Nevada Redistricting hearings being held

In Nevada, redistricting positions laid out by the parties in whether Hispanic majority districts can or should be created.  Hearings are being held.

“Attorney Mark Hutchison, representing the Republican Party, argued that the Hispanic community
in central Las Vegas should form the basis for one of the four
congressional districts in any new redistricting plan.

Attorney Marc Elias, representing Democrats, argued that while communities of interest
should be considered, there is no requirement in the federal Voting
Rights Act that a predominantly Hispanic district be created.”

and more:

Attorney Daniel Stewart, representing Clark County resident Daniel
Garza, who opposed SB497, said the congressional districts in the bill
inappropriately “fractured” the Las Vegas Hispanic community into three
different districts to create three safe Democrat congressional seats.

 “This is a perfect example of what I think the masters shouldn’t do,” he said.

But Elias warned that any effort to focus exclusively on creating one
Hispanic congressional district could lead to “racial gerrymandering”
which would put any plan approved by Russell at risk for a federal court
challenge. It is not possible to draw a congressional district in Las
Vegas that would have a majority of eligible Hispanic voters, he said.

Injustice Review

If you haven’t read Injustice yet (free chapter here) there is a good review by Academy Award nominated screenwriter (so fun to say) Roger Simon here.  He calls Injustice “Maybe the most important American publication this year.”  A snippet:


That out of the way, let me turn to why I believe Injustice may be the most important American publication this year. Simply, the book details quite specifically how the U.S. DOJ has been corrupted, hijacked might be a more appropriate term, by so-called “progressive” ideology to the extent that it no longer functions remotely as a genuine Department of Justice, but as something out of Orwell’s Animal Farm or Ugo Betti’s Corruption in the Palace of Justice. Just as in Orwell, justice is selectively and unequally applied and, as in Betti, the fish rots from the top.


Adams begins with the Ike Brown case (“Payback in Mississippi”), takes us through the astoundingly ideological hiring practices — approaching left-wing purity tests — of the Obama/Holder DOJ (“Personnel is Policy”) and on to his own involvement, and eventual whistle-blowing, as the DOJ declined to enforce its judgment on the execrable racists of the New Black Panther Party (“Anatomy of a Scandal”). To the Obama/Holder DOJ, only whites, never blacks, could be racists. Past grievances always outweighed present reality.

Deborah Simmons: “Democracy worthy of voter ID to prevent fraud”

Washington Times here:


Opponents should look no further than D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray, who recently learned a textbook lesson on how not to look stupid.


Mr. Gray appointed a woman named Andrea Pringle as his deputy chief of staff on Aug. 30, but a week later she resigned after news broke that she was a Maryland resident for more than a year but had voted in the District in September 2010.


The voter fraud, uncovered by Dorothy Brizill and exposed on her website D.C. Watch, occurred because D.C. voters do not have to produce identification to cast a vote.


Nothing. Nada. Zilch.


All you have to do is give a name and address and you are handed the requisite voting materials.


But are D.C. officials combating voter fraud? No.

NYT “Myth of Voter Fraud” meet “Myth of Fair Elections”

According to the New York Times, parents voting for a student child away at college, signatures on absentee ballots that don’t match the signature on file, ineligible voters that register to vote and voting are examples of “honest mistakes” and do not qualify as voter fraud.  Tell that to the candidate that loses by 10 votes because 20 non-eligible felons, non-citizens, and dead people vote in an election.  Not a lot until you are on the losing end and the will of the people is thwarted.  Voting illegally for another person disenfranchises legitimate votes and is a felony, punishable by prison.  Of course, prosecutors need to understand the importance of such disenfranchisement.  However, if the New York Times had its way, such impersonation voting would be a common practice explainable by “honest mistakes.”

Of course, the New York Times also believes that the verification of the citizenship of voters is a suppression tool of the Republicans.  It is a current requirement that only citizens vote, but the left apparently doesn’t want to actually check databases to see if that the voter is a citizen because it might suppress those not qualified to vote from voting.  You see if there are a lot of “honest mistakes,” it could turn a close election in a fraudulent victory.  And we wonder why election law litigation has mushroomed since 2000.  The myth of voter fraud becomes the myth of fair elections.