Eric Shawn reports at Foxnewsinsider.com with the latest on the Indiana fake signature petition scandal.

Perhaps the most meaningful conversations though were with the voters who told us that their names and signatures were faked and that they never signed the petitions.

Charity Rorie, a mother of four, sat at her kitchen table with the petitions and told us that her name and signature, and those of her husband, were forgeries. She told us how disturbing it was to see the evidence on the Obama petition. She said that not only did she never sign the petition, but was alarmed that their personal information, such as birthdays and address, were listed.

Vote fraud deniers can speak with Charity Rorie and the other victims whose names and personal information as registered voters were fraudulently and wrongfully added to a petition placing Obama on the ballot. Hmmm. While not in the act of casting a ballot, this would be an example of voter impersonation.

Article and video found @ Newsmax.com

Combating voter fraud shouldn’t be a partisan issue, Fund said, noting that Rhode Island’s Democratic-controlled Legislature also had to pass an ID law.

“Rhode Island last summer passed a photo ID law,” Fund said. “And the reason was there was compelling evidence that, in Democratic primaries and in some general elections, reform candidates were having the election stolen out from under them by machine hacks who were rigging the ballot — especially with absentee votes — and they were preventing legitimate candidates from replacing machine candidates.”

The chief sponsor of the bill, Fund said, was the only black senator in the state.

“What we have to have is not only a campaign against voter fraud, but we also have to have a set of laws that are clear, understandable, transparent, and not subject to vague interpretations of the courts,” Fund said. “If we don’t do something to make sure that voter fraud is contained and voting incompetence by election officials is minimized, we’re going to have a situation just like Florida 2000 — except it could be across the whole country.”

Jack Kelly with the Pittsburg Post-Gazette opines on voter fraud and the need for photo ID. 

Former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, who is black, said vote fraud is rampant in African-American districts like his in Alabama.

“The most aggressive contemporary voter suppression in the African-American community is the wholesale manufacture of ballots at the polls and absentee, in parts of the Black Belt,” Mr. Davis said. “Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too mentally impaired to function cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights.”

Laws requiring photo IDs suppress minority voting, Democrats charge. The facts say otherwise. In Georgia, black voter turnout for the midterm election in 2006 was 42.9 percent. After Georgia passed photo ID, black turnout in the 2010 midterm rose to 50.4 percent. Black turnout also rose in Indiana and Mississippi after photo IDs were required.

“Concerns about voter identification laws affecting turnout are much ado about nothing,” concluded researchers at the universities of Delaware and Nebraska after examining election data from 2000 through 2006.

Link at BigGovernment.com.

“Judicial Watch has done it again. It has produced–following a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ)–documents that suggest extensive coordination and communications between the DOJ Voting Section and former ACORN affiliate Project Vote.

The esteemed Thomas Sowell, in his latest syndicated column, lists his suggested book gifts for the holidays.  Like Sean Hannity’s list, Sowell includes Injustice.

Link here.

“This comparison insults the heroic work of so many who helped end the injustices of Jim Crow. It is also quite ironic to hear Holder refer to the fire hoses, bullets, bombs, and billy clubs that voters had to confront in the 1960s, given that his Justice Department dismissed the voter-intimidation lawsuit it had won by default against the New Black Panther Party and its billy-club-wielding thugs, who menaced voters in Philadelphia in 2008. His Justice Department has made it clear that it does not believe in the race-neutral enforcement of our voting-rights laws. . . .

Holder’s foolish imaginings about voter-ID requirements should come as no surprise. After all, the government-transparency group Judicial Watch has discovered through a Freedom of Information Act request that the White House and the Justice Department have been consulting with — and getting recommendations on new hires from — current and former officials of ACORN, dozens of whose employees have been convicted of voter fraud.”

I will be speaking at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference  in Charleston, South Carolina which runs from January 18-21.

Adryana Boyne of VOCES Action offers a defense of Voter ID in Spanish (link here):

Estimados ciudadanos de habla hispana. La comunidad de los Estados Unidos siempre habla de la honestidad y de la integridad como valores importante para su gente. Sin embargo a el Procurador General o Secretario de Justicia de los Estados Unidos Eric Holder eso le tiene sin cuidado. Será acaso para desviar la atención de sus malos manejos en situaciones como la de “Rápido y furioso”? Será que está haciendo campaña para el Presiente Obama? Ahora quiere intervenir en anular una legislación que es apropiada y buena para nuestro estado?

Here is the motion for default filed yesterday against the Justice Department by Nueces County, Texas.  It says DOJ missed the deadline to file an answer in the redistricting case. 

Here is the video. Somehow the host became disoriented in the middle of the segment.  Footage from True the Vote’s rally in Austin to greet Eric Holder is also in the segment.