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“Group says it found 30,000 dead North Carolinians registered to vote”
The News Observer reports that a Raleigh-based group devoted to reducing the potential for voter fraud presented the N.C. Board of Elections on Friday with a list of nearly 30,000 names of dead people statewide who are still registered to vote. The Voter Integrity Project compiled the list after obtaining death records from the state Department of Public Health from 2002 to March 31 and comparing them to the voter rolls. “Mainly, what we’re concerned about is the potential [for fraud],” said project director Jay DeLancy. “Since there is no voter ID law in North Carolina, anybody can walk in and claim to be anyone else.”
More Wall Street Journal Coverage on Numbers
Wall Street Journal. “Backers of voter-ID laws say the extent of fraud is beside the point. “We don’t pass laws against fraud to stop election results from changing,” said J. Christian Adams, an election lawyer in Alexandria, Va., and advocate for voter-ID laws who blogs about election law. “We pass laws against voter fraud because the system must be free from corruption.” He rejected the notion that corrupt election officials wouldn’t enforce the laws. “You don’t facilitate criminal activity in any other area of life by saying officials won’t enforce laws against fraud, murder, theft,” Adams added.”
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Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank who has written about voter fraud and backs voter-ID laws, said a voter ID “doesn’t just protect against impersonation fraud. It also deters voting under false voter registrations, including the use of phony names or false addresses. It also protects against voting by illegal aliens. It can also deter voting by those registered in more than one state.” He added, of impersonation fraud, “No one claims this is ‘widespread.’
“Fla. Sends Voter Cards To Women Who Haven’t Lived In State for Years”
Judicial Watch has the details: ” In comes the case of two South Carolina women—a mother and daughter—who continue receiving voter registration cards from the West Palm Beach, Florida Supervisor of Elections office long after leaving the state and registering to vote in another one. They moved to Greenville more than four years ago and have repeatedly notified Florida and West Palm Beach election officials. When they continued receiving voter cards and even absentee ballots they notified the Attorney General’s office and a special Florida voter fraud hotline. JW has obtained copies of the Florida voter registration cards sent to the mother’s Greenville address as recently as this month. To protect the women’s privacy, we can’t provide them but the forms are legitimate and the story is truly inconceivable. “This is voter fraud to the max,” one of the frustrated citizens told JW. “After I finally got an email confirmation from the (Florida) state division of elections that my name had finally been removed from their list, I checked my mail box and there they were; two cards. One in my name and one in my daughter’s name. It’s truly bizarre and annoying.”
Early Voting in Ohio Hasn’t Increased Turnout
A story in the Dayton Daily News you won’t find linked to everywhere. Here it is.
“Whether that is because such voter-ID fraud is truly rare, or because researchers haven’t been looking hard enough, remains a subject of debate”
Gore Seeks to Dismantle Electoral College
No surprise here, it’s in the Constitution. For a very good discussion as to why the Electoral College is an important means to preserve liberty and the federalist structure, read Fund and von Spakovsky’s Who’s Counting. Add the opposition of Al Gore to the list of reasons to keep the Constitution as-is.
“Democrats Attack Pollwatching”
Mark Sheldon at the RNLA blog: “Democrats have targeted virtually every law attempting to ensure the integrity of our elections. It should be no surprise then that they’re also targeting the very laws that create transparency in elections and give citizens the right to ensure that elections are fair. . . . If you’re a Republican and haven’t been accused of racism this week, you’re probably not doing your job. “
Going on Dana Show in STL and IND NOW
On Dana Show to talk about Holder’s successor, right now in St. Louis and Indy.
Another Record Traffic Month at Election Law Center
Thanks to everyone who has bookmarked Election Law Center or makes it a regular part of your day. August was another record month for traffic to the site. Traffic has more than tripled since the release of Injustice in October 2011. Alexa rankings continue to rise, and now has the site at #134,000 among all internet sites in the United States. That might not seem so high but consider another well known election law related site that has been around a lot longer is ranked #128,326. Between the content at Election Law Center and the links to PJ Media, the content you read here is some of the most read election law related content on the internet. That doesn’t happen without your clicks. Thanks.
And thanks also to Tabella and Lex, two folks who know more about elections and voter fraud than just about anyone. They keep the site alive when I am out and about traveling and speaking or otherwise unable to post updates. The spike in traffic here not only correlated with the release of my book but with the addition of these two experts as regular contributors.
The other reason I think traffic has increased so dramatically is that other sources of election related information have an extraordinary bias. One can take only so many links to TPM Muckraker or ThinkProgress before you start to wonder what isn’t being told. (Eg. this).
The landscape has dramatically changed from five years ago. Discussion and litigation about election law issues is no longer monopolized by one side of the political spectrum. And the soaring traffic numbers confirm there was an audience for a new source of information. Thanks.