Following this month’s earlier guilty pleas in federal court to felony election fraud charges by four Arkansas men, including now-former state representative Hudson Hallum, five more have been charged with absentee ballot fraud during the same 2011 elections: “Five Crittenden County residents were charged Tuesday with using absentee ballots to defraud an election official during three special elections in 2011… Those who were charged Tuesday are: Eric Fontain Cox, Amos Sanders, Lisa Burns, Deshay Lorenzo Parker III and Leroy Grant.” Can a few fraudulent ballots change the outcome of an election? Ask Hallum – he won the 2011 Democratic primary runoff election by eight votes.
Absentee Ballot Fraud in Miami
Fox News has the story:
“Absentee ballot voting is by definition open to possible fraud in that the individual who gets the ballot could be subject to either intimidation or manipulation in some fashion,” Pastor said. “This is not very easy to determine.”
J. Christian Adams, a former Department of Justice official, recalled how he litigated a 2005 absentee ballot fraud case in federal court in Mississippi. A judge ruled that Mississippi’s former Noxubee County Democratic Party leader, Ike Brown, in collaboration with the Noxubee Democratic Executive Committee “manipulated the political process in ways specifically intended and designed to impair and impede participation of white voters and to dilute their votes.”
“It’s sophisticated people preying on the unsophisticated,” Adams said of the “boleteros” problem. “It’s persuasive people preying on the indifferent.”
It is humorous that in a story that has absolutely nothing to do with Voter ID, some can’t help themselves and are compelled to trumpet their biases against voter ID, no matter the intervew topic.
Absentee Ballot Fraud in Miami
Fox News has the story:
“Absentee ballot voting is by definition open to possible fraud in that the individual who gets the ballot could be subject to either intimidation or manipulation in some fashion,” Pastor said. “This is not very easy to determine.”
J. Christian Adams, a former Department of Justice official, recalled how he litigated a 2005 absentee ballot fraud case in federal court in Mississippi. A judge ruled that Mississippi’s former Noxubee County Democratic Party leader, Ike Brown, in collaboration with the Noxubee Democratic Executive Committee “manipulated the political process in ways specifically intended and designed to impair and impede participation of white voters and to dilute their votes.”
“It’s sophisticated people preying on the unsophisticated,” Adams said of the “boleteros” problem. “It’s persuasive people preying on the indifferent.”
It is humorous that in a story that has absolutely nothing to do with Voter ID, some can’t help themselves and are compelled to trumpet their biases against voter ID, no matter the intervew topic.
Florida Finds and Purges NonCitizen Voters
It took a lot of gnashing of teeth, DOJ resistance, partisan hyperbole but finally Florida has a process that is more accurate in identifying non-citizens. Miami Herald has more. The 73-year-old Caragan, who moved to the United States in 1970 from the Philippines, said that when she was living in Norfolk, Va., more than 35 years ago, she renewed her driver’s license and registered to vote at the same time, without realizing it was illegal.”
“But Anita Caragan of Panama City Beach, a U.S. resident who is not a citizen, told a Herald reporter that she has been voting “for a long, long time.” Records show the no-party-affiliation noncitizen has cast ballots in 10 Florida elections since 2000.
Noncitizen voting is a federal felony enforced by the Department of Justice.
Florida Finds and Purges NonCitizen Voters
It took a lot of gnashing of teeth, DOJ resistance, partisan hyperbole but finally Florida has a process that is more accurate in identifying non-citizens. Miami Herald has more. The 73-year-old Caragan, who moved to the United States in 1970 from the Philippines, said that when she was living in Norfolk, Va., more than 35 years ago, she renewed her driver’s license and registered to vote at the same time, without realizing it was illegal.”
“But Anita Caragan of Panama City Beach, a U.S. resident who is not a citizen, told a Herald reporter that she has been voting “for a long, long time.” Records show the no-party-affiliation noncitizen has cast ballots in 10 Florida elections since 2000.
Noncitizen voting is a federal felony enforced by the Department of Justice.
Finger pointing in North Carolina over deceased on voter rolls
Forsyth County has 550 dead people on its voter registration rolls,
according to a Raleigh-based group dedicated to rooting out potential
voter fraud. But
Rob Coffman, the elections director for Forsyth County, said there are
problems with the group’s data and he doesn’t plan to remove those names
until he gets more information and direction from the state elections
board. The Voter Integrity Project delivered to the N.C. State
Board of Elections the names of 27,561 people who the group says are
registered voters who are dead…
Link to the full story
Finger pointing in North Carolina over deceased on voter rolls
Forsyth County has 550 dead people on its voter registration rolls,
according to a Raleigh-based group dedicated to rooting out potential
voter fraud. But
Rob Coffman, the elections director for Forsyth County, said there are
problems with the group’s data and he doesn’t plan to remove those names
until he gets more information and direction from the state elections
board. The Voter Integrity Project delivered to the N.C. State
Board of Elections the names of 27,561 people who the group says are
registered voters who are dead…
Link to the full story
Wisconsin election officials say they are ready to implement voter ID ruling
If the state’s controversial voter ID law is put back in place before
November, Wisconsin election officials say they’re ready to help
election officials and the public prepare. Link to more.
Wisconsin election officials say they are ready to implement voter ID ruling
If the state’s controversial voter ID law is put back in place before
November, Wisconsin election officials say they’re ready to help
election officials and the public prepare. Link to more.
Tennessee Judge dismisses challenge to Voter ID law
A state judge today dismissed a challenge to Tennessee’s controversial
voter identification law, ruling six weeks before the November general
election that requiring voters to show state-issued ID at the ballot
booth does not violate the Tennessee constitution. Link.