PA Voter ID Trial July 15

Here is the scheduling order.  Apparently lawyers at Arnold and Porter have time on their hands and the ACLU has money to waste.  This will likely not turn out favorably for the plaintiffs.  From the Arnold and Porter website:

In addition to David Gersch, the Arnold & Porter LLP legal team included Michael Rubin, Dorian Hurley, Rosie Smith, Dana Peterson, Stanton Jones, Whitney Moore, Joseph Schlingbaum, Dan Bernstein, Rachel Frankel, Dawn Yamane Hewett, Bassel Korkor, Marissa Styne, Susan Rabinowitz, Christine Lao, Cathy Hoffman, John Freedman, Donna Patterson, Mark Colley and Kelby Ballena.

Indiana absentee ballot fraudster is “someone we will always respect in the Democratic Party”



Michael R. Marshall, a “longtime Jennings County Democratic Party worker” indicted on 48 charges related to illegal absentee ballot handling during the 2010 election, will plead guilty to three counts of vote fraud, Class D felonies that could earn Marshall prison time.


 


None of which deters Jennings County Democratic Party Chair Karen Snyder, who says, “Without question, we will welcome Mike back to work for the party… Mike is someone who really cares about government and its services working well for all the people…  He is someone we will always respect in the Democratic Party.”


 


Read more here, including how an ad by the Democratic Party sparked the investigation into this and two related cases.

Philadelphia Documents November 2012 Election “Challenges,” “Problems”



Philadelphia is no stranger to stories of election “irregularities” and voter fraud, and a Report to the City Commissioners on the November 2012 General Election confirms a number of procedural problems and illegal activities, including proof that ACORN-style voter registration practices continue in Philadelphia, courtesy of Obama for America and others:


 


From April 25, 2012 through October 9, 2012 the Voter Registration Office received 196,764 voter registration applications. This volume included registrations that were fraudulent, missing information, or not for Philadelphia residents… Some applications were turned in months after they had been filled out, so many individuals submitted duplicate applications…


 


In July, representatives from our staff and the Commissioners’ Offices requested a meeting with local representatives from Obama for America to discuss the concerns about the delays… less than an hour before the registration deadline, tens of thousands of applications were submitted by various organizations, including Obama for America, the Community Voter Project, and Grassroots Voter Outreach. Some of these applications dated back to early September.


 


 


And this, on votes reported stolen by voter impersonation fraud:


 


On Election Day, the City Commissioners Office was notified of five separate instances in which an individual claimed that there was already a signature next to their name in the poll books when they arrived to vote at their polling place. A further review of this issue is necessary to determine the cause and to verify the validity of these claims.


 


As with other crimes that have a low probability of prosecution, many more cases may go unreported.  But even in these documented cases, who will – or can – be prosecuted?  Not the fraudsters, who misrepresented their identities.  So these incidents will likely remain footnotes in a report, signaling fraudsters that they can continue to cheat unimpeded.  Meanwhile, deniers will continue to claim that this type of fraud is “non-existent” because there are no convictions and oppose the voter ID laws that could prevent it.

“Chairman Paul Ryan, Meet DOJ Lawyer Daniel Freeman”

Latest at PJ Rule of Law.

“Dear Representative Ryan:

I thought you might like to learn more about the fellow who boasted he started that wave of boos at your inaugural appearance: Department of Justice Voting Section lawyer Daniel Freeman. . . .


We understand, however, that your duties setting spending levels for federal agencies like the Department of Justice often leave you too busy to keep up with the partisan rot deep inside the civil service at DOJ. If your duties as Chair of the House Committee on the Budget permit just a few minutes, PJ Media thought you’d like to learn a bit more about the man who started the wave of boos against you, as well as how his office is corrupting the enforcement of federal election laws.


Come budget time, maybe your Committee can boo back.

 . . .

You’ll note that he didn’t have any experience in federal election law. No matter. Experience in the activist trenches as a radical leftist is the top qualification at Eric Holder’s Civil Rights Division. . . . “

Partisan Incivility on the Internet is Forever

What do you do when you turn into an embarrassing national news story of incivility after leading a chorus of boos against Paul Ryan?  Naturally delete the Twitter account that started the story – except you can’t.

Future defendants in DOJ Voting Section cases can gain access to the archive to harvest the partisan tweets, or just email one of the tech gurus covering the story.