More on why a majority supports Minnesota’s voter ID amendment here.
“Our votes control trillions of public dollars and unfathomable political power. Think no one would be tempted to steal them?”
Rhode Island Democrats Disprove Media Myth That Voter ID Is “Racist”
“The keyword is balance. There’s always a concern about disenfranchisement, and we should make every effort to ensure that everyone who is eligible to vote can vote. But it has gotten to the point where there is such fear over disenfranchisement that people just buried their heads when it comes time to deal with voter fraud, and that is not healthy for our democracy.” More here.
By raising the bogus specter of racism to undermine and discredit new ID laws, the news media is doing a great disservice to those Americans who are victimized by voter fraud. The list includes Democratic Rep. Anastasia Williams, an African-American from Providence, RI, who was turned away from the polls after someone illegally voted in her place.
State Senator Harold Metts, a black Democrat who championed Rhode Island’s new photo voter ID law in response to multiple voter fraud complaints from his own constituents, says:
Rhode Island Democrats Disprove Media Myth That Voter ID Is “Racist”
“The keyword is balance. There’s always a concern about disenfranchisement, and we should make every effort to ensure that everyone who is eligible to vote can vote. But it has gotten to the point where there is such fear over disenfranchisement that people just buried their heads when it comes time to deal with voter fraud, and that is not healthy for our democracy.” More here.
By raising the bogus specter of racism to undermine and discredit new ID laws, the news media is doing a great disservice to those Americans who are victimized by voter fraud. The list includes Democratic Rep. Anastasia Williams, an African-American from Providence, RI, who was turned away from the polls after someone illegally voted in her place.
State Senator Harold Metts, a black Democrat who championed Rhode Island’s new photo voter ID law in response to multiple voter fraud complaints from his own constituents, says:
“States blasted for late absentee ballots”
Air Force Times reports: A group of key lawmakers want assurances from the Defense and Justice
departments that the rights of military and overseas citizens who vote
absentee will be protected in the Nov. 6 elections.“We are
concerned that, absent prompt and effective remedial action, some men
and women in uniform will be deprived of the 45-day window to vote
guaranteed” by the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act, stated
an Oct. 11 letter signed by Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the
House Armed Services Committee; Rep. Daniel E. Lungren, R-Calif.,
chairman of the House Administration Committee; and Rep. Lamar Smith,
R-Texas, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee
“States blasted for late absentee ballots”
Air Force Times reports: A group of key lawmakers want assurances from the Defense and Justice
departments that the rights of military and overseas citizens who vote
absentee will be protected in the Nov. 6 elections.“We are
concerned that, absent prompt and effective remedial action, some men
and women in uniform will be deprived of the 45-day window to vote
guaranteed” by the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act, stated
an Oct. 11 letter signed by Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the
House Armed Services Committee; Rep. Daniel E. Lungren, R-Calif.,
chairman of the House Administration Committee; and Rep. Lamar Smith,
R-Texas, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee
15 states and several military organizations back Ohio in early voting case
AP reports: Fifteen states and several military organizations announced their
support for Ohio’s elections chief on Friday in a dispute over early
voting in the presidential battleground, which is being appealed to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
15 states and several military organizations back Ohio in early voting case
AP reports: Fifteen states and several military organizations announced their
support for Ohio’s elections chief on Friday in a dispute over early
voting in the presidential battleground, which is being appealed to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
UPDATE: “Ohio Voter Fraud Billboards Will Stay”
Clear Channel says “it has no plans to take the ads down,” which are appearing in Milwaukee as well as Cleveland and Columbus. Free Speech – 1, Racialist Bully AFL-CIO Executive VP Arlene Holt Baker – 0.
UPDATE: “Ohio Voter Fraud Billboards Will Stay”
Clear Channel says “it has no plans to take the ads down,” which are appearing in Milwaukee as well as Cleveland and Columbus. Free Speech – 1, Racialist Bully AFL-CIO Executive VP Arlene Holt Baker – 0.
Criminal Voter Fraud Defendants Play Race Card in Florida
As we’ve seen so many times before, defendants charged in a criminal voter fraud case in Madison Florida are playing the race card, this time in Florida. “Racially motivated voter suppression.” In August 2009, Rosie Lyles reversed herself and entered a guilty plea to possessing forged absentee ballots. The following month, Valada Paige Banks did a similar about-face and entered a guilty plea to possession of forged absentee ballot applications. The convictions of Tinker, Lyles, and Banks all involved actions identical to the ones Faye Cochran had complained about to DOJ lawyer Avner Shapiro a decade earlier.
Let’s journey back to Hale County Alabama. From my book Injustice (Amazon link over there <—–)
As the investigation wrapped up, Attorney General King described “a systemic problem of corruption” in Hale. “It is a culture problem, an elite believing they have the right to decide who holds office,” he declared. Eventually three women active in the all-black political faction would face justice. Two of them, Valada Paige Banks (who had previously been convicted of welfare fraud)and Rosie Lyles, were indicted on multiple felony voter fraud counts in August 2007. In a stunning display of racial solidarity, more than 200 people, almost all black, packed their arraignment hearing and loudly applauded when not guilty pleas were entered. In a corrupt appropriation of the moral authority of the civil rights movement, they wore t-shirts that said, “Greensboro 2: Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere.” Outside the courthouse, supporters held hands in a huge circle, sang songs from the civil rights movement, and prayed for the defendants’ legal deliverance. . . .