Ike Brown Removed from MS Democrat Committee

 Long Time Coming:


Brown removed from Democrats’ executive committee


The Associated Press


September 11, 2013 9:25:31 AM



JACKSON — Ike Brown of Noxubee County has been removed from his seat on the Mississippi Democratic Party Executive Committee.



Democratic Party chairman Ricky Cole said in a statement Tuesday that the committee this past weekend upheld a decision by its Appeals Council. Cole says the council had ruled in June that Brown did not receive sufficient votes at the 2012 3rd Congressional District Convention to be elected to the state executive committee.



Cole says Brown remains chairman of the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee.



Brown was convicted six years ago of discriminating against white voters in Noxubee County. He was barred by a federal judge from having a role in elections in Noxubee County.


That order expired last December.

North Carolina Republicans open the voting process to more election poll watchers

From the Washington Post, North Carolina Republicans reformed another antiquated election law that required observers to be residents of the precinct they were observing; not allowing the political parties to use additional volunteers from different areas of the county to engage in the important practice of observing the polls on election day.  Another reform by Republicans only after decades of nonsense restrictions that Democrats enacted to keep Republicans away from certain precincts.


There are going to be a lot more poll-watchers in North Carolina next election.
Under earlier laws, Election Day poll monitors had to be residents of
the precincts they were observing. Section 11.1 of the bill allows each
party to appoint an additional 10 poll watchers who live in the same
county as the precinct they’re observing. That will help Democrats send
new monitors from Charlotte into heavily Republican rural areas of
Mecklenburg County, say, or Republicans to send monitors from other
precincts around Raleigh, but still in Wake County, to heavily
Democratic black precincts downtown.

Colorado All-Mail Ballots: Helping the Dead to Vote

The mess in Colorado keeps getting messier: Voter ID card sent to deceased Pueblo man.

Colorado is set to become the voter fraud capital of the United States.  The move to all mail ballots with automatic send-out will create an environment more conducive to fraud than in any American election in decades, if not longer.  Of course this is a familiar pattern: make election law changes under the guide of “making it easier to vote” while at the same time making if extraordinarily easy to commit fraud.  It need not be organized fraud.  The new law in Colorado creates incentives for discrete small frauds to occur all over the state, uncoordinated, but numerous.  It is a fraud almost impossible to detect because of the lack of conspirators or structures to execute the fraud.  The automatic mailing to ever registered voter (including voters recently converted from inactive to active voters) is a large scale attack on the integrity of elections in Colorado.  Advocates for the new law are more interested in pumping millions of untracked ballots out into the public than they are the ramifications of their law.  It demonstrates the lengths the advocates for “making voting easier” will go regardless of the risks.  It should serve as a warning to other state legislators that even unreasonable proposals can become law when this crowd pushes.

Democrats Crushed in Election? Voter “Suppression” of Course

A crushing defeat for Democrats in Colorado leads to charges of voter suppression.  Actually, voter suppression is the story of politics.  One attempts to get one’s own voters to vote, while hoping that fewer of one’s opponents vote.  For example, in the 2012 election, OFA sought to discourage white middle class voters from participating in the election by exercising free speech rights with content designed to discourage participation.  That’s perfectly legal, and perfectly normal.

Perhaps when Democrats charge voter suppression after the crushing defeat in Colorado, they are referring to the same phenomena.

Keep in mind that the legislators defeated were not only adverse to the Second Amendment but also were key in passing Colorado’s universal vote by mail law.  The message from the election? Don’t interfere with the Bill of Rights and don’t support electoral systems which invite voter fraud on a massive scale.

“Colorado Democrats lose recall elections over gun-control votes”

The Washington Times reports on the rebuke of Colorado Democrats and New York Mayor Bloomberg in the recall of the Colorado Senate President and another state senator.  This is big news.

Colorado voters stunned the nation Tuesday night by ousting two
heavily funded Democratic state legislators in a recall election that
was cast as a national referendum on gun control.

Senate President
John Morse and state Sen. Angela Giron lost their seats in the state’s
first-ever Legislative recall election, despite the support of New York
City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, hundreds of ground troops from groups like
Organizing for America, and a 7-to-1 spending advantage.

“Voting problems plague NYC Primary Election”

As
New York City’s contentious primary campaign drew to a close Tuesday,
some voters – including one leading mayoral candidate – encountered
problems with the city’s decades-old voting machines.
Turnout appeared light, but the city’s complaint line received several
thousand voting-related calls. Many reported jams and breakdowns in the
antiquated lever machines, which were hauled out of retirement to
replace much-maligned electronic devices.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20130910_ap_7d337a2802c342e2b3a1e8ab156c9522.html#lUrHFItTi3ri8PWM.99
As
New York City’s contentious primary campaign drew to a close Tuesday,
some voters – including one leading mayoral candidate – encountered
problems with the city’s decades-old voting machines.
Turnout appeared light, but the city’s complaint line received several
thousand voting-related calls. Many reported jams and breakdowns in the
antiquated lever machines, which were hauled out of retirement to
replace much-maligned electronic devices.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20130910_ap_7d337a2802c342e2b3a1e8ab156c9522.html#lUrHFItTi3ri8PWM.99
As
New York City’s contentious primary campaign drew to a close Tuesday,
some voters – including one leading mayoral candidate – encountered
problems with the city’s decades-old voting machines.
Turnout appeared light, but the city’s complaint line received several
thousand voting-related calls. Many reported jams and breakdowns in the
antiquated lever machines, which were hauled out of retirement to
replace much-maligned electronic devices.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20130910_ap_7d337a2802c342e2b3a1e8ab156c9522.html#lUrHFItTi3ri8PWM.99

Link.

A disabled woman charged with illegal voting in 2012 election

The Sun-Times reports that a disabled former Antioch resident alleges that political harassment and
a bitter divorce are behind her recent arrest for alleged illegal
voting in the Nov. 6, 2012, presidential election.

This case has a number of complex issues and a million and one excuses for the illegal voting but the Prosecutor says “the facts will come out in court.”

Another deceased Pueblo County voter receives a “voter ID” card; County Clerk Bo Ortiz says he doesn’t know why


Ortiz insists there’s no evidence to indicate anyone has committed voter fraud… “I can’t imagine that anybody would think that it’s worth it.”


 


The Pueblo Chieftain reports:


 


But why was a deceased 91-year-old man mailed a card? Ortiz said his office compares names with the Department of Public Health and Environment, which tracks those who have died. Ortiz said he doesn’t know why the card was mailed to Knez.


 


Curtis said she worries that someone could have gone through her mail, which she says has happened before, and stolen her father’s ID card. “I think identification, ID, driver’s license, whatever you have should be shown along with that piece of paper. They’re just assuming that’s you. That’s not right,” Curtis said.


 


KRDO-TV also learned that a 79-year-old woman, Helen Lucero, from Pueblo was sent a yellow card, more than a year after she passed away.


 


What “evidence” of voter fraud does Ortiz think there would be if Mr. Knez or Ms. Lucero “voted,” or rather, if someone else fraudulently voted using their paper ID cards?  Certainly the fraud wouldn’t be detected at the polls, and with zero chance of being caught, one can “imagine” any number of fraudsters might “think it’s worth it.”  They wouldn’t be the first.