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Free Speech: Americans For Prosperity in $30 million campaign against ObamaCare

Since August, Americans for Prosperity has put more than $27 million into ads against vulnerable Democratic lawmakers around the country for supporting Obamacare, the Washington Post reports. 

“These ads are really part of a wall-to-wall effort that Americans for Prosperity has led for five years in opposition to Obamacare,” Slade O’Brien, AFP’s Florida state director, said in a statement. “From writing Congress, to grassroots rallies and educational events, to radio and television campaigns, our members have stood in opposition to this law from every angle,” he continued.
More at NewsMax.

“Wall Street Journal on the Bad Voting Bill”

Via the Corner, Roger Clegg summarizes the Wall Street Journal editorial that is making an impact on the debate.

The Journal notes that “the liberal goal is to give national politicians more power to play racial politics in a few unfavored states”; that the new bill’s scheme to keep some states in federal receivership “fails to take into account broader racial progress in all of those states”; and that the bill’s use of an “effects” test raises constitutional problems and is “an open door to political abuse that is a specialty of this Administration.” All true, as is the editorial’s conclusion: that the Voting Right Act’s current provisions “provide ample federal enforcement when local politicians limit minority rights,” and so the preclearance mechanism does not need to be resurrected.

Texas Senator Cornyn calls for military voting reforms

Local Texas News reports: Cornyn testified before the Senate Rules Committee about what he has named the Sentri Act. He said that the goal of this new legislation is to end the disenfranchisement of military voters and their families by streamlining the voting process both here and overseas. He also said that the bill would ensure that errors or delays in ballot distribution could be corrected, and that they could be fixed in time for service members and civilians living overseas to vote.  “The 2012 election made clear that there are too many barriers to military service members and their families voting and having their votes actually counted, and that we need to do more,” Cornyn said.

Voter Fraud Charges in Wisconsin

“The Wisconsin State Journal reported Wednesday that Marcie Malszycki was charged Monday with two counts of election fraud and pleaded not guilty. She allegedly voted in Onalaska in 2008 and 2010, when her home address was in Madison.
   The 33-year-old Malszycki is an aide to state Rep. Warren Petryk, a Republican from Eleva in west-central Wisconsin.”

Link.

VP Biden launches partisan attack on Republicans over voter ID on eve of meeting with Presidential Commission on Elections

Vice President Joseph R. Biden criticized voter ID laws Monday, saying progress on civil rights and economic justice depend on minorities having unimpeded access to the ballot booth.
…On Tuesday, Mr. Biden and Mr. Obama will meet with the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, which Mr. Obama appointed in March to review issues such as long lines on Election Day in certain voting precincts.  Washington Times.

“One Vote Matters”



Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted provides more evidence that one vote really does matter:


 


“Based upon review of 110 recounts conducted following the 2013 General Election on November 5th, 35 local races and eight local issues were decided by one vote or through breaking a tie.”  


 


Just one person – or one fraudulent vote – could have made the difference in the outcome of 43 local elections.


 


“When a single vote can have such a big impact in so many places, you can understand why we focus so heavily on accuracy of the voter rolls and the integrity of the elections process, and why we encourage every voter to take their right and responsibility to vote seriously.”


“Other than These Two Big Cases in Texas and New York, Election Fraud Doesn’t Exist”

 Bryan Preston notes: “The Obama administration’s response to efforts to clean up our elections has been consistent: Fight those efforts to clean up our elections by whatever means are necessary. It sued Florida for cleaning up its voters rolls. It sued Texas for enacting voter ID to deal with the politiqueras and other fraud. Wherever there’s an effort to clean up elections, there’s an Eric Holder acolyte trying to stop it.”