If the state’s controversial voter ID law is put back in place before
November, Wisconsin election officials say they’re ready to help
election officials and the public prepare. Link to more.
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Tennessee Judge dismisses challenge to Voter ID law
A state judge today dismissed a challenge to Tennessee’s controversial
voter identification law, ruling six weeks before the November general
election that requiring voters to show state-issued ID at the ballot
booth does not violate the Tennessee constitution. Link.
Why do FVAP Officials ridicule Kris Kobach?
Election Law Center has learned that certain top officials at FVAP with hyper-partisan backgrounds routinely mock Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach at official events and duringg routine work hours, even to other state election officials. Maybe a little less mockery and a little more attention to detailg might have prevented telling Wisconsin UOCAVA voters they could mail in ballots by November 16. Hopefully someone has received a letter of deficiency for this collossal mistake.
“Conservative Veterans of Voting Wars Cite Ballot Integrity to Justify Fight”
Roll Call profiles. Less well-known than Indiana election lawyer James Bopp Jr., who’s made a national name for himself challenging the political money laws, conservative veterans of voting wars such as Hans von Spakovsky and J. Christian Adams nonetheless play a role similar to Bopp’s in their behind-the-scenes fight to protect ballot integrity. Both former Justice Department officials, von Spakovsky and Adams have worked alongside such anti-fraud activists as Thomas Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, and Catherine Engelbrecht, president of the tea party group True the Vote.”
“Call them the voter fraud brain trust. A cadre of influential Washington, D.C., election lawyers has mobilized a sophisticated anti-fraud campaign built around lawsuits, white papers, Congressional testimony, speeches and even best-selling books. . . .
“The New York Times and New Black Panthers Protect Election Lawbreakers”
Latest at Front Page Mag. (With a hat tip to the guy who turned me onto Walter Duranty. You know who you are.) Once upon a time in America, we esteemed law abiding citizens who helped law enforcement detect law breakers – especially when it comes to the sanctity of elections. But this isn’t the America we used to know. Instead, when election integrity groups like Houston-based True the Vote help detect countless problems with American elections – including people who illegally voted twice in the 2008 Presidential election from different states – they are slandered and attacked by the New York Times, academia and formerly relevant civil rights organizations. When the Pew Charitable Trust reports that there are 2,000,000 ineligible voters on the rolls, nothing happens. But when volunteers seek to find and remove them, they are attacked as racists. Something has indeed changed. The 2012 election will have something never before seen in American elections – ordinary citizens in every corner of the country analyzing the voter rolls to see if dead and ineligible voters remain registered. On election day, volunteers will fan out across thousands of American polling places armed with pen and paper and record what happened. For exercising this noble civic undertaking, the headlines of the New York Times scream “Voter Harassment Circa 2012.” The Times tells us “a Tea Party group, True the Vote, descends on a largely minority precinct and combs the registration records . . . nonexistent [voter fraud] is used as an excuse to reduce the political rights of minorities, the poor, students, older Americans and other groups that tend to vote Democratic.” This is an outright lie. “
“Once upon a time in America, if a group of citizen volunteers set out to help election officials detect problems with the voter rolls, they would have been praised. If a group of citizen volunteers had detected scores of dead people on the voter rolls they would have received broad accolades from all corners of America.
“The Snowbird Vote Takes Wing”
Human Events. Double Voting. Same federal election.
Will the Justice Department act?
Al Sharpton Voter ID Road Show in SC
Al Sharpton was in the Palmetto state. Race, front and center: “Gov. (Nikki) Haley, you may have the Confederate flag in front of the capital, but this is not the Confederacy no more,” Sharpton told a crowd of more than 400 during a voting-rights rally at Columbia’s Drew Wellness Center.
“Is Voter Fraud Ever Acceptable?”
Shelby County Reporter.
DOJ to Supreme Court: Please don’t.
DOJ asks the Supreme Court not to take the Shelby case.
Pennsylvania makes voter ID available with one trip to PenDot
The Pennsylvania Departments of Transportation and State has
announced voters can choose to receive either secure PennDOT IDs, or
Department of State voting-only ID cards, when visiting a PennDOT driver
license center to obtain photo ID to vote under the state’s new voter
ID law.
The agencies also announced that, in order to get the DOS voter ID card, an individual need only give his name, date of birth, social security number, and address; however, proof of residence is not required. Link.
No amount of flexibility will ever satisfy the opponents of ID because the key is to avoid the confirmation of identity at the polls with any form of ID or require any exercise of energy or responsibility on the part of the voter. Why would I not be surprised to see the Pennsylvania judge require six months for Pennsylvania citizens to obtain an photo ID, despite all the publicity of the election and need for voter ID.