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Altered voter records discovered in investigation of Fulton County, Georgia’s elections “debacle”



A January 31 Georgia State Elections Board hearing revealed evidence of more than just mismanagement in Fulton County’s elections office:


 


Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is investigating more than 100 voter complaints against the county from last year, said the evidence points to possible document tampering and calls into question the vote totals Fulton reported.  “Obviously, it appears that the documents were altered after the poll workers signed it,” Kemp said.


 


The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on the potential voter fraud and beleaguered Fulton County’s recent history of elections “embarrassments.”

Roll Tide: Speaking at University of Alabama Wednesday


Along with Jack Park, I’ll be speaking on a panel at the University of Alabama School of Law.  The event is sponsored by the Federalist Society. We will discuss the Shelby case and Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.  I’ll have a couple copies of my book Injustice, also.

Time: Noon.  January 30, 2013
Place: University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa AL.

My march through the SEC law schools continues next Wednesday with USC.  Ole Miss later this semester.  Details to follow.

North Carolina: “Voter ID likely to pass; will photo be needed?”

Link to the story.  Aversion to photographs and common sense in North Carolina.  Excerpt below:

The legislature seems poised to once again pass a voter
identification bill, legislation that has sharpened partisan lines and
sparked heated debate regarding voter fraud and voting rights.

The GOP-controlled legislature passed a bill in 2011 requiring
voters to show a photo ID at the polls, only to have Democratic Gov. Bev
Perdue veto it. That won’t be a problem this year, because Republican
Gov. Pat McCrory has voiced his support for such a measure.

But it is still not clear what form the voter ID bill will take.

…Earlier this month, House Speaker Thom Tillis of Cornelius and McCrory
voiced support for a compromise measure that would allow voters to show
forms of identification that don’t include a photo, such as a
registration card or other government documents.

Montana Aims to Reduce Long Lines on Election Day by Ending Same Day Registration



Representative Liz Bangerter (R-Helena) says the bill (HB30) will ease the workload for election administrators on Election Day.


 


The last few Presidential elections in Montana have seen voters standing in line for hours at polling places. Thousands of those people statewide need to register at the same time. Supporters of dropping same-day registration say taking that service out of the process would shorten those lines and free up election officials to work on getting people into the voting booth more quickly…


 


“I believe strongly that voting is a right and with all rights come responsibilities,” Bangerter said. “Sometimes those responsibilities include making sure that you are registered to vote in a timely manner.”


 


The bill, which closes registration on the Friday before Election Day, passed out of committee on a party line vote.


“Jeering Inaugural DOJ Lawyer Typical Bureaucratic Partisan Ideologue”

 Breitbart has it.

“So when Obama campaign signs hang inside the Department of Justice Voting Section, no big deal. When a DOJ employee writes a report so shoddy on terrorist interrogation that Attorney General Michael Mukasey is forced to personally rewrite it, the Obama administration promotes her and sends her to a DHS job to further damage national security. When billions of your tax dollars are handed over in grants to radical groups and failing energy projects, nobody protests – because the bureaucrats all agree, it is good.”

Inside the Obama Cave

If you want to see why the GOP lost the Presidential election in 2012, go here and read Inside the Obama Cave.

Here’s the bad news for Republicans: the consultancy class, DC Republicans, and the party structure can’t even begin to think in these data driven terms.  At best, a scaled down model of the Obama 2012 model will be in place in 2016, while the Obama model of 2012 will be made obsolete by these same people creating something more powerful in 2016.  Meanwhile, huge amounts of GOP money will go into TV advertising.