The York Daily Record decides.

The York Daily Record decides.

That voter fraud and other shenanigans might have taken place in the
district which stretches from Harlem to The Bronx will surprise no one
familiar with the grand traditions of New York politics. Nor is there
anything particularly innovative about the allies of an establishment
figure like Rangel working within the system to make it more difficult
for a challenger to take him on.

Given the way these things generally work in New York, we may never
know whether Espaillat actually beat Rangel. Nor can we be sure whether
the voters allegedly turned away at the polls were really ineligible (in
which case Espaillat’s camp was trying to game the results). But what
we do know is that wherever politicians and their friends are tempted to
cheat, that is exactly what they will do. The stakes involved in such
races are high, and anyone who assumes Rangel or any other entrenched
officeholder will not stoop to twist, bend or otherwise mutilate the
results in order to hang on knows nothing about American political
history or politicians.

Full piece by Jonathan Tobin @ Commentary Magazine.

That voter fraud and other shenanigans might have taken place in the
district which stretches from Harlem to The Bronx will surprise no one
familiar with the grand traditions of New York politics. Nor is there
anything particularly innovative about the allies of an establishment
figure like Rangel working within the system to make it more difficult
for a challenger to take him on.

Given the way these things generally work in New York, we may never
know whether Espaillat actually beat Rangel. Nor can we be sure whether
the voters allegedly turned away at the polls were really ineligible (in
which case Espaillat’s camp was trying to game the results). But what
we do know is that wherever politicians and their friends are tempted to
cheat, that is exactly what they will do. The stakes involved in such
races are high, and anyone who assumes Rangel or any other entrenched
officeholder will not stoop to twist, bend or otherwise mutilate the
results in order to hang on knows nothing about American political
history or politicians.

Full piece by Jonathan Tobin @ Commentary Magazine.

John Fund latest piece at National Review Online headlines “How the New York primary exemplifies how many American elections are amateurishly run.”

The near-meltdown in the
vote count for the New York Democratic primary featuring scandal-tarred
congressman Charlie Rangel should serve as a warning siren about what
could happen in this November’s national election. It’s not just voter
fraud we have to worry about. Sometimes it’s hard to tell where the
fraud ends and the incompetence begins.

The Rangel fiasco reminds us that the United States has, as
Walter Dean Burnham, the nation’s leading political scientist, put it,
“the developed world’s sloppiest election systems.” And New York City is
no unsophisticated backwater.

The troubles in the Rangel race began on Election Night, June
26. The voting-machine totals put down on paper had the incumbent
beating his challenger, state senator Adriano Espaillat, by a
comfortable 2,300 votes in a Harlem district that is now equally divided
between black and Hispanic populations.

Full story here.

John Fund latest piece at National Review Online headlines “How the New York primary exemplifies how many American elections are amateurishly run.”

The near-meltdown in the
vote count for the New York Democratic primary featuring scandal-tarred
congressman Charlie Rangel should serve as a warning siren about what
could happen in this November’s national election. It’s not just voter
fraud we have to worry about. Sometimes it’s hard to tell where the
fraud ends and the incompetence begins.

The Rangel fiasco reminds us that the United States has, as
Walter Dean Burnham, the nation’s leading political scientist, put it,
“the developed world’s sloppiest election systems.” And New York City is
no unsophisticated backwater.

The troubles in the Rangel race began on Election Night, June
26. The voting-machine totals put down on paper had the incumbent
beating his challenger, state senator Adriano Espaillat, by a
comfortable 2,300 votes in a Harlem district that is now equally divided
between black and Hispanic populations.

Full story here.

Newsmax: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted the Obama administration
for supporting the Disclose Act in an Op-Ed today, calling it “an
attempt to identify and punish political enemies, or at the very least,
intimidate others from participating in the process.”

Newsmax: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted the Obama administration
for supporting the Disclose Act in an Op-Ed today, calling it “an
attempt to identify and punish political enemies, or at the very least,
intimidate others from participating in the process.”

The Mississippi Secretary of State’s new outreach program, designed to assist those who might need help getting photo voter identification, has only received a few responses in its first two weeks. 

Is there really a “photo ID gap” or do the healthy turnout statistics and proven ability of Georgia (and Indiana) Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics to obtain photo identification dispel the myth of any discriminatory photo ID gap?  The lukewarm response by Mississippi citizens to acquire free photo identification raises serious doubts to the claims of a great divide and need among the citizenry.

The Mississippi Secretary of State’s new outreach program, designed to assist those who might need help getting photo voter identification, has only received a few responses in its first two weeks. 

Is there really a “photo ID gap” or do the healthy turnout statistics and proven ability of Georgia (and Indiana) Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics to obtain photo identification dispel the myth of any discriminatory photo ID gap?  The lukewarm response by Mississippi citizens to acquire free photo identification raises serious doubts to the claims of a great divide and need among the citizenry.