FL SOS: Five “election supervisors ‘very, very, very close’ to warrant suspension”

Five Florida Supervisors of Elections are on the list for possible suspension by the Governor.

“Out of the five struggling supervisors he visited after the election — including Gertrude Walker in St. Lucie County — Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner said some performed poorly enough to be “very, very, very close” to warranting suspension by the governor.

While addressing the Senate Committee on Ethics and Elections on Tuesday, Detzner did not name which underperforming officials he had in mind. He also visited Miami-Dade, Lee, Broward and Palm Beach elections offices.”

“Radicalism Inside the DOJ”

 Breitbart: “. . . The DOJ also partnered with the ACORN-connected Project Vote in advance of the 2012 election on a national campaign to use the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA) to register more individuals on public assistance.


And now, Judicial Watch has uncovered two dozen pages of emails from the DOJ Civil Rights and Tax divisions revealing questionable behavior by agency personnel while negotiating for Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) co-founder Morris Dees to appear as the featured speaker.

The Judicial Watch FOIA request was prompted by an apparently politically motivated shooting at the Family Research Council (FRC) headquarters in August, 2012. At the time of the shooting, FRC President Tony Perkins accused the SPLC of sparking the shooting, saying the shooter “was given a license to shoot… by organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center that have been reckless in labeling organizations as hate groups because they disagree with them on public policy.”



Indeed, on its website, the SPLC has depicted FRC as a “hate group, along with such mainstream conservative organizations as the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, and Coral Ridge Ministries. . . . ”

Update: Virginia LtGov Bill Bolling clarifies support for photo ID, just delayed enactment until 2014

The Virginia Lieutenant Governor explains his vote with the Democrats and renewed support for voter photo ID.

“I would note that an additional bill, SB1256, will be considered by the
Senate tomorrow. SB1256 goes a step farther than SB719 and would
require photo ID at the polls. Interestingly, SB1256 already includes a
delayed effective date until July 1, 2014. I will support passage of
SB1256 if it comes before the Senate and results in a tie vote. I have
always supported photo ID because I believe it will help improve
integrity in the elections process.”

Long lines data showing only “14 minute wait” doesn’t support zany Democrat policies

The New York Times “Waiting Times at Ballot Boxes draw scrutiny” lays out much of the agenda of the Left (pre-registration and early voting) based on the perception of long lines.  Perception because the reality doesn’t support the argument.  It takes most of the article until the author gets to the actual data to support the Democrats new assertion.  The average “long lines” had become the new justification for the zany ideas of federal automatic or universal registration of all Americans instead of actual improvements to the voting process.  If the negative polling hasn’t already, this data should deflate that argument.


The average wait nationwide was 14 minutes last year, according to Mr. Stewart’s data. Blacks and Hispanics waited an average of 20.2 minutes, compared with 12.7 minutes for whites. In the most populous areas — those with more than 500,000 voters in a county — the average wait was 18 minutes, more than double what it was in counties with fewer than 50,000 voters.

…Florida had the nation’s longest lines, at 45 minutes, followed by the District of Columbia, Maryland, South Carolina and Virginia, according to Charles Stewart III, the political science professor who conducted the analysis.

A bit of perspective, tens of millions of Americans waited twice as long for the Super Bowl blackout to end and the game to resume.  A whole 35 minutes. 

“True the Vote sues for inspection of West-Murphy election records”

Human Events:  True the Vote, a group dedicated to protecting ballot integrity and ensuring fair
election contests, has filed suit against the St. Lucie County
Supervisor of Elections in Florida.  The suit demands the release of
“all records pertaining to the recent 18th Congressional District
election and subsequent recounts between Rep. Allen West and Patrick
Murphy be reviewed in order to perform a comprehensive third-party
audit.”

“The ploy of voter Preregistration”

An opinion piece on pre-registering 15 year old citizens because 18 year old citizens aren’t registering in large enough numbers.  It’s not enough that California makes it easy for citizens to register.
The state needs to preregister 15-year-olds in case they don’t register
when they’re old enough to vote. Then the state needs to remind
18-year-olds to make sure they’re registered to vote and to vote,
because they’re old enough to vote — but not to remember.