“Elections Director Paul Adams said he received complaints that at least eight Amherst Manor residents had been coerced or swayed to vote a particular way regarding Amherst issues on the primary ballot.”   The Morning Journal.

Will a judge step aside in a case involving election fraud by two former Democratic party leaders?  The Detroit Free Press has more.

The Tucson Sentinel.

Proponents “say that the New Jersey’s electronic voter databases can rapidly verify voters’ information.”  (for new registrants?).   Christie is opposed.  The ACLU has sued in Middlesex County, according to this article, seeking a remedy of same day registration.

The South Carolina House has approved a voter ID bill that reflects a compromise from a conference committee last week.  The law will resemble the original House version and will offer free identification cards to anyone who cannot afford it. Nevertheless, it is the second coming of “Jim Crow” to some.  South Carolina will be smart to send this bill straight to the United States District Court in D.C. for approval, not to the DOJ.  If it is sent to DOJ, the law may not ever take effect.

Albany Times Union. 

“The voter fraud was first publicly disclosed by the Times Union in September 2009. The allegations center on dozens of absentee ballots for the Working Families Party line that were forged to secure votes for several Democratic candidates. . . . The victims include numerous residents of city housing projects, all registered to vote on the Working Families Party line, who had absentee ballots filed in their name that included forged information, including signatures and the excuses for why they could not vote in person.”

The New York Times has an editorial today on voter fraud.  This one has it all – data from vote fraud deniers, the term “anti-immigrant,” Kobach bashing – all in one place.   Click and get your fill.  If all the alarmism in the piece is accurate, then the courts will likely strike down the laws the piece complains about.  Of course the same alarmism was liberally thrown about regarding Georgia’s voter ID law from 2005 through 2009 until it was upheld by every court that examined it.

UPI

Judge says NY village can’t appeal; it’s appealing

This is a good thing. Paper ballots counted by humans are the form of ballots most suspectable to human error and manipulation.