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Good News: Gail Heriot Re-Appointed to Civil Rights Commission

Some good news out of Washington: Gail Heriot is reappointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.


United States Commission on Civil Rights: The


Chair, on behalf of the President pro tempore and


upon the recommendation of the Republican Leader,


pursuant to Section 2(b) of Public Law 98–183, as


amended by Public Law 103–419, appointed Gail


Heriot, of California, to the United States Commission


on Civil Rights, for a term of six years.


Page S8537


http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/getTodaysDigest.action;jsessionid=yyTWSPcLhvDxypL6p9jf415LgshR1pWTZkyQyrQxzhpTWgN11kk8!-601002639!718641867

Deceased Bishop of Brooklyn on voting rolls as active voter 22 years after his death



Is he the only one? Link:


 


Former Diocese of Brooklyn Bishop Francis Mugavero died in 1991, but according to the Board of Elections he remains an active voter — despite the Church’s efforts to get his registration cancelled…


 


Harrington said he found the failure to remove Mugavero from the rolls disturbing — especially since the state law only requires voters to reproduce a signature beneath the one in the register.


 


“When people who are deceased are on the voter rolls for over 20 years, it indicates there’s a problem,” Father Harrington said. “This is one of the fundamentals of our democracy, and it’s clearly not maintained.”


Virginia Election Far From Over

I spent yesterday working on the canvass in the Virginia election (something that those who write about election law ought to try sometime so as to get a real world experience of the process).

The process isn’t pretty.  For example, voters who completed provisional ballot forms shoved their ballots into the optical scanners to be counted as regular ballots improperly.  Other voters who were not registered to vote were nevertheless allowed to vote a regular ballot.  And that was information that merely came across my desk at the canvass, much less the hundreds of other desks and canvasses occurring across the Commonwealth of Virginia.

With the election for Attorney General showing a narrow lead for Republican Mark Obenshain, expect the Democrats to pounce and aggressively look for a way to snatch victory out of defeat.

Race Baiting Kook Art Slurs White Republicans

Don’t expect anyone that purports to be a reasonable liberal to condemn this absurd and technically simplistic painting by Michael D’Antuono.  It isn’t quite ape with a paintbrush, but it is close.  Its skilled enough to present a nasty paranoid narrative that various race baiters have inspired the gullible to adopt.  It’s just the sort of un-civil political “discourse” that someone lectured the country about not too long ago.