval instead.

States need to understand the biographies of the DOJ officials who will be responsible for managing the review of these submissions. PJM has learned their backgrounds weigh in favor of bypassing the DOJ and going straight to court. . . .”

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