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Iowa SOS: Fight voter fraud AND encourage voter turnout

Iowans deserve to be able to vote and they deserve to have their vote protected.

Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz rejects the media’s false choice between promoting voter turnout or protecting the integrity of elections:

The fact is we can and must do both.


Every illegal vote negatively affects Iowa’s elections by canceling out your vote. Iowa Code Section 39A.1 states, “It is the intent of the general assembly that offenses with the greatest potential to affect the election process be vigorously prosecuted and strong punishment meted out through the imposition of felony sanctions.”
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The real question, though, is why the Iowa Poll would present this as a false choice. No Iowan would want an eligible voter to be blocked from voting, but at the same time, no Iowan would raise their hand asking to have their vote canceled out by an illegal vote.

There’s no reason you can’t increase voter turnout while still protecting Iowans’ votes, and we have.

Against All Odds: “Advocates” Promise Appeal of Kansas Decision

The People for the American Way vows an appeal of a ruling that allows Kansas to ensure that only citizens are registering to vote.  The promise illustrates how some groups are dedicated to litigating vulnerabilities to criminal conduct into American elections.

“We will appeal it,” said Sam Wercinski, executive director of the Arizona Advocacy Network. He said no official decision has been made, but he expects voting-rights advocates will file an appeal “within 30 to 60 days.”

But state officials in Kansas and Arizona said they are confident the latest decision will stand – and that they do not intend to wait for appeals.

“FBI blocked in corruption probe involving Sens. Reid, Lee”

The Washington Times with a blockbuster headline of the Justice Department blocking a FBI probe into corruption in the Senate.

FBI agents working alongside Utah state prosecutors in a wide-ranging corruption investigation have uncovered accusations of wrongdoing by two of the U.S. Senate’s most prominent figures — Majority Leader Harry Reid and rising Republican Sen. Mike Lee — but the Justice Department has thwarted their bid to launch a full federal investigation

“Poll worker sentenced to 5 years for voter fraud serves only 8 months”



One month for each illegal vote:


 


“A Hamilton County judge released a former poll worker sentenced to five years in prison for voter fraud after eight months on Tuesday.


 


“On July, 7, Melowese Richardson, 58, pleaded to four counts of illegal voting in 2009, 2011 and 2012 in the courtroom of Hamilton County Judge Robert P. Ruelman.  One count charged her with voting for her sister, who is in a coma. Four other counts were dropped in exchange for Richardson’s plea.”


 
At the time she was charged, Richardson was in denial that voting twice and casting ballots for other people constituted voter fraud. Hopefully she won’t return to her multiple-voting ways – or her poll worker job.


NAACP Goes Back to UN To Air Complaints About American Elections

Here we go again.  The NAACP is going to the United Nations to complain about American elections.  The UN Human Rights council is comprised of governments which hardly respect human rights.  Among the members of the UN Human Rights Council: China, Cuba, Kuwait, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam.  The NAACP is going to complain about a variety of things including felon disenfranchisement.

Some of these countries don’t have meaningful elections. Some of these countries don’t let women vote.  All of these countries have despicable human rights records.  It says a great deal about the NAACP that they would turn to a gang like this to complain about American elections.

h/t Twitchy.

Wash Post: “Adegbile debacle will have impact on mid-terms”

The Washington Post anticipates the tin ear nomination of Adegbile will have a negative impact on Democrats in the mid-term elections.  

You’re going to hear a lot more about Debo Adegbile before the 2014 midterm elections. And that’s a bad thing for Democrats trying desperately to hold on to their Senate majority.

Adegbile, President Obama’s choice to run the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, watched his confirmation to that post — once assumed to be likely — crumble in the matter of a few hours this past week. 

…Even more politically problematic than the Democratic defections is the fact that a number of vulnerable Democratic senators up for reelection in November voted for Adegbile — and have nothing to show for it. They include Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu, North Carolina’s Kay Hagan and Alaska’s Mark Begich, who went out on a limb for their side only to see it sawed off behind them. “It’s a 30-second ad that writes itself,” lamented one Democratic aide about the vote.