Wisconsin Supreme Court Takes Pass on Voter ID
Voting Rights Act and Navy Destroyers
The Defense Department Press Release here. “His work on civil rights continued with the passage of the Voting Rights Act, which guaranteed voting rights for all people, regardless of race. Johnson signed legislation establishing Medicare, which allowed millions of elderly Americans access to cheaper medical services. He also launched the Head Start Program, which provided preschool children from low-income families with classes, medical care, and other services.”
More Votes Than Voters in Philadelphia Count
Morning Laugher: A Voter Fraud Story From Outer Space
Here is a story about American elections from the United Arab Emirates. It reads like some bizarre radio signal bounce from a distant star, unclear, filled with static, hazy and skewed. (This was a plot in a movie, Contact??, where audio of Hitler radio transmissions returned to Earth in a retransmission that took light years).
The article’s strange start:
“Imagine a country without an election commission, where the state makes no effort to prepare an electoral register at national, regional, or provincial level, where it is left to citizens get themselves on the register, and where the ruling party in every province writes the rules and procedures for registration and then conducts the poll and the count. Imagine a country where a federal court decision has been necessary to bar voter intimidation by party supporters who demand to see voters’ identification at polling stations, challenge voters’ credentials, film them as they vote, distribute leaflets stating the penalties for voting fraud, and bombard selected neighbourhoods with junk mail, which is often returned undelivered and then used by party zealots to claim that the voters concerned do not live at the addresses shown on the electoral roll.”
Game on. I’ll imagine it. But it isn’t the United States of America.
“Voter intimidation in the US is hardly new, and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law has published several reports on the Republicans’ methods for interfering with citizens’ freedom to vote.”
My heavens, the Soros funded Brennan Center has cred in the Gulf States? It seems so:
“Voter fraud minimal: The fact is, however, that there is almost no voter fraud in the US.”
The lecture from the mideast continues:
“Yet the Republican allegations of voter fraud, however devoid of proof, divert the media from a deadly serious threat to American democracy, namely the bewildering variety of electoral registration processes which Republican-held states in particular have created.”
The only thing bewildering is whether this slop was run through a Google translator or if people somewhere in the United Arab Emirates really wrote this in English.
And now the signal skip from a distant star, about 2.5 light years away: “The lawyer, David Iglesias, who is in fact a Republican supporter, added that his political seniors were looking for ‘improperly politicised US attorneys’ to file bogus cases. The Bush administration then sacked him and six of his colleagues for refusing to bring illegal prosecutions in ‘baseless cases against innocent citizens.’”
David Iglesias?! Doesn’t he have a book? I believe so, but I have forgotten the title.
Eversole in Washington Times: DOJ Allowing States to Ignore MOVE ACT
Washington Times: But, even when the Voting Section does act, the negotiated settlements with states often lack meaningful relief or real consequences for the local election officials who missed the deadline. Take, for example, the case against New York in 2010. . . .”
“Much of the blame for this recurring nightmare rests with the Department of Justice and its Voting Section. Time and again, the Voting Section has been dilatory in its investigations and has failed to take timely action. These failures were well documented in 2010.
WI Supreme Court Declines to Hear Voter ID Appeals
State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is “surprised and disappointed.” Bloomberg reports:
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of a lower-court judge’s ruling last month that the state’s voter-identification requirement is unconstitutional. In an accompanying order issued today, the state’s top court also declined to review another judge’s order that temporarily blocked enforcement of the requirement that voters appear at their polling places bearing a government-issued photo identification.
The same day the orders were released, trial began in one of the voter ID challenges, Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP v. Walker. Meanwhile, Governor Walker, who signed voter ID into law, faces recall elections May 8 (primary) and June 5, presumably without the safeguard of voter ID. And coincidentally, Judge David Flanagan, who issued the temporary injunction blocking enforcement of voter ID and is hearing NAACP v. Walker, signed a petition to recall Walker.
New Accusations in Troy (NY) Vote Fraud Case
YNN. “Some of the voters who had come forward and claimed that some of the documents presented to them, they had never seen before,” said Rensselaer County Elections Commissioner Ed McDonough.
McDonough and former Troy city councilman Michael LoPorto, turning the tables on special prosecutor Trey Smith, alleging that Smith presented forged signatures contained in the supporting affidavits of at least two witnesses.”
More Bad News for Voter ID Opponents: More Polling Data
73% of America disagrees with Eric Holder. Story on new polling data. Worse news for voter fraud deniers – only 7% of America agrees with voter fraud deniers: “A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 64 percent of Likely U.S. Voters rate voter fraud at least a somewhat serious problem in the United States today, and just 24 percent disagree. This includes 35 percent who consider it a Very Serious problem and seven percent who view it as Not At All Serious. Twelve percent are undecided.”
Veritas Redux
More DC ballots offered with NO ID required – and NO signature: “Ben Jealous”, “Bill Maher”, “David Brock”.
And a cameo appearance by Saul Alinsky, from whom Veritas borrows “Rule 4”: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. Like Eric Holder’s DOJ, David Brock’s Media Matters offices require visitors to show photo ID.
Video below or watch via YouTube HERE.