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Are Overseas Paper Ballots Obsolete?
Of course not. But the biggest pit someone stepped in in the last Presidential debate involved bayonets, which we learn today are very much NOT obsolete.
North Carolina State Election Board Changes the Rules in the Middle of the Game
We’ve obtained this memo from the North Carolina State Board of Elections. It changes the rules of the game in the middle of the game, and seems calculated to aid a certain flagging campaign for President.
Texas AG to UN: Don’t mess with our elections
Texas Attorney General Abbott has a message for the UN observers who are coming at the invitation of civil rights groups: don’t mess with Texas. His letter is here.
In Tennessee, “Early voting swells, despite Democrat concerns over new ID law”
“Alluding to Tennessee’s recent voter ID law, the release from the Department of State stated that, based on the most recent numbers, only 31 voters statewide had been forced to vote with a provisional ballot because they had showed up at polls without a state- or federal-issued photo ID. Of those 31 individuals, 16 had already returned with proper ID and had their ballots counted.” The early vote count is now up to 491,575 – nearly one in eight of Tennessee’s registered voters – according to the Secretary of State’s website.
“Droves of voters have taken the opportunity to cast ballots early,” according to reports based on numbers published by Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett.
“Video: Reporter Asking Questions Threatened by Eric Holder’s Bodyguard”
After Eric Holder visited the DOJ Voting Section yesterday, this happened outside the building at 1800 G Street.
Military Ballots Lost in Afghan Crash?
A source familiar with the internal operations of FVAP provides us the following email which was sent this morning: Dear Election Official, On Friday, a transport aircraft crashed at Shindand Air Base in Afghanistan and was destroyed along with 4,700 pounds of mail inbound to Afghanistan. We do not know if there were any ballots in the destroyed mail, but all of the mail was bound for the zip code 09382 (Shindand, Farah, and Camp Stone (also known as Herat)). If you have sent any ballots to the zip code 09382, we recommend you attempt to contact the voter and resend a new ballot, as the first ballot may have been destroyed in the crash and fire. Voting Assistance Officers will be informing Service members in the area impacted by this incident to submit a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (FWAB). Thank you for all that you do for military and overseas voters. If you have any questions, call us toll-free at 800-438-8683 or send an email to Paddy J. McGuire Deputy Director for Election Official Assistance Federal Voting Assistance Program 571-372-0739 – direct (note the new number) 703-589-8980 – mobile
“Senator: Defense Department Not Complying With Election Law”
“Recent communication from the Federal Voting Assistance Program, as well as an internal review by the military postal system, indicates that DoD is not complying with the law.”
Weekly Standard.
United Nations Election Monitoring Targets Revealed
I have the story and the documents here at PJ Tatler.
Florida counties receiving fraudulent letters expect DOJ to investigate
Florida Today reports on the false “fishy” letters to registered Republicans attempting to suppress their vote.
Since Friday, elections officials in 14 other counties — including
neighboring Indian River, Orange and Volusia — reported similar
incidents of voters receiving suspicious, official-looking mail alleging
that they are potentially ineligible to vote.Scott
said the only pattern that elections officials discovered so far is
that all but one of the voters who received the letters are registered Republicans, with the other voter not enrolled in a political party, and all of them consistently vote in elections.Scott said she expects the U.S. Department of Justice to be part of the investigation.
It appears the counties expect the Department of Justice to respond quickly and investigate the illegal letters.