Voter ID “a huge success” in Rhode Island



Ralph Mollis, Rhode Island Secretary of State, writes:


 


The Woonsocket Special Primary was the first election of 2014 to require a valid Photo ID in order to vote, and I am proud to announce it was a huge success!


 


As we insured when drafting this law, no registered voter who wanted to vote in the primary was turned away at the polls.  Everyone was given the opportunity to vote on primary day…


 


Voter ID has been in full effect since 2012 and Rhode Island’s law has been referred to as a national model…   The concern that fraud could occur at the polls undermines the public’s faith in the outcomes of our elections.  The legislation we drafted in 2012 and was subsequently passed and signed into law addressed that concern, prevents potential fraud, and restores the faith in our election system. 


Will DOJ Prosecute Poll Worker Who Voted More Than Once for Obama in 2012?

Lex has this story about a poll worker who voted twice.  Others who voted up to six times in Ohio still have not faced federal charges for their crimes of voting for President more than once. 

The big take away from the story is the amount of voter fraud in only one county in Ohio:

“The Hamilton County Board of Elections spent the last year investigating voter fraud allegations in the 2012 election.


The result: Six people were charged and another 42 referred to the secretary of state, who oversees voting for Ohio.”

Voter fraud deniers always like to move the goalposts – saying voter fraud isn’t “pervasive or widespread” (leaving those terms undefined).  But six charges in one county in one election with 42 other referrals sounds like a serious problem, no matter what the deniers claim.

“New Voter ID laws embraced”


In Mississippi, one of 34 states now requiring photo voter ID: 

“The chairman of the DeSoto County Election Commission says there’s been a general acceptance in the county that photo identification will be needed at the polls, starting with the June primary election… The vast majority of state voters already have an accepted ID card.  However, the state is now offering free cards to people who do not have a government-issued identification.”

“Don’t Celebrate Eric Holder’s Departure”

“Pam Karlan, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General overseeing American elections will still be an unrepentant liar, yet praised by all her fellow travelers.

United States Attorneys will still instruct assistant United States Attorneys to disregard sentencing standards and various federal laws when charging drug defendants.


It will all continue.


Worse, Obama could appoint an acting Attorney General under the Vacancy Reform Act that need not obtain Senate confirmation. Just imagine that circus – an unconfirmed Attorney General for a year, unaccountable to anyone except the West Wing.


So keep the champagne corked. Don’t toast Holder’s pending departure. As the Who sang, ‘meet the new boss, same as the old boss.'”

PJ Media.

With Voter ID implementation, Texas sees marked turnout increase in similar constitutional elections

The latest data from Texas about the state’s experience with its first election held after its new photographic voter identification law became effective show that this requirement has done nothing to suppress voter turnout throughout the state. In fact, turnout in last year’s constitutional elections in Texas yielded some of the highest turnout numbers in the past decade for similar type elections. More at Heritage.

“Eric Holder to states: You all should really think about restoring voting for felons”

Hot Air hits it on the head.  


I have rather a lot of difficulty, however, taking it on good faith from the guy who has made it his personal mission to flat-out persecute states who have the audacity to try and deter the many well-documented incidents of voter fraud with simple voter-ID requirements, what the Supreme Court says be damned (and don’t even get me started on the hypocrisy of his ostensible minority-boosting goals when his own department has also made tamping down on school choice another of their major action-items).

And we want to give Holder even more power under the Voting Rights Amendment?

Another Ohio Poll Worker Faces Voter Fraud Charges for Double Voting


Two votes cast and counted

“A Hamilton County poll worker voted twice in the 2013 mayoral election, prompting the county elections board Tuesday to refer her to the prosecutor’s office.  Casting two votes is a felony under Ohio law.


 


Ellen Duncan, 54, who had been a poll worker for about 15 years, voted absentee and then in person while working at the Urban League on Reading Road, according to Board of Elections paperwork.  Both of her votes were counted.”



Hamilton County poll worker Melowese Richardson was convicted last year of multiple counts of voter fraud and sentenced to five years in prison.