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Shameless: Meloweese Richardson Seeks Pay for Criminal Poll Worker Activities

This story reveals the depravity of the vote fraud deniers: Meloweese Richardson, the election official who abused her power to vote six times for President Obama, who appeared as a hero at an Al Sharpton rally, who enjoys the kindness of Eric Holder’s non-prosecution for federal election crimes now wants to be paid for her time working at the polls when she committed her crimes.

Richardson, a Democratic Hamilton County poll worker for almost 30 years, went to the Board of Elections office this week with her uncashed $150 payroll check from the November 2012 election. She wanted a new check re-issued because the first can’t be cashed.

Voter fraud allegations in Nassau County, NY’s Hempstead school board election



“The Nassau County district attorney is investigating the Hempstead school board vote following allegations of voter fraud and intimidation.


Attorney Frederick Brewington represents school board candidate Maribel Toure, who lost by six votes to longtime incumbent School Board President Betty Cross. Brewington claims many last-minute absentee ballots, some of which were handwritten, may have been illegal.”


 


News 12 Long Island has details and video here and here.


“Jim Crow Prowls Paradise”

“Imagine if a state didn’t let someone vote in an election because their grandfather wasn’t the correct race. Surely lawyers in Eric Holder’s Justice Department would be typing up a lawsuit as fast as fingers could fly across the keyboard. After all, this is the President who boasted he was a champion for voting rights, falsely we’d later learn.

Eric Holder compared voter ID to a modern version of Jim Crow. But a recent federal court opinion shows Jim Crow is alive and well, and living in paradise.

This week, the United States District Court in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) struck down a law that prevented American citizens from voting in a referendum on a constitutional amendment if they were not of “Northern Mariana descent.”

The plaintiff, John Davis, should have enjoyed the help of the United States Justice Department Voting Section.”

Full story at PJ Media.

“Midterm Election Turnout Isn’t So Different From Presidential Year Turnout”

FiveThirtyEightPolitics reports that all the convoluted explanations by Democrats that low turnout and different demographics in mid-terms is the cause of their current unfavorable position, do not hold up to scrutiny.

But turnout isn’t nearly as important as D.C. wags make it out to be. The demographics of who voted in 2012 vs. 2010 were different, but that difference didn’t make much of a difference. The reason Republicans won more votes in 2010 — and likely will in 2014 — is that voters wanted Republicans in office, not that minorities and young people didn’t turn out to vote.

Cross State Check Payoff: Guilty of Double Voting in Arizona

“Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett announced Tuesday that Carol Hannah of Bullhead City was convicted of a felony last week for voting in both Arizona and Colorado.

Hannah was accused of receiving a Colorado early ballot from Adams County by mail and returning it in October 2010. She subsequently cast a ballot at a polling place in Bullhead City.


Hannah faces between six months and 2.5 years in prison when she’s sentenced.


She was identified through a system that cross-checks voter registrations with other states.”

But why would someone risk jail by voting twice when they couldn’t swing an election?  Another example of human behavior to befuddle the purportedly enlightened. 

“No Need to ‘Fix’ the Voting Rights Act”

Roger Clegg @ National Review Corner.
The Washington Post today editorializes that Congress should pass the “sensible compromise” that has been proposed to “fix the Voting Rights Act.” This is the bad bill that was unveiled earlier this year, ostensibly to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision last year in Shelby County v. Holder, which declared unconstitutional the coverage provision of Section 5 of the Act.

But it is a good thing that this bill has gone nowhere. The Supreme Court’s decision was right, and there is no need in 2014 for Section 5 at all — that is, there is no need to treat any jurisdictions today like they are 1965 Mississippi. In any event, the rest of the Voting Rights Act is still available where there is actual discrimination, and the Obama administration and others are, for good or ill, aggressively using those provisions (they won a case in Wisconsin last week, and have brought lawsuits against, among others, Texas and North Carolina, too). What plaintiffs are unhappy about is that the burden of proof is on them to prove discrimination, but that’s the way every other civil-rights law works.

Arizona Maps Upheld

” A panel of federal judges on Tuesday refused to throw out Arizona’s new state legislative district maps, finding that the state’s redistricting commission did not violate the Constitution’s equal-protection clause when they put more voters in some districts.”  Link.  Republicans had complained the redistricting was partisan.  The usual foes of partisan gerrymandering are silent. Arizona is a great example of the opposition to partisan gerrymandering being loudest when the Democrat ox is gored.