“Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department”

Excerpts from the new fascinating book on Eric Holder’s reign at the Department of Justice.
The evidence is clear that Eric Holder and his political subordinates have politicized the Justice Department to an unprecedented degree — “worse than John Mitchell under Richard Nixon” one former Justice Department lawyer told the authors.  This is quite a criticism given that many DOJ veterans believe that the Department reached its nadir under Mitchell.  But Mitchell seems like an amateur by comparison to how Holder has corrupted the law enforcement duties of the Justice Department to carry out the political objectives of Barack Obama and to implement his radical ideology.
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“Liberals Mourn Cantor Defeat”

Fund at National Review:

“ontrary to conventional wisdom, many liberals privately mourn the departure of Eric Cantor from the ranks of the House GOP leadership. At a symposium on Wednesday sponsored by The Hill newspaper on “Voting in America,” several of the attendees told me that they and Majority Leader Cantor were within striking distance of a compromise to restore many of the provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that were struck down by the Supreme Court last year as unconstitutional. The Court ruled that certain provisions that singled out certain states and jurisdictions for special oversight based on 50-year-old data were obsolete and could no longer be justified. Liberal civil-rights groups were furious and vowed to pass a “restoration” bill restoring all of the Justice Department’s power over federal elections. . . .

Representative Cantor has been strangely silent on the Voting Rights Amendment Act since it was introduced in January with the support of 80 liberal groups along with renegade GOP Representative Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, who recently demonstrated in a James O’Keefe “sting” video just how little he understands his own bill.”

Evidence of voter fraud leads S. Texas judge to order new election in contested city race



Yes, voter fraud exists – as South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley continues to prove – and yes, it changes the outcome of elections:


 


A judge called for a new election in a heated Weslaco city commissioner race. In November 2013, Lupe Rivera won the election against Letty Lopez by 16 votes. Lopez quickly filed a lawsuit claiming at least 44 votes were illegally cast for Rivera.


 


The suit claimed nearly two dozen out-of-district voters registered to vote at in-district homes belonging to Rivera’s friends, neighbors or relatives. The suit also claimed that more than 20 mail-in ballots were illegally cast for Rivera…


 


During his review, the judge rejected Rivera’s “home is where the heart is” residency standard. Some of the disallowed ballots were cast by voters claiming Rivera’s childhood home as their address. It’s a two-bed, one-bath home. Others were disallowed because the voters listed on the ballot testified that they did not, in fact, cast those votes.


 


Defendant Rivera’s attorney, who just happens to be Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa, plans to appeal.


Left wing Professor of Economic Policy Robert Reich says “free” Mississippi Voter ID is not affordable

The Christian Science Monitor may want to ask columnists to do a bit more research.  And this was our Secretary of Labor?  He knows nothing of what he speaks.

First the headline states: Mississippi’s new voter-identification law suppresses those who cannot afford the cost of a photo ID,  writes Robert Reich.  
And the so-called expert in Economic Policy Robert Reich launches into the misleading and false narrative.  What about free is “unaffordable” to the poor and suppressing those unable to afford “free.”  What a load of idiocy.  
Mississippi used its new voter-identification law for the first time Tuesday — requiring voters to show a driver’s license or other government-issued photo ID at the polls.

The official reason given for the new law is alleged voter fraud, although the state hasn’t been able to provide any evidence that voter fraud is a problem.

The real reason for the law is to suppress the votes of the poor, especially African-Americans, some of whom won’t be able to afford the cost of a photo ID.

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Alabama Secretary of State says new photo Voter ID law successful


Very successful:



According to Alabama’s Secretary of State, there were only three documented complaints or issues stemming from last week’s primary election with the new law that requires voters to show a government issued photo ID at the polls.



“When you have 613,000 voters and you only have two or three complaints, you know you’re doing pretty well,” Secretary of State Jim Bennett said. “It went smoothly.” 

Only three complaints. “Pretty well” is as understated as the anti-ID crowd’s doomsday predictions were overstated.  Time to move on. 


Mississippi County: “Seamless process with ID”

FORREST COUNTY, MS (WDAM) – The June 3rd primary was the first time Mississippi voters were required to present photo identification at the polls, and Forrest County’s voters had no issues, according to circuit clerk Lou Ellen Adams.

“We didn’t have problems,” said Adams. “Everything went smooth.”

Adams said the county issued fewer than 50 voter IDs before the primary. Of the voters in Forrest County, only eight showed up to vote without an ID.

Mississippi law allows voters to fill out an affidavit ballot if they do not have proper identification on Election Day. They are then given no more than seven days to present a photo ID to their circuit clerk in order for their ballot to be counted. 

False Prophets of Doom Fail Again in North Dakota: “Voter ID law causes few troubles at polls”

FARGO — North Dakota’s first election with a new voter identification law in place went smoothly, state and local election officials say, but not without a few hiccups. In Cass County, just a handful of voters weren’t allowed to vote on Tuesday because their addresses were out of date, election coordinator DeAnn Buckhouse said.  More at the Jamestown Sun.

Predictions of Doom by ID opponents in Mississippi were off by 99.9%

The Hattiesburg American reports on highly inaccurate predictions of doom that actual elections never bear out.  

The Republican released figures showing 513 Mississippians cast affidavit ballots June 3 because they lacked proper identification, with at least 177 returning later to show ID and get votes counted. Another 298 ballots were rejected because people did not return by the Tuesday deadline, and 13 were rejected for other reasons, such as voters not being registered. Three counties with 25 ballots among them had not reported by Wednesday what happened to those affidavits.  A total of 400,000 ballots were cast.

…New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, a leading opponent of voter ID laws, had estimated that 48,000 Mississippians could have trouble obtaining photo identification. Hosemann dismissed that estimate Wednesday, saying he thought that less than 2,000 ID cards issued by clerks showed most Mississippians already had ID.

But Larry Norden, deputy director of the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, said people who otherwise may have voted stayed away.