Matt Boyle story:
The Mississippi law Adams cites, MS Code 23-15-575, states: “No person shall be eligible to participate in any primary election unless he intends to support the nominations made in which he participates.”
“Mississippi law prohibits Democrats from voting in a Republican primary,” Adams said in an emailed statement. “Obviously poll workers aren’t mind readers. But if someone doesn’t intend to support the nominee in November, then that person isn’t allowed to vote in the Republican primary.”
“Democrat Machine Notaries Now Working MS GOP Runoff”
Link at Tatler: Tatler has learned that Democrat notaries who engaged in illegal conduct in previous elections in Mississippi (according to a federal court ruling) are now harvesting absentee ballots for the Republican runoff from African-Americans who have always voted in Democratic Party primaries. Back in 2007, the United States Justice Department sued the chairman of the Noxubee Democratic Executive Committee, Ike Brown. I served on the team that prosecuted that case. Brown was found liable for discriminating against white voters from his perch as the head of the Democrat party. The federal court discussed the behavior of one particular notary – Carrie Kate Windham. Windham was found to have harvested votes as a notary, sometimes voting the actual ballots of the voters. You can read the whole opinion here (believe me, the conduct is so outrageous it is worth the read). The federal court: The Government also presented direct evidence of fraud in the collection of absentee ballots by one notary in particular, Carrie Kate Windham, who became a member of the NDEC during Brown’s chairmanship and whose notary application fee and surety bond were paid by Ike Brown. . . .According to Wood, Windham actually marks Wood’s ballot for her and selects candidates when Wood does not know whom she wants to vote for because, as Wood put it, Windham “knows folks” better than Wood does. Wood testified that her daughter lives with her, and although her daughter is not disabled or illiterate and was not going to be out of the county on election day, she was recruited to vote absentee by Windham. The same was true of Otis Shanklin, who also lives in Wood’s home. Shanklin is not disabled, can read, and is able to go to the poll on election day, yet he casts his vote by absentee ballot in every election and is assisted in every election by Windham; and if he does not know whom to vote for, he has Windham vote for him. This is the sort of voter fraud academics and political hacks (but I repeat myself) say is rare and doesn’t really amount to much. Tatler can report that the notaries who have been engaged in voter fraud going back at least a decade are now in the field once again harvesting absentee ballots from African-Americans in the Republican primary who normally never vote in the Republican primary in Mississippi.
Federal panel allows civil rights groups to sue Texas over “court approved interim maps” for dilution and discrimination
The Texas Legislature cannot catch a break. A three judge panel out of San Antonio ruled on a motion to dismiss the “never ending” redistricting litigation; allowing a lawsuit to continue against the 2013 redistricting maps approved by the Texas Legislature that were, in fact, identical to court-approved interim maps. Those interim maps were developed after guidance from the Supreme Court, input from the parties of lawsuit and approved by the court itself. Yet the court will now allow the plaintiff’s to continue to challenge those court-approved maps on dilution and discrimination grounds. The court is allowing the civil rights groups to make the argument and gather evidence that Texas legislators may have been discriminating against minority groups when they simply voted to adopt court-approved maps. To get any justice, Texas will need to appeal each and every ruling of this panel.
Court excerpt:
With regard to those elements of the 2011 plans that remained unchanged and remained challenged in the interim plans, when the Legislature adopted the Court’s interim plans it engaged in the same conduct or incorporated the identical portions of the 2011 plans alleged to be illegal into the 2013 plans. In addition, the Task Force Plaintiffs complain that the Legislature engaged in similar vote dilution conduct with regard to HD 90 in the 2013 session. Thus, there is evidence that the Legislature has already engaged in both identical and substantially similar conduct, making this case more like Aladdin’s Castle and Associated General Contractors. The fact that the State asserts that it believed the interim maps to be free from legal defect when it enacted them in 2013 goes to the merits of the controversy, not to whether a controversy remains to be decided.
Republican Lawyers on “Eric Holder’s Justice Department”
Link to the RNLA blog.
Hans von Spakovsky of The Heritage Foundation has co-authored a book with National Review Columnist John Fund entitled Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department. The book is a careful examination of the Holder Justice Department’s egregious violations of the law and relentless pursuit of the Obama political agenda.Hans von Spakovsky, who will be a featured speaker at this year’s National Election Law Seminar, presented his book during a panel discussion at The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. Von Spakovsky explains how Holder was selected by Obama for his reputation of partisan loyalty. “Eric Holder is an ideologue. He considers himself the President’s attorney first, the attorney general second. . . . He was the number two guy there at the Clinton Administration. In fact, he was the go-to guy for the White House. Why? Because they didn’t trust Janet Reno to make the right political decisions. But they trusted Eric Holder to do that.”Also on the panel, Fund says that, “the Supreme Court has ruled against the Justice Department’s position on key issues approximately a dozen times,” as a result of Holder’s extreme positions. He further highlights that, “these are all unanimous defeats. [O]ver the last two or three terms, the Obama Administration’s Justice Department has succeeded before the Supreme Court only about 40% of the time. That is compared to an average of over 70% for previous Presidents in the last half-century. To put that into perspective, they have failed more than twice as often as the Clinton Administration.”
Republican candidate for NV Secretary of State states priorities are voting equipment modernization, voter ID, and voter education
Link to Las Vegas Review Journal
New Oklahoma law changes early voting; removes Monday voting
ConnectAmarillo reports that Oklahoma implements new early voting days and times to maximize the use of it when voters may actually show up.
TEXAS COUNTY, OKLA. — A new Oklahoma state law which took effect on November 1, 2013, changes the dates and times voters have come to expect for early voting in Oklahoma.Now, early voting begins on Thursday and continues on Friday and Saturday, Texas County Election Board Secretary Glenda L. Williams said. Of special note, early voting is no longer conducted on Monday.These changes have occurred due to the approval of SB 869, which was signed into law in May, 2013. As a result, Thursday, June 19 is the first day for in-person absentee, aka “early” voting, in the June 24th primary election, Williams said.The new law also adjusts the hours for Saturday in-person absentee voting. Saturday voting now takes place from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Williams explained that during federal and state elections such as this one, voter turnout is often heavier and providing early voting on Saturday gives voters an additional opportunity to vote before election day.
Arizona SOS candidates on temporary two-track voting system
Link to AZCentral. This is what happens when the federal government refuses to be reasonable on verification of citizenship.
“NY Dem: Illegals Should Have the Right to Vote”
New York state Sen. Gustavo Rivera wants to pass legislation to give illegal immigrants the right to vote in local and state elections… The legislation not only gives illegal immigrants the right to vote, but establishes a kind of second-tiered citizenship on a state level, in which illegal immigrants can apply for tuition assistance, health insurance and driver’s and professional licenses, among other benefits. “It’s mind-boggling,” says Michael Olivas, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center who specializes in immigration law, according to Businessweek. “I don’t believe there’s ever been a serious attempt to codify so many benefits and opportunities.”
Rivera acknowledges his New York Is Home Act is too extreme even for New York – for now.
“Hawaii Early Voting Site Closure: Money Talks”
Despite the name-calling and clamor, the cost-benefit analysis usually wins out in the end. A blue state may regret the reduction of early voting days and sites, the red states get sued for similar moves.
Hillary Clinton supports automatic registration for anyone over 18 years old
The Clinton News Network gives one potential candidate for President over one hour of free time. Clinton is parsing already. She opposes “compulsory voting” but states that anyone over 18 should be “automatically registered.” She supports compulsory registration no matter whether the person is qualified to vote, not qualified to vote and would establish the registration without the knowledge or affirmation of the voter of key important data that determines whether the voter is even qualified to vote. Don’t worry, Big Government will get the registration right.