Fox 19: “The board of elections has identified 5 women, who not only voted early by mail, but then cast a ballot in person.”
“New voters don’t mind Voter ID law”
Wisconsin’s WBAY:
Voters we talked with during Tuesday’s primaries said they didn’t mind being asked for IDs, but some did say the law isn’t needed.
“We have some voter fraud everywhere, and there’s allegations of massive voter fraud. Don’t know whether that’s true or not, but it takes all of that out of the equation so people can move on and say OK, we had an election,” Niels Jensen said.
“I don’t think Wisconsin is known for voter fraud, and I feel like in this community people pretty much know each other,” Myrna Dickinson said.
“I love it,” Todd Kimball said. “I love it. I think that it clarifies everything and it makes the process more clean.”
“I had it today, so I don’t see any issue with next year not having it,” Jan Priewe said.
Justice sues Bobby Jindal’s administration
Bloomberg. This is what I predicted months ago at the D.C. Examiner.
Arkansas voter fraud investigation of Harlem Globetrotter’s election
Fox News Memphis: “Arkansas voters in Crittenden County are taking to the polls Tuesday to fill a State House seat vacated by a former Harlem Globetrotter who was convicted of theft. A state police investigation is also underway into allegations of voter fraud. . . . Grant’s message said, ‘Are you running for State Representative? If you are I got something you probably would need, I’ve got some absentee ballots over here in West Memphis in Wards 4 and 5.’ Felker lost the Primary by 8 votes.”
Military voting report shows decreased participation in 2010
The Washington Times today details the results of a report produced by AMVETS and the Chapman Law School and released by the Military Voting Protection Project. It details some unfortunate statistics about military voting in 2010. I’ve written extensively at Pajamas Media about the bungling by the administration in the 2010 elections. Now data back it up:
“The Justice Department’s program for handling military absentee ballots suffers from major flaws, and a survey revealed low turnout among military voters in the 2010 mid-term elections, according to a report by a private group made public on Tuesday.”
Particularly disturbing:
“In some cases, the department recommended that a state prevent troops from voting. In Maryland, the Justice Department told the state to send ballots for federal elections only because ballots for local elections would have violated the 45-day deadline, the report says. ‘They were basically telling Maryland that they could disenfranchise these voters’ rights to vote in local elections,’ Mr. von Spakovsky said.”
This issue will be discussed at a forum next week at the Heritage Foundation.
Hispanic group wants Weiner’s NY district gone
Link. The diverse congressional district that Anthony Weiner vacated in the midst of a sexting scandal has become the latest battleground for a Latino organization that is laboring to increase the political clout of Hispanics in Congress…
RedState: “Wisconsin Gutter War expands”
Link – RedState reports on the latest escalation of hostilities over just about everything… this time redistricting at Ground Zero (Wisconsin).
Money quote: “Bottom line: we have an extremely motivated state Republican party out there in Wisconsin; one with a definite sense of determination and an uncritical willingness to get on with business and not particularly care what people say about it.”
And the Daily Kos perspective. Link