Former councilman.  Charged.

Seems it was more than just Antonio Charles and Matt Pichler voting twice in 2008.  “Dozens.”

I’ll be on 100,000 watt KFTK-FM St. Louis on the Dana Loesch show Wednesday in the 3pm hour local.  Not only is Dana a fellow Pajamas Media contributor, but I think she is the future of talk radio.  Talking about DOJ, Section 8, Glenn Fine’s investigation of the voting section, maybe the Rams.

Washington Examiner has more.

So does the Washington Times.

And Fox.

And the AP, sort of.

This website mostly avoids discussions of campaign finance issues and instead focuses on the Voting Rights Act and various Federal laws regarding election mechanics.  But it is worth noting how one Congressional candidate is treating the McCain-Feingold forced disclosure.  This quirky television advertisement ends this way:

New York becomes the last state to comply with the Help America Vote Act of 2002.  But problems loom.

Article about Shelby County (AL) and DOJ’s defense of Section 5 is here.

“I have written extensively in many outlets including Pajamas Media about the outright lawlessness emanating from the Civil Rights Division under Eric Holder’s leadership at the Justice Department. Whether it involves rewriting military voter protections, refusing to sue defendants because of their race, or ignoring the Motor Voter requirements, the rule of law is endangered by this DOJ. The latest example may be the Division’s defense of a lawsuit filed by Shelby County, Alabama, challenging the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA).”

I wonder if the argument presented Friday will be a big topic of discussion at the blogs run by election professors.  Probably not.

Bell (CA), the town infested with voter fraud is the subject of a federal investigation – whether illegal towing of cars took place.  More at the AP.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the voter fraud in Bell took on many different forms – including the casting of ballots for dead voters.  Of course this also implicates federal jurisdiction.  If dead people are on the rolls and casting ballots, a variety of federal statutes may be implicated, including Section 8 of NVRA.  Maybe they’ll get to those issues after they complete the towing investigation. 

This sounds like Tarrell Campbell’s effort to fully participate in the Presidential election in 2008.  More.

“Two men have been charged with voter fraud in Western Wisconsin.  Investigators believe they voted twice in the 2008 presidential election.

Antonio Charles and Matt Pichler both from Menomonie, have been charged with election fraud.  They allegedly voted in Minnesota and then in Wisconsin.  Charles was a UW-Stout student at the time.  Election fraud is a felony.”

Here is a request for election observers for the Bronx sent to the DOJ.  The letter cites the:

“imminent danger of voter disenfranchisement, fraud and intimidation.”

The letter states that some of the elections will be conducted by paper ballot in the Bronx because they can’t get all of the optical scanning machines to work.

“the change in technology impacts less informed voters who can be easily manipulated by poll workers.”

“The incumbent has a long history of suppressing voter turnout [Senator Reverend Ruben Diaz Sr.] and distributing fraudulent propaganda, manipulating elections and being investigated by the F.B.I.”

Note the call to have the federal government monitor the election because of the use of “fraudulent propaganda.”  This letter was written by a candidate for the 32nd Senatorial District.  The letter goes on to ask the Justice Department to “take control” of the ballots after the election. 

We will know shortly whether the DOJ finds these arguments persuasive enough to deploy observers on September 14.