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Texas: “Questionable” voters registered at P.O. box store



Inaccurate voter rolls in Texas:


 


Early voting starts Monday for May 10 local elections in Texas, historically low-turnout affairs – which makes the “questionable” voters on Hidalgo’s voter rolls problematic.


 


Judging by Hidalgo County Elections Department records, 36 registered voters live at 501 N. Bridge St.  It’s not an apartment complex, though — the address belongs to the American Postal Center…


 


While the 36 people rent Hidalgo addresses from the American Postal Center, where they actually live remains a mystery. Regardless, they remain registered for the upcoming City Council election, representing a half-percent of Hidalgo’s nearly 6,200 registered voters…


 


Problems with registered voters at the American Postal Center aren’t anything new, said Elections Administrator Yvonne Ramon, and similar situations exist throughout Hidalgo County.  On May 20, 2013, the Elections Department referred information about registered voters at the American Postal Center to the Hidalgo County District Attorney’s Office. Nothing happened…


 


District Attorney Rene Guerra said he wasn’t familiar with the American Postal Center situation and would have to review the Texas Election Code.  “Now, if it’s illegal, we’ll jump all over it,” Guerra said.


Four Alabama counties have more active, registered voters than adult population


Greene, Hale, Lowndes, and Macon 


 


AL.com reports:


Less than three months before the June primary, four Alabama counties had more voters on their rolls than what the Census Bureau says is their voting age population.  Officials give a number of reasons for that, including under-counting by the census.



 


Secretary of State Jim Bennett said the discrepancies create opportunity for voting fraud.  “Every duplicate name and every bad address is just an opportunity for crooks to attempt to manipulate our elections,” Bennett said…


 


Bennett is a longtime advocate of cleaning up the voter rolls… “Purging voter rolls is a painstaking process that takes time and money and a great deal of care,” Bennett said in an email. “But the end result is worth it in the pursuit of elections that voters can trust.”


 


Bennett said he believes Alabama’s new photo ID requirement for voting, which takes effect with the June 3 primary, will reduce the likelihood of someone fraudulently voting under another name.


 


“IRS coordinated Tea Party targeting with Justice Department, FEC and liberal political activists”

Tapscott at the Examiner:


“Lerner’s mention of Americans for Campaign Reform is doubly interesting because it suggests the IRS scandal was a three-cornered effort by the Obama administration effort to suppress its Tea Party and conservative critics.


Americans for Campaign Reform is a 501(c)(3) education foundation. Note that IRS rules governing c3s bar partisan political activity far more rigorously than those covering c4s.


The group has received at least 41 contributions totaling $1.7 million in recent years from such groups as the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The New York Community Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.”

Coming Soon: Blistering New Book on DOJ and Voting Section

On June 10, a blistering new book on the Justice Department and the shenanigans inside the DOJ Voting Section is released.  “Obama’s Enforcer” by John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky will detail abuses of power at Holder’s Justice Department.  It has disturbing stories from inside the Department about Justice Department staff both giving a pass to criminal election activity as well as naming the names of those inside the Civil Rights Division who engaged in criminal activity.  Amazon link here.