“the Consulate’s mobile office coming to Wisconsin, will provide passport renewal services for potential voters, mainly the Latino population. The increasing need has led to Walker’s proposed permanent consulate to replace the monthly mobile consulate visit.”
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Another Republican drawn map found unconstitutional. This time, it’s packing.
Five Voter Fraud Myths and Truths
PJ Media has put together this publication about voter fraud called Crimes Against the Republic.
When it comes to voter fraud, there are several myths and several truths of note – enough to leave everyone unhappy. Here are five:
1. Myth: President Obama won reelection because of voter fraud. Nonsense. The margins in key swing states such as Ohio and Virginia were too vast to be driven by voter fraud. No voter fraud scheme can move tens of thousands of votes. That’s impossible and would be detected. The machinery of elections simply doesn’t allow for the possibility of organizing and procuring tens of thousands of votes. If you are desperate for a singular explanation for Obama’s reelection, you should get to know Catalist. This massive database and how the modern left uses it to drive turnout among the base is behind Obama’s releection, not voter fraud. That Republicans and conservatives have absolutely no effective counterpart makes it even more so.
2. Fact: Voter fraud has altered the outcome of elections. Senator Al Franken (D-Lino Lakes), the Saturday Night Live clown, is in the United States Senate because of voter fraud. Franken won his election because Minnesota has same day voter registration, where a person can register to vote and cast a ballot simultaneously. Felons were ineligible to vote but did so anyhow – by the thousands – 1099 of them to be exact. This means that Franken owes his Senate seats to graduates of Faribault and Lino Lakes. Remember, Franken won by only 312 votes. News media in Minnesota contacted many of the felons and they admitted they were proud of their vote for Franken. Not a one voted for Norm Coleman. But it’s worse. Al Franken was the 60th vote to pass Obamacare over a fillibuster. Because of voter fraud, Obamacare passed.
3. Myth: Paper ballots are the safest. Paper ballots actually facilitate voter fraud. Electronic voting machines cannot be hacked from outer space. The machines are not connected and manipulated by the Illuminati. The worst form of elections are paper ballots because they are subject to human interpretation. When paper ballots are counted, partisans on each side get to interpret stray marks the way the want to. X’s stray from boxes, and magically votes move. Electronic machine counting is the best way to eliminate voter fraud. The single best election system is the optical scan ballot where you make selections inside ovals and the paper is fed through an electronic counting scanner. People who waste time on electronic voting machines are overlooking the many other ways the system is manipulated.
4. Fact: Eric Holder’s Justice Department is Facilitating Voter Fraud. It isn’t hard to find the ways Eric Holder’s radical version of law enforcement is facilitating voter fraud. That’s the central story of Crimes Against the Republic. For starters, multiple individuals have been caught voting more than once in a federal election. This is a federal felony. The response from the Justice Department? Crickets. Take Wendy Rosen. She was a Democrat running for Congress. We have reached the Alice in Wonderland moment where a Democrat can pen an editorial admitting she violated federal election law and no federal charges ensue.
Her excuse for committing a federal felony? Because election integrity laws make it hard for the poor and blacks to vote. She actually says this. Maybe Eric Holder isn’t prosecuting Wendy Rosen because 1) Rosen is a Democrat and 2) She is mimicking Holder’s own talking points. Such are the lawless ways of the Obama age – felons get a pass as long as they are allies of the President, sort of like the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia. This is the stuff that makes Americans furious, and the Democrats best beware of the whirlwind they may reap. Many more examples of Holder facilitating voter fraud are in Crimes Against the Republic.
5. Myth: Just Electing Republicans Will End Voter Fraud. Voter fraud is a non-partisan issue. Both Republicans and Democrats have been found guilty, though Democrats seem to outnumber Republicans by significant amounts. Voter fraud is particularly common in Democrat primaries where Democrats use it against other Democrats. That’s why the Democrat run Rhode Island legislature passed a voter ID law. Moreover, Republicans sometimes lack a spine to address the institutional and structural issues which open the door to voter fraud. No excuse absentee voting, one of the most fertile areas of voter fraud, is one example. In other places, like Colorado, some Republicans are actually collaborators with the beneficiaries of fraud. Colorado election clerks Pam Anderson and Shelia Reiner were but two.
Article printed from Rule of Law.
Some thoughts about the 7th Circuit opinion on Section 2 in the Wisconsin Voter ID case:
1. This is bad news for the plaintiffs in North Carolina and in places to be determined. Two circuits have rejected the statistical model of Section 2 liability.
2. The opinion explains the desperation of the Justice Department to enjoin North Carolina voter ID before the election produces evidence unhelpful to the cause. If minorities turn out at rates greater than before the termination of early voting and same day registration, then it will undermine the theory of the attack on these election integrity measures.
3. The court introduced the idea that the estimates of people lacking ID is “fanciful,” something some of us have been saying for years.
4. The court lays flat the theory of voter ID opponents: “People who do not plan to vote do not plan to go out of their way to get photo ID.” It is a matter of choice. This concept leaves no room for voter ID challenges.
5. The court made a mockery of the expert opinion of political scientists in the case, even if there “were 20 of them” saying something contrary to Crawford.
6. The court squarely rejects disparate impacts as a basis for Section 2 liability.
7. The court squarely rejects the economic deprivation basis for Section 2 liability.
Things are not going well for the folks who constructed a new paradigm of Section 2 to attack election integrity laws. It looks like their plans are playing out, and not playing out well for them.
Washington Examiner: The Right-Left stalemate can be broken. Former Presidents Clinton and Carter, at a voting summit in Texas in April, endorsed the idea of adding a picture ID to Social Security cards. Carter said he would “support the idea in a New York minute.” Clinton said, “The idea behind this agreement is to find a way forward that eliminates error and makes the best possible decision that we can all live with.”
National Review: “If North Carolina submits an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, it is possible that the state could be successful in convincing the Court to dissolve the Fourth Circuit’s injunction given the Court’s order in the Ohio case, which stayed the injunction issued against Ohio’s elimination of same-day registration.
The bottom line is that when 39 states do not allow same-day registration, and 17 states do not have any early voting period at all, it is a real stretch to claim that not allowing these measures is somehow unconstitutional or discriminatory. All of the groups bringing these lawsuits are trying to use the courts to change election rules, as opposed to doing it through the legislative process.”
Interview at World:
. . . Let me ask a non-political question. Do you find all this amassing of data by political parties to be a bit creepy? I think many Americans would just as soon not be in anyone’s database.
Well, then those Americans need to find a time machine, because this is inevitable. What I find to be more creepy, and, frankly, a lot of your listeners will understand the dynamics of this—we are increasing and speeding up the process of making stark divisions between worldviews in America. … Catalist is … this internet tool, this technological tool that pushes people apart into divided camps. These groups have developed a tool to totally isolate themselves politically and aggressively from people on the other side of the aisle. I think that’s the more frightening phenomenon. We’re entering an age where the contrast between one half and the other is growing so stark and unbridgeable. This is a tool that divides America. It is not a tool that creates any sort of unity.. . .
Breitbart: “Opponents of election integrity legislation seek to use this pioneering theory of federal law to block a wide range of other election law changes by claiming they impact blacks disproportionately. Because of high racial polarization in voting among minority communities, such a theory would invariably help Democrats win elections.”
I went on with Lou Dobbs and talked about Holder’s legacy of division, election coverage at the Voting Section and doing the work of private groups on taxpayer time.