NC Poll: Voter ID twice as popular as Health Care Act
Due to decreasing Democratic Party support for voter ID, the Elon Poll has support for voter ID at 65% but only 30% of North Carolinian’s believe the “Affordable Care Act” will make things better, a rock bottom number. President Obama has sunk to 37% approval. Link.
“Arapahoe County DA Charges Four in Voter-fraud Investigation”
More “non-existent” voter fraud, in Colorado: “The Arapahoe County District Attorney’s office filed voter-fraud charges Friday against two voters and two canvassers affiliated with Work for Progress, a liberal campaign-hiring group in Denver. “George Brauchler, District Attorney for the 18th Judicial District, said in a statement that charges were filed for violations occurring in Arapahoe County between 2008 and 2013… Brauchler said the investigation shows that while election misconduct in Colorado isn’t widespread, the system is ripe for fraud.” The DA said a “big problem for investigators was tracking down information about the potentially fraudulent voters on Homeland Security’s SAVE immigration database… ‘[I]t doesn’t mean that the federal government doesn’t have this information–they do. They just won’t give it to us or make it accessible to the Secretary of State for this use.’” Brauchler disagreed with vote-fraud denying detractors critical of the investigation: “We’re not talking about a traffic offense here. We’re talking about somebody’s right to participate in the democratic process.” But what do a few fraudulent votes matter, as long as it’s not “widespread”? “If these numbers seem inconsequential, just look to Broomfield’s fight over the anti-fracking ban, which has passed by 17 votes or failed by 13 votes, depending on the day.”
Almost 70% of Independents support voter ID law in North Carolina
A Elon University polls shows that Republicans (96%) are the most supportive of a voter id law, followed by Independents (68%), then Democrats (36%). Link
Voter fraud charge filed against Massachusetts resident for illegally voting in New Hampshire in 2012
More “non-existent” voter fraud. Via the Union Leader: New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph A. Foster announced the indictment of Lorin C. Schneider, Jr., a 20-year resident of Carver, Massachusetts, for “wrongful voting” in New Hampshire in the 2012 Presidential election, “in violation of RSA 659:34, I (e).” Giving false information to register and vote in a federal election is also a violation of federal law.
UPDATE: Texas Voter ID Trial Still Set for September 2014
“Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos rejected the State of Texas’ request to move the start of trial in the voter ID case from September 2, 2014 to March 2015. The September trial date leaves open the possibility that a ruling on the law could come in time to impact procedures in the November 2014 general election.”
Texas Voter ID Trial Date May Be Postponed Until After 2014 Election
“A federal judge in Corpus Christi today will consider whether the state’s Voter ID law should be considered by a court before the 2014 election, 1200 WOAI news reports. “U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzalez Ramos has set the trial date for next September,” but “State officials argue that a September 2014 vote would be too late for elections officials to deal with the outcome of the trial in an election that would happen just two months away.” Officials report that the first statewide implementation of Texas’ new photo ID requirement went smoothly, and turnout was up significantly compared to the 2011 election (8 percent vs. 5 percent of registered voters). Updates as they occur.
Yet “Democrats have repeatedly claimed that Voter I.D. laws ‘disenfranchise’ hundreds of thousands of Texas voters, mainly minority voters who would be more likely to vote Democrat. But they have been unable to produce individuals who have a logical claim of being unable to obtain one of the free Voter Identification Certificates being handed out by the Secretary of State’s office.”
Good News: Gail Heriot Re-Appointed to Civil Rights Commission
Some good news out of Washington: Gail Heriot is reappointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. United States Commission on Civil Rights:
Chair, on behalf of the President pro tempore and
upon the recommendation of the Republican Leader,
pursuant to Section 2(b) of Public Law 98–183, as
amended by Public Law 103–419, appointed Gail
Heriot, of California, to the United States Commission
on Civil Rights, for a term of six years.
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Will Failure to Clean Rolls Cost the GOP the Virginia AG Race?
Watchdog has the story:
“True the Vote, a national election-watch group, warned Chesterfield last month to scrub out ineligible voters, or be sued. The State Board of Elections had given the county a list of 2,200 names to review.
But Chesterfield General Registrar Lawrence Haake declined to purge any voters, saying it was too close to the election.
Haake also challenged the accuracy of the state list, saying 170 of the voters shouldn’t have been on it.
Chesterfield, a GOP stronghold, cast more than 103,000 votes in the attorney general’s race: 57,099 for Republican Mark Obenshain and 46,508 for Democrat Mark Herring. The 55-45 percent margin was notably smaller than Ken Cuccinelli’s 66-34 win in Chesterfield in the 2009 AG race.”
Chesterfield was shortstaffed and didn’t have time to do the job of removing ineligible voters? Perhaps fewer op-ed pieces in the Richmond Times and more focus on the job might help.
