The voter fraud case in Hialeah expanded Friday to include the uncle of former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina. Sergio Robaina, 74, turned himself into authorities Friday afternoon. He has been charged with two felony counts of voter fraud and two misdemeanor counts of violating a county ordinance that prohibits having more than two absentee ballots. He is accused of filling out absentee ballots for a woman and her son. The investigation originated with the U.S. Postal Service, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said. “Postal Service finds 160 some odd ballots arrived overnight, they call the Elections Department, the Elections Department calls the police and our prosecutors,” she said. Robaina is being held on $12,000 bond, according to online Miami-Dade Corrections records. It was not immediately known whether he has an attorney.
Vote fraud scandal in Miami expands … upward
The voter fraud case in Hialeah expanded Friday to include the uncle of former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina. Sergio Robaina, 74, turned himself into authorities Friday afternoon. He has been charged with two felony counts of voter fraud and two misdemeanor counts of violating a county ordinance that prohibits having more than two absentee ballots. He is accused of filling out absentee ballots for a woman and her son. The investigation originated with the U.S. Postal Service, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said. “Postal Service finds 160 some odd ballots arrived overnight, they call the Elections Department, the Elections Department calls the police and our prosecutors,” she said. Robaina is being held on $12,000 bond, according to online Miami-Dade Corrections records. It was not immediately known whether he has an attorney.
“President Obama is Failing Military Voters”
Attorney Joel Arends, Chairman of Veterans for a Strong America pens the following opinion piece. President Obama is the first and only Commander-in-Chief in the history of the Republic to petition a federal court claiming that allowing the men and women who serve under his command three extra days to vote in-person by absentee ballot is a violation of the United States Constitution. The former constitutional law professor’s campaign has brought suit and filed a formal legal complaint with a federal judge in the key swing-state of Ohio which asserts that his campaign cannot “discern[]” any “legitimate justification” for giving members of the military extra time to participate in early voting. In that same complaint, the President’s campaign argues at least twenty times that the Ohio legislature had no good reason to extend reasonable voting accommodations to military voters and that the law is unconstitutional
“President Obama is Failing Military Voters”
Attorney Joel Arends, Chairman of Veterans for a Strong America pens the following opinion piece. President Obama is the first and only Commander-in-Chief in the history of the Republic to petition a federal court claiming that allowing the men and women who serve under his command three extra days to vote in-person by absentee ballot is a violation of the United States Constitution. The former constitutional law professor’s campaign has brought suit and filed a formal legal complaint with a federal judge in the key swing-state of Ohio which asserts that his campaign cannot “discern[]” any “legitimate justification” for giving members of the military extra time to participate in early voting. In that same complaint, the President’s campaign argues at least twenty times that the Ohio legislature had no good reason to extend reasonable voting accommodations to military voters and that the law is unconstitutional
South Carolina’s Voter ID Laws “Target Fraud, Not People”
“It’s very important that each citizen is guaranteed their vote and that it not be adulterated by those voting illegally, whether they’re noncitizens, impersonating somebody else or taking somebody else’s ID to vote.”
South Carolina’s Voter ID Laws “Target Fraud, Not People”
“It’s very important that each citizen is guaranteed their vote and that it not be adulterated by those voting illegally, whether they’re noncitizens, impersonating somebody else or taking somebody else’s ID to vote.”
Widespread Voter ID Disenfranchisement Fails to Materialize in Tennessee
“Statewide, 277 people cast provisional ballots for photo ID reasons, with 115 of them being counted after voters went to election offices in the required time and showed a proper photo ID, the state Division of Elections reported. That left 162 without a vote counted across the state.” Or about .026% of over 617,000 votes cast. More here.
Widespread Voter ID Disenfranchisement Fails to Materialize in Tennessee
“Statewide, 277 people cast provisional ballots for photo ID reasons, with 115 of them being counted after voters went to election offices in the required time and showed a proper photo ID, the state Division of Elections reported. That left 162 without a vote counted across the state.” Or about .026% of over 617,000 votes cast. More here.
“Why should we beg anyone to vote”
Jeff Jacoby with the Boston Globe:
Senator Scott Brown is right: For the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be mailing voter-registration forms to nearly 480,000 welfare recipients — at a cost to taxpayers of more than $275,000 — is indeed “outrageous.” as the Republican incumbent declared last week. The vast get-out-the-welfare-vote campaign “smells wrong,” he says. So it does, but not for the reason he claims.
…Higher voter turnout is no proof of civic health. Voting is only a means, not the end, of democratic self-government. Of course every citizen has the right to vote, including those who are ignorant, apathetic, or indifferent. But why should Americans who take their vote seriously want to increase electoral participation by those who don’t?
Registering to vote isn’t complicated. By and large, Americans who don’t vote don’t want to vote. In 2008 the Census Bureau found that by far the largest share of unregistered voters (46 percent) reported that they were “not interested in the election [or] not interested in politics.” Their nonparticipation is rational, and we should respect it.
“Why should we beg anyone to vote”
Jeff Jacoby with the Boston Globe:
Senator Scott Brown is right: For the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be mailing voter-registration forms to nearly 480,000 welfare recipients — at a cost to taxpayers of more than $275,000 — is indeed “outrageous.” as the Republican incumbent declared last week. The vast get-out-the-welfare-vote campaign “smells wrong,” he says. So it does, but not for the reason he claims.
…Higher voter turnout is no proof of civic health. Voting is only a means, not the end, of democratic self-government. Of course every citizen has the right to vote, including those who are ignorant, apathetic, or indifferent. But why should Americans who take their vote seriously want to increase electoral participation by those who don’t?
Registering to vote isn’t complicated. By and large, Americans who don’t vote don’t want to vote. In 2008 the Census Bureau found that by far the largest share of unregistered voters (46 percent) reported that they were “not interested in the election [or] not interested in politics.” Their nonparticipation is rational, and we should respect it.