Breitbart has the story.

“Something is happening this election that has never happened before. Tens of thousands of patriotic Americans are searching voter rolls for dead and invalid voter registrations. These same patriots will monitor thousands of polling sites, recording any deviation from legal procedures and standing as silent sentinels against lawlessness in the election. True the Vote and affiliated groups across the nation are leading this charge.

For this public service, vile dishonest elements of the Left and their duped surrogates in Congress have attacked them. A parade of shameless attackers have pushed a dishonest narrative about these groups. Among them are the Demos (a group funded by the convicted felon George Soros), Common Cause, and the Brennan Center at NYU Law. These purportedly non-partisan organizations have played an aggressive role in attacking Tea Party efforts to ensure that the 2012 elections are free from voter fraud.


The most dishonest and racialist of the attackers, however, is Brentin Mock at The Nation. Apparently, this magazine has no editorial standards for honesty and accuracy, else they would terminate their relationship with Mock.
 
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But Mock’s inaccuracies aren’t just clumsy and small; they are also large and defamatory. They are racialist and malicious. Worse, some politicians have been duped by him.

Let’s stroll through Mock’s greatest hits.

Mock Myth #1 – “there are plenty of reports that show True the Vote has targeted neighborhoods that are majority people of color.”

There are also plenty of reports of Bigfoot and wood elves. All of these “reports” come from Mock’s fellow travelers who share Mock’s radical agenda. In truth, True the Vote monitors polls in every neighborhood. They have “targeted” (read: sued) two Republican-run election offices, including the Ohio Secretary of State. Mock cites not a lick of evidence for this assertion other than rumor and paranoia.

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Mock leads an October 8 Nation story with the headline: “Are True the Vote’s Poll Watching Activities Illegal?” This is a deliberate effort to chill and deter political association and involvement. It is designed to threaten law abiding citizens with the fear of arrest if they participate legally in the political process and exercise rights under federal and state law.

Who’s suppressing whom?

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Mock has even managed to push two politicians out on a limb with his dishonest attacks. Both Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) have fallen for it and sent accusatory letters to True the Vote. True the Vote has challenged the pair to attend their training seminars to learn the truth. They have even offered to meet with them and explain the True the Vote program. That neither Boxer nor Cummings have accepted tells you all you need to know about the motivation of the pair of politicians. As with Mock, myth is more compelling than truth.

It took two days, but the DNC has fired Stephanie Cabellero, the woman James O’Keefe caught on undercover video partipating in a scheme to illegally double vote in Florida.  Cabellero was a paid Obama Organizing for America staffer.

Stay tuned for more.  And if you work for the DNC or the Obama campaign, best hope you’ve played by the rules the last few months.  You never know who you might have been talking to if you haven’t.

Wall Street Journal.  “The Critics Go Zero for Two.”

“Mr. Holder and other critics have used voter ID laws as a political foil to charge racism and gin up black voter turnout this year. The decision last week by Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court to block the Keystone State’s law only for this election was a big hint that the claims of racial discrimination are specious. The South Carolina decision underscores the point.”

Details here at PJ Media.  The Lawyers Committee has jumped the shark.  They are sending nasty letters about this obvioulsy racist and intimidating billboard that factually describes Ohio law.

 The Foundry.

General Dempsey reverses course and now encourages the military to vote and not remain neutral during elections.  General Marshall, who never voted in his life, is no longer the standard or example to be followed.  The clear statement of the importance of voting should be applauded.  However, for many states, this statement is too late, it should have come weeks ago before state registration deadlines.  Many state registration deadlines have already passed and now with under 30 days to go until the election, some military voters may not be able to register.  For many states there are additional options to register or vote.  For those that can, new absentee ballots sent at this date will have more difficulty being returned in time by troops in the field.  Below is the excerpt from the article and video. 

The
military’s top commissioned and noncommissioned officers have joined
forces to urge service members to exercise their right to vote in the
upcoming election.

Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and his senior enlisted advisor, Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Bryan B.
Battaglia, recorded a video message for distribution throughout the
Defense Department.

“Throughout history, the men and women of our
Armed Forces have fought to protect and defend our constitution,
including our right to vote,” Dempsey said in the message. “Voting is
indeed democracy in action, and it defines, in no small part, what it
means to be an American.”

Link to full statement and video

 Link to the second float in the parade.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith’s response to the video showing Obama campaign staffers abetting a federal felony of double voting: fire Stephanie Caballero.  Matt Boyle at the Daily Caller has more, and it blows right back at the DOJ Voting Section:

“It is an outrage that Obama campaign staffers appear to be encouraging voters to engage in voter fraud,” Smith said in a statement. “But even more outrageous is that this is happening at the same time that the Obama administration is blocking state laws enacted to prevent voter fraud. Several states, including Texas, enacted commonsense voter ID laws that require voters to show a valid form of identification before they vote. But the Obama administration has challenged these laws in court, preventing them from being implemented before the November elections.”

Now that South Carolina has won the voter ID case against the Holder Justice Department, how big is the butcher’s bill?   How many federal tax dollars did the Voting Section waste defending the unobjectionable law?  This is especially tragic given the fact that the career lawyers inside the Voting Section produced a preclearance memo.  This memo recommended that the law be approved administratively.

Despite the professional career recommendation, “Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matthew Colangelo then overruled the career staff and ordered that the Department of Justice object to South Carolina’s voter ID.”  (Full story at PJ Media).

One source tells me that civil rights groups and the DOJ paid experts at least $50,000 in their failed efforts to oppose South Carolina Voter ID.  Another source estimates that the DOJ lawyers spent thousands of man hours, tens of thousands of out of pocket expenses and enormous political capital attacking the law. 

Now that the DOJ case is lost, the public has a right to know how much money Perez and Colangelo wasted to push a political and ideological agenda that didn’t square with the law.  Expect the FOIA requests to follow asking for ICM records, bills, travel, etc.