Texas Next for Voter Roll Clean Up Lawsuits

ACRU Press Release:


ACRU Sends Motor Voter Act Violation Notices to Texas Counties



WASHINGTON D.C. (Sept. 18, 2013) — The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) notified numerous counties in Texas today that they are in apparent violation of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration (“Motor Voter”) Act because the counties have more registered voters than voting age-eligible residents, according to data from the U.S. Census and state voter registration offices.

Among the counties notified were Brooks County, which has more than 126% of living citizens old enough to vote registered to vote, Kenedy County which has 113%, and Duval County with 102%.  Just this past July, an election complaint filed in Brooks County regarding the May primary election for the local District Attorney alleges that 18 of the 325 super centenarians in the entire nation – individuals born over 110 years ago — voted in the primary, suggesting either the fountain of youth or voter fraud is present in the county. Duval County and next door Jim Wells County in Southeast Texas are where the infamous “Duke of Duval,” George Parr delivered the necessary fraudulent votes, AFTER election day, for then U.S. Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson to defeat former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson by 87 votes for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1948 – which is how LBJ earned the label “Landslide Lyndon” that he often used deprecatingly to refer to himself while in the Senate, as Vice-President, and even as President.    

It is indisputable that voter rolls that contain substantial numbers of ineligible voters can result in possible disenfranchisement of legally eligible voters via ballot dilution – which then subverts the integrity of the entire nation’s electoral process.

The ACRU just 3 weeks ago entered an historic election integrity consent decree in a suit filed under the Motor Voter Act against a county in Mississippi for also having more registered voters than voting-age-eligible residents – the same situation that exists in the Texas counties that were put on notice today. A trial is pending in a second federal case filed by the ACRU against another Mississippi county for also having more voters than residents eligible to vote.  

After the federal judge signed the consent decree in Mississippi, ACRU Chairman Susan A. Carleson said: “This is a huge victory for the American people. Across the country, other counties have more registered voters than people alive.   If they don’t clean up their rolls, they risk litigation. Every time an illegal voter casts a ballot, it steals someone else’s legal vote. The goal is to ensure the integrity of the voting process, without which we cannot continue as a self-governing nation.”

For more information, go to www.defendelectionintegrity.org.

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Ohio Secretary of State: 270 Cases of Voter ‘Fraud or Irregularity’ in 2012, ‘Zero Cases of Suppression’



“Jon Husted, Ohio’s secretary of state, appeared on Fox & Friends on Wednesday, where he defended his state’s efforts to ensure the integrity of the voting process. He discussed his efforts to combat voter fraud and revealed that an independent investigation into past elections in his state showed that there were no cases of voter suppression.”


 


To recap: Multiple proven cases of voter fraud that have resulted in convictions and guilty pleas.  Zero cases of voter suppression.


 


Story and video link.


Mississippi Secretary of State to observe in all Precincts for Hattiesburg Special Election



From the office of Delbert Hosemann:



All fourteen (14) precincts for the Hattiesburg Mayoral Special Election will have observers from the Secretary of State’s Office, Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann announced today.  The Agency has election staff in the Municipal Clerk’s Office between today and Election Day and will be present to observe the vote tabulation at City Hall after the polls close. 


 


“The reports from the previous election are troubling, to say the very least,” says Secretary Hosemann.  We are going to have an election conducted by the election commissioners, not a circus.  While we are not the election police, we will be watching in every precinct.  Any voting irregularities observed by our Staff will be immediately forwarded to the Attorney General and the local District Attorney.” 


 


“I want to thank Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann for his attention to the issues our community is facing related to the previous mayoral election and the upcoming special election,” says Forrest County District Attorney Patricia Burchell.  “The citizens of Hattiesburg deserve a fair and clean election on September 24th.  Secretary of State Hosemann’s presence in Hattiesburg and the presence of his designees at our polling places next Tuesday will help assure our community that the special election will be properly conducted.” 


“Voter ID protects all of us from tainted elections”

Letter to the Editor at GreenvilleOnline.com here.

To date, 46 states have prosecuted cases of voter fraud. Twenty-four
million voter registrations have been found to be invalid and 2.75
million Americans are registered in more than one state.

TrueTheVote,
a voter watchdog organization, found 99 cases of potential felony
cases, and Maryland affiliates of this organization found cases of
people voting after their deaths. Twelve Indiana counties have more
registered voters than residents. The same is true in multiple Ohio
counties.

Federal records show 160 counties in 19 states with over 100 percent voter registration.

Robert Popper Joins Judicial Watch Election Integrity Project

I’ll have much more on this soon, but former Department of Justice Deputy Chief of the Voting Section Robert Popper has left the DOJ and gone straight to the Election Integrity Project at Judicial Watch.  Judicial Watch has teamed with True the Vote to bring lawsuits (and interventions) around the nation to defend election integrity.  More are certainly forthcoming.

I worked with Bob on a number of cases while at the Voting Section.

Popper joined the Voting Section about 8 years ago.  He has a long history in election litigation and will bring a great deal to the effort to defend election integrity around the country.

“Machine” politics in NYC



“The special election for a Bronx Assembly seat — where just 72 votes separate the two top finishers — was mired with fraud that included the winning candidate’s mom working at a poll site where at least one machine wouldn’t even allow people to vote for the challengers, residents said.



“As a result, Hector Ramirez
, who lost narrowly to Victor Pichardo in Tuesday’s primary, is urging the governor’s Office and federal authorities to look into why there were no levers next to his name — and several other vanquished candidates — on several other machines at other locations when voters went to the polls…




“Pichardo, the former director of community affairs for state Sen. Gustavo Rivera, admitted Thursday that his mother was a poll worker — a violation of New York State law — but insisted everything was on the up and up.”   

New York Daily News reports.



“NYT Discovers Voter Fraud”




From Via Meadia:


 


“After years of claiming that it doesn’t exist, the New York Times has found evidence of voter fraud: a political machine organizing unqualified voters to swing an election in Alabama… 


“The truth that the MSM all too often finds it convenient to forget is that widespread voter fraud has been endemic throughout American history… Yet now, even as many us municipalities are run by corrupt and incompetent one party machines, we are solemnly told that vote fraud has disappeared. Except, of course, when those loathsome white males, the dirty dogs behind everything that is wrong with America, are involved.”


Maryland woman pleads guilty to impersonation voter fraud


Linda Earlette Wells pretended to be her mother, who had died



A 70-year-old Montgomery County woman has pleaded guilty to voting fraudulently in the 2012 presidential elections


 


Wells’ mother, Beatrice Moore Wells, had been registered in Montgomery County before she died in June 2011.  According to the statement of facts, Wells, impersonating her mother, called the Montgomery County Board of Elections and said that she wasn’t actually dead and wanted to vote.


 


How was fraudster Wells caught?  She confessed:


Wells called the Board of Elections and told them she took her mother’s ID to the polls and voted fraudulently.


 


Not that Maryland voters are required to present an ID, photo or otherwise.


Euclid OH Tinkers With Districts to Elect More Minoriities

I’ll have more on this DOJ action later.

The city of Euclid and Euclid School Board have faced lawsuits in recent years from the United States Department of Justice for unfair voting practices, citing that it was difficult for black residents to win seats on City Council and the School Board.
Today, the city and school board are still looking to have more equal civic participation among whites and blacks.
The proposed solution for city council, accepted by the U.S. Department of Justice, was to reorganize the wards and council seats, from four wards and four at-large to eight smaller wards and an at-large council president. Council members serve four years, with staggered terms ending every two years, determined by even- or odd-numbered wards.