As I noted earlier at Pajamas Media, Quanell X, the head of the Houston New Black Panther Party, was entering polling places illegally in Houston in violation of Texas law.  He had with him a squad of at least 5 other Panthers.  Texas law strictly prohibits unqualified individuals from being present.  Credentials are necessary to be inside the polls if you are not voting.

After the New Black Panthers would appear, the Presiding Judge made a number of decisions resulting in the removal of either poll watches or Alternate Judges.  Later, on a Houston radio station, Quanell X bragged that he had people removed from the polls. 

Data is being gathered about this behavior.  But Texas GOP Vote has this updated report.   Here is the Pajamas Media story  with video from one of the individuals removed describing what happened.

Latest at Pajama’s Media: Houston Texas New Black Panther groups enter polling places illegally and give instructions to election officials.  Poll watchers questioning the behavior are ejected or denied readmittance.  Full story and video here.

Story  – group wears “Please ID buttons” to polls.  This button seeks to undermine the argument that being asked for identification is a painful experience.   It ends up in a court fight that results in the buttons being banned.  After that, the button proponents hint they will disobey a court order and wear them anyway.

My take: this is a bad idea in a nation governed by law, something I suspect the button wearer’s support.  Refusing to obey a court order would tear at the fabric of law that we all rely on to ensure the rule of law protects us all.  Consider whether we would want King Samir Shabazz to ignore the court order prohibiting him from showing up with a nightstick inside the city of Philadelphia.  Such behavior encourages more lawlessness.  So lets hope that the response is to appeal the ruling rather than violate the ruling.

 Drudge is reporting. Fox 29 has more.  This is Jerry Jackson.  He was not enjoined in the case. 

Assisted living allegations.  An affidavit saying mentally ill patients were voted illegally.

More at WISC-TV.  Voting twice.

Fox has more here.   More here.   Here is the FBI contact page to report voter fraud.

I was on the Rob Schilling show at WINA-AM  in Charlottesville yesterday.  The podcast is here.  It’s at the bottom of the hour though I can’t seem to find a scroll forward.  The discussion ends up being about Nancy Rodriguez at the bottom of the hour.  In particular, about Rodriguez altering the rules regarding residency in 2008 to open the flood gates for out of state college student voting.  It also covers how Nancy Rodriguez continued to aggressively defend a case brought on behalf of military voters.  The aggressive defense worked to the detriment of military voters.  She didn’t need to fight back so aggressively, but she did.  This lawsuit came after Virginia failed to mail military ballots in time to soldiers overseas.  After they were sued, Nancy fought back and defended the failure to mail ballots.   Nancy Rodriguez refused to settle the case on terms favorable to military voters and fought back in court well after the election. 

Out of state college students? No problem.  A Marine in Iraq?  Not so much.   The good news is that Rodrigues will be replaced in January 2011.  It is a shame she wasn’t replaced in January 2010.