“True the Vote Files Suit Against the IRS”



Says Cleta Mitchell, attorney for True the Vote:  “We are not going to allow the IRS to claim, as it has been doing in the past week, that the targeting of conservative groups is over and ‘everything has been fixed.’ It is not yet fixed and this litigation is a vital step both to resolve True the Vote’s status and to learn exactly what happened inside the IRS.”


“The goal here is to have a top-down election system that expands federal control”



“That system is going to be very partisan and very inefficient. The goal is to get as many people to vote Democratic as possible,” says former ACORN whistleblower turned election integrity activist Anita MonCrief:


MonCrief suspects the Obama White House is looking for a way to reactivate ACORN-type voter registration tactics, which might make it easier to commit fraud at the ballot box. That’s why the stories about long election lines are suddenly in circulation, she said.

Much more on the connection of the much-hyped but rare “long lines,” mandatory voter registration, and the push for increased federal control of elections here.

“Group fighting voter fraud among those waiting on IRS; reams of documents still not enough”



According to this Washington Times front page article, True the Vote is getting the extra special IRS treatment. 

A Texas group dedicated to combatting voter fraud applied for tax-exempt status in 2010 and has suffered three years of delays, been through four different IRS agents, undergone six FBI inquiries and submitted thousands of pages of documentation — and its still hasn’t been approved.


True the Vote is just one of the dozens of groups caught up in the IRS plan to give extra scrutiny to conservative groups in the 2010 and 2012 elections.

“Voter fraud is easy with 13,000 in Maryland still on D.C. records”



The District has failed to remove from its voting rolls as many as 13,000 former residents who years ago moved to Prince George’s County and cast ballots there, making fraud by voting in two jurisdictions as easy as going to the polls in their old neighborhoods, The Washington Times found in a review of records.



“It happens a lot,” said Ward 7 activist Geraldine Washington. “I know of people who still vote in their old address after they’ve moved [out of the District]. I mean years after.”

Three potential cases of voter fraud have been uncovered so far.  One voter acknowledged voting in both places; two others who no longer live in DC but remain on the voter rolls say someone else impersonated them and cast votes in their names – a crime made easier by the District’s lack of voter ID requirements.


The biggest risk of having nonresidents listed on the rolls is not the risk of people voting twice themselves, but of others appropriating their names by the hundreds.  They are easy targets for those who would cast votes in other people’s names in bulk, often by absentee ballot, after scanning the list for names of people who hadn’t voted in years and would therefore not show up to hear that their vote already had been cast.

Wall Street Journal Editorial Page: Reject Perez

The “Vote on Perez.”

“Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez made it through a Senate committee on an embarrassingly narrow 12-10 vote Thursday, with no Republican support. Democrats want to hold a Senate floor vote as soon as possible, and no wonder. The Justice Department’s civil-rights chief’s flexible interpretation of the law and disingenuous testimony echoes other abuses of power currently unfolding in Washington. . . .

Then there’s the not-so-small matter that Mr. Perez still hasn’t complied with an April 10 House subpoena of his personal Verizon email account, which he told House investigators he didn’t recall using for government business—a statement he later recanted. House investigators are still waiting to read the full text of more than 1,200 emails. Last week they learned of a second personal email account that Mr. Perez used for government business. . . .

Democrats seem determined to confirm Mr. Perez on a party-line vote, and generally we’d say that a President’s nominee shouldn’t be filibustered. But the problem with Mr. Perez isn’t merely a difference over policy. It’s abuse of power.”

“The Good News About Race and Voting”

Wall Street Journal has this story: “In the past three presidential elections, very few Americans reported having problems or difficulties voting according to Pew Research Center surveys. In its Nov. 8-12 poll in 2012, just 4% of whites answered yes to the question: “Did you have any problems or difficulties voting this year, or not.” Only 2% of African-Americans responded affirmatively.”

National Review on Harassment of Election Integrity Groups by Feds

As Cleta Mitchell notes, this is just the begining of the story.  National Review:

“Bryan adds: ‘It was kind of funny to us. I mean, we weren’t laughing that much, but we knew we were squeaky clean. Our CPA’s a good guy. And who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor: I got a little bit of a refund.’


Two months later, the IRS initiated the first round of questions for True the Vote. Catherine painstakingly answered them, knowing that nonprofit status would help with the organization’s credibility, donors, and grant applications. In October, the IRS requested additional information. And whenever Catherine followed up with IRS agents about the status of True the Vote’s application, “there was always a delay that our application was going to be up next, and it was just around the corner,” she say.



As this was occurring, the FBI continued to phone King Street Patriots. In May 2011, agents phoned wondering ‘how they were doing.’ The FBI made further inquiries in June, November, and December asking whether there was anything to report. . . .

Her husband offers an additional observation: ‘If you knew my wife, you’d know she doesn’t back down from anybody. They picked on the wrong person when they started picking on her.'”