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Trigger happy on voter fraud

Denver Post: “But just when you think this must be electoral fraud, Nate Silver, the statistical guru at The New York Times’ fivethirtyeight blog, says everyone should take a breath. He has run the numbers and sees incompetency rather crime.”

This sounds like another Tova Wang 48 hours after the election pronouncement that no fraud took place.  Perhaps there is a third option: incompetency plus?

Georgia leads the way

Latest at PJ Tatler.

“While Texas talks and Virginia flinches, Georgia has been acting.  Thanks to savvy Georgia election lawyers, the peach state has pushed back against DOJ over and over again in the last year.  When DOJ objected to Georgia’s citizenship verification program, Georgia sued.  They just didn’t sue, they challenged Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act as unconstitutional (the law that forces states to seek federal approval for election changes.)  What did DOJ do?  Capitulate entirely, and quickly.  Just within the last few weeks, it happened again.  Facing difficulty getting the regulations which implement citizenship verification approved, Georgia once again sued in United States District Court.  What did DOJ do?  Capitulate again.”

Hmmmmmm.

“After the holocaust of bigotry that forms our sordid past, these puerile charlatans are telling us the only way to form a decent government is to reinstitute segregation and carve up our population into unnatural racial districts so foolish political overseers can continue to exploit our ignorance without having to sell their snake oil to someone who wasn’t raised on the exact flavor they were.”

Louisiana redistricting.

Lorain County (OH) adopts DOJ “recommendations” for Spanish ballots

HispanicOhio.
“Also, the elections board will hire an additional temporary elections worker who is bilingual and add an option to its phone system that will direct callers to a Spanish-speaking employee.  Absentee ballots will now include instructions in Spanish, although the ballots mailed out to voters will remain entirely in English. Finally, Adams said, each polling place in the county will be given a log book so poll workers can log issues dealing with Spanish-speaking voters. Adams said the log book was suggested by the elections board, which wants to more directly pinpoint where the Spanish-speaking voters are. To determine where there are a large percentage of Spanish-speaking voters, the Justice Department examined the voting rolls for people with Hispanic surnames.”