New York to Bring Back Old Lever Machines??

“The New York City Board of Elections isn’t ruling out bringing back the old lever voting machines (PDF) if the dates for the upcoming primary and runoff elections remain unchanged. It’s just one of several options to account for a snafu with the new electronic voting machines.”

WNYC

Where is DOJ on this trial balloon?  After all, HAVA required New York to eliminate the level machines, albeit it took them years to do so, aided by a Justice Department in no hurry to require full compliance with the law.

Wisconsin GAB: Compliance with NVRA would cost $14 million

The Wisconsin Government Accounting Board says requiring advance voter registration would cost $14,000,000, largely because of the requirement to comply with NVRA and offer voter registration services at social service agencies.

Meanwhile, Wisconsin pays out tens of millions of dollars a year in fraudulent unemployment insurance. “Fraud was estimated at $37.5 million in 2010 with an additional $41.4 million in overpayment errors in the same year.”

“Long Lines, Tall Tales and Federalized Elections”


PJ Media Rule of Law.

“Brown-Dianis’ saga is a batch of moonshine. She could have voted on election day at the Faith United Methodist Church, and saved herself at least six hours. The “long lines commission” must ask why voters who subjected themselves to seven hour waits didn’t vote on election day, or didn’t vote absentee. . . .


Here’s the other dirty secret – many of the longest lines occurred in Democrat-controlled urban areas. The fiercest opponents of long waits should direct their fire at local election officials in their own backyard, not at Washington D.C.


The federal government is forever searching for more ways to snatch power from the states. That’s the nature of the beast. No Republicans should acquiesce to another federal power grab over state elections.


Dispersing power over elections means that no one entity, or person, can easily manipulate the process. The Founders knew that decentralized control over the process helps preserve individual liberty. Of course, this explains a great deal about why President Obama and leftist academics are such fans of increasing federal intrusion into elections.”

After Lively Debate, “Missouri House passes Voter ID measures”

A number of statements in a lively debate:

“This is a pretty common-sense proposal,” said House Speaker Tim Jones, R-Eureka. “It protects the integrity of the voting process.”

“I think it is too easy for someone to pick up someone’s utility bill or even someone’s voter ID card and go to the polls and use that to cast a ballot,” said Rep. Tony Duggar, R-Hartville.

“Jim Crow is alive in this room today,” said Rep. Chris Kelly, a Democrat from Columbia who served in the Legislature in the 1980s and ’90s before returning in 2009. “This is the single most immoral act that I’ve ever seen happen in my time in the General Assembly.”

Rep. Stanley Cox, R-Sedalia, said the effort is intended to protect the right to vote — not harm it. He referred to the legislation as a “firewall.”  “There are people out there who see elections as a game,” he said. “Right now there’s no requirement to prove who you are.” Cox said it wouldn’t be hard to create fake documents and use them to vote under the current system, which allows a voter to show a utility bill as a form of identification.  “I could create 10,000 utility bills that would look pretty good, if so inclined,” he said.


Rep. Rory Ellinger, D-University City, said the state shouldn’t be creating more bureaucratic hurdles for people who want to vote.  “The end result is innocent people will be hurt,” he said.


Campaign Fundraising Questions Dog Hillsborough County, Florida’s Democrat Elections Supervisor



Craig Latimer denied asking co-workers for campaign donations last year when he was running to be Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections while serving as that office’s chief of staff.  


 


“I’ve certainly never solicited any contributions from any employees in here,” Latimer said then.


 


But the Tampa Bay Times has documents from Latimer’s campaign that say otherwise:


 


In one, Latimer’s campaign coordinator — also a manager in the office — encourages a half dozen campaign volunteers from the agency’s top staff to donate the $500 maximum contribution. Latimer followed up that memo with an email encouraging the same employees to hit up 10 friends for campaign money.


 


“To date no one has supplied any names and addresses,” Latimer, a Democrat, writes in the October 2011 email, the sentence underlined, the letters in bold. “It is important that we raise money to get our message out … You are not going to offend your friends, just encourage them to donate to your future.”