“It’s not entirely the board’s fault. The district’s mapmaker, attorney Chad Dunn, told the board Tuesday that Latinos are spread across the city. One activist agreed, saying the best Latinos could do would be 32 percent of a district.

That’s why some community members who spoke at the meeting Tuesday would like to see the five districts and two at-large system enacted. They say they have their best chance at representation by winning an at-large seat.”  Link to Watchdog.

It’s also not the DOJ’s fault.  If the Hispanics are not geographically compact, then there are problems with arguing they are entitled to a single member district. 

“Cleta Mitchell, one of Washington’s most respected elections attorneys, told Newsmax she has tangible proof that high-ranking IRS officials in Washington were fully aware of the agency’s campaign to target conservative groups for heightened scrutiny, despite their denials.”  Link.

Let’s think about this… who at the White House was obsessed about regulating free speech?  Who at the White House already wrote memos attacking the free speech rights of True the Vote and other election integrity groups?  Who at the White House had the pull to get the IRS to behave this way by simply making one phone call?

Anyone who follows these issues closely knows there is one person who was at the White House when this outrageous plan was hatched.  Will the IRS intrusion scandal be the last downfall of the speech regulators?

Some of the usual opponents of free speech rights, including Common Cause, are making excuses for the bad (and likely criminal) behavior at the IRS.  George Will has a response:

“An emerging liberal narrative is that this tempest is all the Supreme Court’s fault: The Citizens United decision — that corporations, particularly nonprofit advocacy groups, have First Amendment rights — so burdened the IRS with making determinations about who deserves tax-exempt status that some political innocents in Cincinnati inexplicably decided to begin by rummaging through the affairs of conservatives. Ere long, presumably, they would have gotten around to groups with ‘progressive’ in their titles.

Remember, all campaign ‘reform’ proposals regulate political speech. And all involve the IRS in allocating speech rights.

 PJ Media:

“Perez has also threatened election officials in Alabama, threatening to ‘bury’ the state ‘with paper’ if Alabama did not give in. This is typical of the would-be Labor secretary. Under oath before Congress, he is all smiles, sunshine, and bluebirds; behind closed doors he is a thuggish progressive bureaucrat comfortable wielding power despite what the law says.

This is one reason Perez has resorted to using his Verizon email account at his Takoma Park, Maryland, home to conduct Justice Department business. It insulates his behavior from the Freedom of Information Act. But even the Justice Department admits that Perez violated federal records laws in excess of 1,200 times by using his home email to conduct DOJ work. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has subpoenaed his emails, but so far Perez has refused to turn them over.”

Richland County, South Carolina (Columbia) is interviewing a candidate named Howard Jackson for election’s director.  The State:

“Jackson was the focus of a SLED investigation shortly after being appointed elections director in 2008 in a probe over the distribution and collection of absentee ballots. The case was closed after no evidence of criminal wrongdoing was discovered.”

“Goins made a few changes to his draft of the report but still found ‘an unacceptable pattern of serious errors’ throughout the 2012 election cycle, which ‘led to an erosion of confidence’ in Davidson County’s election operations. The review found problems with legal notices, sample ballots, voting technology, staffing at polling places and other practices.”

Full story on Davidson County, TN.

 New York Daily News.

“The complaint alleges that O’Farrell campaign workers filled out voters’ ballots for their candidate while telling them they were voting for Sam Kbushyan, a candidate of Armenian descent who ran and lost during the primary election.

Kbushyan and many of his former campaign volunteers are now working on behalf of O’Farrell.”


Read more: Utah Policy – Voter Fraud Allegations Flying in Los Angeles City Council Race

Brought by private plaintiffs, not by the Justice Department (which is now past four years without a Section 2 case.)  The defendant is Grand Prairie ISD in Texas.

“In August 2010, Missouri House candidate John Joseph Rizzo defeated his Democratic primary opponent, Will Royster, by a single vote.  On Monday, Rizzo’s uncle John Moretina told a federal judge he lied about his home address that July so he could cast a ballot in Rizzo’s district.”

Story.