I will be speaking Thursday at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Charleston, S.C.  Speaker list and sign up here.  I will be signing copies of Injustice at the event.

The story is here.  I am not so sure Governor Lynch will maintain his previous veto mantra  that “there is no voter fraud problem in New Hampshire.” And whatever approach the Governor decides to take in the coming session, the citizens of New Hampshire should be aware that the Republicans in the legislature have the votes to override any veto. 

According to this article, Secretary of State Gardner has no real objections to the voter ID requirement but only to the provisional ballot process that might require a bit extra work on the part of his election officials and require voters to provide that information.  I bet New Hampshire election offiicals wish their poll workers had not simply repeated the mantra drilled into them… “Oh, no, no photo ID is required, go ahead and vote” instead of simply asking for an ID to confirm the identify of the voter.  Boy, oh Boy, being politically correct has its consequences.

Gardner should realize that the ease of this voter impersonation scandal is humiliating to the hard working election officials in New Hampshire.  A few extra steps and requests for identification by poll workers would have avoided this type of theft of identify of deceased voters.  The bottom line is that this incident will shock the conscience of most objective observers and cause a lack of confidence in the electoral process.  Concerns about additional provisional ballot procedures should not be the impediment to the proper verification of voters before votes are counted.

Republicans hope the new map, drawn according to population growth and shifts as reflected in the 2010 U.S. Census, will increase their current 64-34-1 majority.  The bill now goes to the Republican-led Senate, which considers their state House, state Senate and congressional redistricting maps on Friday

full story here.

The Union Leader reports: The New Hampshire Attorney General has launched a comprehensive review of state voting procedures, after people obtained ballots of dead voters during the presidential primary on Tuesday.

…Associate Attorney General Richard Head said his office became aware of the effort on Election Day and immediately began an investigation. “That investigation is ongoing,” he said. “Based on the information received on Election Day and the information on the video, we are undertaking a comprehensive review of voting procedures with the Secretary of State.”

…Secretary of State Gardner said a fraudulent voter could check newspaper obituaries for recently dead people, and then go to a city or town to see if the name is on voting lists. The bogus voter could then go to a polling place and likely get a ballot, he said. Gardner said he’s open to changes in state voting procedures, but not the legislation that Lynch vetoed. Its provisional voting procedure would have been difficult to administer, Gardner said.

“I’m OK with photo ID, but I would like a way to do it without sending people home from the voting place without having cast a ballot,” Gardner said.

Republican House Speaker William O’Brien said Democrats have consistently maintained that no voter fraud takes place in New Hampshire. Now it’s been shown that flaws exist in the system.
“I’m afraid — I hope it doesn’t come down to this — it challenges our first-in-the-nation primary position,” O’Brien said.

He said Republicans are open to compromise as long as the New Hampshire voting pool is not diluted by non-resident or fictitious voters.

On his first day as president, Gingrich said he will instruct the Department of Justice to drop any challenge of the Voter ID bill in South Carolina.

full story at link.

Another story on the South Carolina DMV analysis showing hundreds of votes cast in the name of deceased individuals.

Marci Andino, executive director of the state Election Commission, said the DMV analysis and claims, if true, would mean the election process has been compromised by illegal activity.

“It would mean every person’s legal vote has been diluted by illegal ones. Such a reality would strike a blow to the public’s confidence in the election process,” Andino said in a statement.

Attorney General Alan Wilson referred the DMV’s allegations to state investigators. Wilson said in a statement that the number of people cited in the analysis “is an alarming number and clearly necessitates an investigation into criminal activity.”

Speaking today at the Tampa Club at noon about Injustice.  Details here.

Daily Caller has this shocking story which should impact the Voter ID litigation. 

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – The director of South Carolina’s Department of Motor Vehicles has told the State Law Enforcement Division that more than 900 people who were recorded as having voted were actually dead.

DMV Director Kevin Shwedo told legislators about the issue Wednesday as the U.S. Justice Department questions a new state law requiring people to show photographic identification when they vote in person.

Shwedo analyzed more than 230,000 records on people without state driver’s licenses or identification cards. He found state Election Commission data included 30,000 dead people. He said the records involving 900 dead people were turned over to SLED to investigate.

Shwedo said the records also included more than 91,000 people who now appear to live in other states.

Link Here.

Watch this video.  James O’Keefe has forever changed the Voter ID debate.

And the voter fraud deniers shift into overdrive to contain the carnage.