Linda Kerns has this op-ed.
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Kellog Foundation and SEIU Funded Voter ID Attacks
David Martosko has more at the Daily Caller about who pays for Brentin Mock’s Corn Flakes: “While True the Vote and other right-leaning campaigns were promoting ID requirements for voters and monitoring the implementation of ID laws at the state level, the Applied Research Center (ARC) was pushing back with claims that photo ID requirements at polling places were thinly veiled expressions of racism. Media Trackers, the conservative Wisconsin group, reported Monday that the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, founded by breakfast cereal magnate Will Keith Kellogg in 1930, committed $5.2 million to ARC between 2010 and September 2012. Voter ID laws are generally supported by Republican politicians and opposed by Democrats. The SEIU, like other large labor unions, campaigned aggressively for President Barack Obama’s re-election.”
And in an unusually overt collaboration, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) paid ARC more than $200,000 in 2011, Media Trackers reported, earmarking the financial transfers as ”consulting” fees.
Fox Appearance Saturday on DOJ and Enemy Terrorists
Nevada Secretary of State offers promising voter ID plan
The Las Vegas Review Journal opines: Secretary of State Ross Miller, Nevada’s top elections officer, has accomplished the rarest of political feats: finding previously unknown middle ground on a hyperpartisan issue.
“Redistricting, Not the Cause of the Continued GOP Majority”
Jim Geraghty at National Review Online:
The current popular vote in the House races
adds up to about 50.29 percent for the Democratic candidates and 49.7
percent for the Republican candidates. You could redraw the district
lines to give Democrats a winning percentage in 218 districts with those
figures . . . but the new lines would be as jagged, awkward, and
bizarre as the ones we have now.
With EAC federal audit of Virgin Islands to begin, elections supervisor disappears
… A federal audit of the V.I. Elections System scheduled to begin last week
is being delayed because of the absence of V.I. Elections Supervisor
John Abramson Jr.
However, before anyone panics.
St. Thomas-St. John Board member Lawrence Boschulte said Abramson
taking a post-election leave of absence – without informing all board
members – is “something he normally does.”
“The problem is, he doesn’t seem to have any obligation to any board members,” Boschulte said.
Link to the full story at virginislandsdailynews.com.
Texas Rep. Silvestre Reyes may have violated ethics rules and federal law
According to an Office of Congressional Ethics report
released Wednesday by the House Ethics Committee, the eight-term
Democrat “may have held campaign meetings on House property. If
Representative Reyes solicited or received campaign funds or held
meetings that were political in nature while on House property, he may
have violated House rules, standards of conduct, and federal law,” reads
the report.
“Representative Reyes may have improperly used campaign funds to pay for
certain expenses related to his daughter’s residence. If Representative
Reyes used campaign funds for personal use, he may have violated House
rules, standards of conduct, and federal law,” it continues.
Still Guilty: Mississippi Supreme Court Upholds Voter Fraud Conviction of One-Time NAACP Official
Lessadolla Sowers was found guilty last year on 10 counts of voter fraud for casting absentee ballots in the names of voters both living and dead. This week Mississippi’s Supreme Court upheld the convictions and the sentence – five years for each count, to be served concurrently. Sowers, identified at the time as a member of the Tunica County NAACP executive committee, denied her guilt but was refuted by witnesses, including voters who testified they “did not sign the applications or absentee ballots cast in their names and showing Sowers’ Post Office box address,” and by testing that “confirmed Sowers’ DNA on the inner seal of five envelopes.” The Commercial Appeal has more.
Grand jury indicts Oregon woman, for alleged ballot tampering
… a grand jury has indicted Swenson on six counts: two counts of altering a cast ballot, two more of voting more than once. Those are felonies. She’s also charged with two counts of official misconduct – a misdemeanor.
Link.
Election Day “Fiascos” Lead Hawaii to Consider All-Mail Balloting
“I do not think this change per se will increase voter turnout but I do believe it is a recognition of how we do things technically today, and definitely could decrease costs and free up classrooms on election day. I know the 2013 Legislature will actively discuss this issue. I am concerned about possible voter fraud with all mail-in and/or electronic balloting.” Legislatures in all 50 states will likely be considering changes to improve election efficiency and integrity.
Hawaii Reporter reports on the testimony of State Senator Sam Slom to the State Elections Commission: