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Minnesota Voter ID Amendment Shows 12-Point Advantage



“A proposed constitutional amendment that would require voters to show a government-issued photo ID before casting ballots continues to enjoy support of more than half the state’s voters, a new Star Tribune Minnesota poll has found.  A total of 53 percent of those polled support the amendment, compared to 41 percent who oppose it and 6 percent undecided, the poll found.”

Blink: OSCE monitors now say they’ll follow Texas law


AP is reporting that OSCE election monitors now intend to adhere to Texas election laws – after Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott made it clear that it’s not optional:


 


“Everts, head of OSCE’s long-term election observer mission, said the group is nonpartisan, comes down on no side of the voter ID debate and that U.S. elections are secure enough to where his monitors don’t need to join registered and authorized poll watchers already inside.”


 


This appears to directly contradict Alexander Bolton’s report in The Hill on October 20 that “United Nations-affiliated election monitors from Europe and central Asia will be at polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups, a concern raised by civil rights groups during a meeting this week,” and that the OSCE would be monitoring “array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places.”


 


And who were those “civil rights groups” raising concerns?  The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the ACLU, the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and Project Vote, according to Project Vote Executive Director Michael Slater.


 


Recall that back in March, NAACP President Ben Jealous and Senior VP for Advocacy Hilary Shelton led a delegation to the UN Human Rights Council to complain about Voter ID laws and urge UN monitors “to come in and observe” the alleged “suppression” at the polls.  That request was rebuffed.


 


Now OSCE’s Everts denies association with Project Vote and other partisan groups.


 


Looks like Bolton and The Hill, whose story sparked a huge backlash against the UN and OSCE, were misinformed.


 


Here are the locations where OSCE election observers will be deployed, no doubt in full compliance with all applicable state laws.

“Just another casual conversation about voter fraud”

 American Spectator.


So why was a field director for a safe congressman giving tips on voter fraud to a campaign volunteer? Because Virginia is currently a toss-up in the presidential, and jacking up turnout in Northern Virginia is crucial. Romney’s currently in the lead.


It’s easy to get distracted when a young woman (Lena Dunham) does a video for a campaign in which she compares voting for the president to her “first time,” but both demonstrate a profound lack of judgment on the part of the campaign, and possibly even desperation. What is shocking is not merely that Pat Moran has helpful suggestions to commit voter fraud — it’s the absolutely cavalier way in which he discusses the issue, as though this is a normal conversation to have, and that this information isn’t all that hard to come by. If it were to happen anywhere, Virginia’s the perfect target.


Opponents of voter ID laws cite lack of evidence of voter fraud as reason enough to dismiss proposed solutions. But this conversation is fairly educational: How can you gather evidence of illicit behavior when the harmful activity is so easy to commit?

Selective Interest: New York Times Discovers Voter Fraud

The revenue slumping New York Times discovers voter fraud, perhaps for the first time this fall.  Of course it took a Republican being accused for the Times to wake from it’s vote fraud denying slumber.

A better solution is for all parties to be interested in voter fraud, all the time, no matter who is involved, whether a Republican, or the son of a Democratic Congressman.