Mississippi Voter ID cards available to voters displaced by storms



Mississippi continues to lead the way in providing voters easy access to free photo voter IDs:


 


The Secretary of State’s office says employees will travel to any eligible voter who was displaced during the storms and needs a Mississippi Voter ID card.



“We want to provide a convenience to anyone who lost their identification during the storms and may not have a photo ID to present on Election Day,” says Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann.



Officials say circuit clerk’s offices will issue Mississippi Voter ID cards to anyone who lacks another acceptable form of photo ID, even when a citizen is not a resident of that county.  Free transportation to and from the circuit clerk’s office is also available.


“FEC Chair: Government May Soon Move To Limit Conservative Media”

Daily Caller reports on the FEC Chair’s warning:  No surprise here.  The former FEC attorney Lois Lerner moved from the FEC to the IRS and moved to stop conservatives. 

Federal Election Commission Chairman Lee E. Goodman warned that the federal government — including some officials in his office — may soon move to clamp down on conservative media.

“I think that there are impulses in the government every day to second guess and look into the editorial decisions of conservative publishers,” Goodman told Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner on Wednesday.

At threat, in Goodman’s estimation, is the media’s exemption from federal election laws governing political organizations like PACs. Many in government want to curtail the ability of all news outlets to endorse and promote candidates and issues without any limits or disclosure requirements.

Some have already tried. The FEC Chairman explained that in two different instances, high-ranking officials attempted to regulate both Sean Hannity’s radio program and the Citizens United movie production studio. Those initiatives were defeated, but Democrats on the board often voted to abolish the media exemption.

“Midterm Election Turnout Isn’t So Different From Presidential Year Turnout”

FiveThirtyEightPolitics reports that all the convoluted explanations by Democrats that low turnout and different demographics in mid-terms is the cause of their current unfavorable position, do not hold up to scrutiny.

But turnout isn’t nearly as important as D.C. wags make it out to be. The demographics of who voted in 2012 vs. 2010 were different, but that difference didn’t make much of a difference. The reason Republicans won more votes in 2010 — and likely will in 2014 — is that voters wanted Republicans in office, not that minorities and young people didn’t turn out to vote.

“Judge rewrites description of Nevada voter ID measure backed by Sharron Angle”


A state judge Wednesday rewrote a description that details the effect of a voter photo identification initiative backed by conservative activist Sharron Angle.

After two separate hearings on challenges to the initiative’s wording, Carson City District Court Judge James Russell came up with his own language describing what the proposed constitutional amendment would do.

Russell added words clarifying acceptable forms of identity to include state of Nevada or federal government documents, as opposed to “certain government-issued documents” included in the original petition that critics said was vague.

…Angle added she’s confident supporters will be able to gather the roughly 101,000 signatures needed by June 17 to qualify for the November ballot.

Second Federal Court Spanking of “Voting Rights Gladiator”

Tabella notes below that United States District Court Judge Eric Melgren has ordered the EAC to immediately issue a federal registration form in the format sought by Kansas.  It allows Kansas to verify citizenship of registrants. 

The federal government had brazenly defied Melgren’s earlier order and refused to issue the new form, instead filing a motion for stay of Melgren’s order.

The attorney who filed the motion for the stay was the same attorney who was spanked by Judge Melgren’s first order ruling in favor of Kansas and Arizona – Bradley Heard. 



Heard is the same DOJ lawyer who on his Twitter account called himself a “Voting Rights Gladiator” and “outside agitator.”  He also tweeted out on his personal Twitter account his own mental impressions about arguments he made while representing the United States of America in a hearing before Judge Melgren.

Heard is also the same lawyer who embarrassed the Justice Department by wasting taxpayer dollars by filing a brief complaining about the font size of a brief submitted by South Carolina.  Heard is the same lawyer who was accused by his former law partners of misconduct, after which Heard tried to have his ex-partners arrested.

Soon after I wrote about these inappropriate and potentially unethical public communications by Heard on his Twitter account, Deputy Attorney General James Cole issued a memo to DOJ lawyers about inappropriate use of Twitter and other social media.  The Cole memo describes unprofessional and undesirable behavior which precisely matches the behavior of Heard.

Heard is still employed by the Department of Justice Voting Section. His Twitter profile still refers to himself as a “Voting Rights Gladiator,” even though Heard is prohibited from involvement in any private matters involving the Voting Rights Act outside of his employment with the Justice Department.  In other words, his status as a self-professed “Gladiator” must necessarily relate to his employment at the Voting Section of the Justice Department.

It is unclear if a Voting Rights Gladiator has the same duties and responsibilities as a Deputy Chief, or more similar to a Special Litigation Counsel.

“Legalizing Voter Fraud”

“They flagrantly flout the law, while simultaneously turning it into a weapon against political opponents, use government agencies to target innocent Americans, attempt to create legal voters through amnesty, and undermine voter integrity measures to facilitate vote fraud, while denying it even exists. In short, they are corrupting the entire process.”

Jim Simpson at Accuracy in Media.