ding, ding, ding. Round 12. Voter ID proponents are not throwing in the towel.
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Tennessee election officials planning outreach in all counties on new voter ID law
AP reports how Tennessee continues to bend over backwards in not only providing photo identification to whomever may need one. State and local election officials are also educating the public on what is necessary to bring to the polls to verify identity at the polls.
Occupy Wisconsin Organizer Arrested for Voter Fraud
Austin Thompson, an organizer for Occupy Wisconsin, was arrested for voter fraud. His response? The arrest is “a distraction.” More here.
Mississippi Voter ID set for ballot
Wisconsin: Legislators may Raise Redistricting, Weapons Training in Final Week
You have to love this headline.
Closing arguments for Photo ID in Mississippi
Final arguments in the photo identification referendum to be held in Mississippi:
PRO: Dishonest should not be allowed to ‘steal’ elections
Voting fraud is no respecter or region or party. There have been voting problems in counties as diverse as Jefferson Davis, Holmes, Benton and Madison Counties. Some of these problems have happened in Republican primaries, some in Democrat primaries and some in the general election. Voting fraud is indeed a real and current problem that must be addressed once and for all by the voters of Mississippi.
Con: Disenfranchises the young, elderly, poor and minorities
The measure is a voter suppression tool. It is tantamount to the poll taxes and literacy tests imposed by a Jim Crow society to keep African-Americans from voting decades ago. The birth certificates and other documents required to obtain a government-issued ID cost money. Many Mississippians simply cannot afford to pay for them, especially in these tough economic times.
Erie County ballot tampering case goes national
The allegations of voter Fraud irregularities in Erie Couny, New York include ballot tampering, dirty tricks and outright election fraud problems. Putting aside political shenanigans, most concerning would be the potential inside-job nature of the marking of ballots.
“The national media paid attention today to the alleged ballot tampering in Erie County, and Republican County Executive Chris Collins took advantage of it in a Fox News appearance to harshly criticize his Democratic opponent, Mark C. Poloncarz. Poloncarz, in turn, blasted Collins.
The alleged tampering centers around at least 10 ballots mailed to absentee voters in Lackawanna who complained the ballots were already marked for Collins on either the Republican or Independence lines. The investigation is focused on a Democratic clerk at the Erie County Board of Elections, but county sheriff’s investigators have emphasized that they do not suspect the tampering was linked in any way to the campaigns of either Collins or Poloncarz.
“What we’ve seen in the last week leading up to the elections is a disturbing trend of dirty tricks and outright election fraud here in Buffalo and Erie County that involves my opponent and his supporters, a Democrat operative in the Erie County Board of Elections and also the executive director of the New York State Democratic Party,” Collins said in an interview on a brief Fox News segment known as “Voter Fraud Watch.”
NC: “No voter ID needed next week, but lets change for 2012″
Federal Court finds more “Slop” in DOJ
Blue Dog Democrats pull in money but face challenges with redistricting
@ Politico: the fact that the remaining Blue Dogs survived the 2010 elections suggests “that they’re a pretty capable group of candidates,” said Alan Abramowitz, a political science professor at Emory University. “Of course, with redistricting going on, it’s hard to know what’s going to happen to their districts.”
With redistricting not going well for Democrats in the South, this is a overly optimistic piece on the Blue Dog Caucus and their chances at survival in 2012. New lines and another tough cycle, this time with a unpopular President at the top of the ticket, may make the money raised irrelevant.