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Is Indiana election fraud contagious?



The Star Press:  In St. Joseph County, the prosecutor is investigating claims that hundreds of signatures were forged on petitions to qualify Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the state presidential primary ballot in 2008.


In Jennings County, a grand jury last month indicted three Democratic Party campaign workers on 66 counts ranging from voter fraud to perjury. The charges involve absentee ballots and applications submitted in the 2010 elections.


In Clarksville, Police Chief Dwight Ingle is facing accusations he voted absentee this year from an address that belongs to somebody else

Washington Secretary of State Reed says email voting in the future



At the link:

Washington’s secretary of state says it may not be long before you cast your ballot by e-mail.

Elected eleven years ago, Sam Reed pushed for the change to an all snail-mail ballot.


Reed says the obstacle to holding elections through the Internet is that right now no one can guarantee the privacy of a secret ballot.


However, Reed says Washington may be able to expand the bill he pushed through the legislature last year that allows military and others overseas to vote by e-mail

Military voters battle for representation at political party Caucus nominating candidates


At the link a growing movement that parties would be wise to get in front of.  To the story…

Idaho Republican Party leaders said they plan to address the concern of military men and women overseas and homebound residents not being able to vote during the March 6 GOP Caucus. 

In an e-mail to Norm Semanko this morning, Idaho GOP chairman, and Jonathan Parker, executive director, Rep. Frank Henderson, R-Post Falls, Rep. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, and Sen. Jim Hammond, R-Post Falls, urged the party to address the issue.


“Unless we are mistaken, the requirement for voters to be physically present at the caucus meeting in order to cast a vote takes the privilege of voting away from our military men and women,” the legislators wrote. “We recommend you direct the state Republican party to correct this deficiency by establishing a method of absentee voting for our citizens who are defending our freedoms, including the right to vote.


“Even though the caucus vote is non-binding, it may prove to be the process by which the Republican candidate is nominated and it thereby has a special importance to all citizens.”


In a response, Semanko said the party has heard the concern throughout the state. It will be on the agenda for the Rules Committee and the State Central Committee to consider during the party’s winter meeting in Boise on Jan. 7.

Making Voting a Condition of Citizenship?

The New York Times opinion piece: Americans to Vote, or Else. 

The Left gets all worked up over voter integrity measures, deriding them as undue conditions on the right to vote.  However, refusing to vote or exercising the right not to vote can be equally seen as an expression of speech (unhappiness) and the freedom not to speak as a citizen.  Even the most prolific voter has walked into a polling place, looked at the ballot, and found themselves simply unable to cast a vote for any of candidates presented.

Would such requirements to vote make voting an undue condition of citizenship?


 

Dem Campaign Chief predicts San Antonio Federal Court will draw interim lines to pick up five additional seats

@ the link. 

Democrats hope to pick up as many as five U.S. House seats in Texas by challenging two freshmen Republicans and gaining three new seats through legal challenges to a GOP redistricting plan.  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting Rep. Francisco Canseco, R-San Antonio, and Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi, freshmen lawmakers who knocked off incumbent Democrats in 2010.

The Republican freshmen “have enormous vulnerabilities,” said Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., the DCCC chairman. A Canseco spokeswoman said Democrats are reeling from the “terrible job they did in handling the economy.” Israel said federal challenges to the GOP redistricting plan could also yield three new Democratic leaning districts. Two federal courts are reviewing the GOP map.

Redistricting Role Reversal

The City Journal has this story on a petard hoist.  A portion:

“On an abnormally chilly morning this past summer, a group of black leaders gathered in front of the California African-American Museum in Los Angeles to oppose what they called an ‘effort to turn back the clock’ and ‘declare the premature death of black political power.’ The purported death sentence was issued one day before, with the release of prospective statewide redistricting maps, which consolidated African-American voters in Los Angeles County into one congressional district. Racial gerrymandering has been a common method of disenfranchising black Americans since the days of Reconstruction. But this time, the law that protesters were opposing was one identified with racial progress: the Voting Rights Act of 1965.


‘The Voting Rights Act is being used to disadvantage black people in Los Angeles,’explained Jackie Dupont-Walker, the influential leader of the Ward Economic Development Corp., in the Los Angeles Sentinel, one of L.A.’s leading African-American community newspapers. Dupont-Walker wasn’t alone in making the explosive claim. The City of Angels’ most prominent black leaders have taken a united stand against the landmark civil rights legislation. Representative Karen Bass, the first black woman in the United States to serve as speaker of a state legislature, added, ‘We should not accept the Voting Rights Act.’ An African-American member of the state’s redistricting commission lamented at a July hearing: ‘The Voting Rights Act is now . . . an instrument to be used against the African-American population.'”