“Newtown Massacre Spurs Schools to Stop Serving as Voting Sites”

Doug Lewis, executive director of The Election Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization representing the nation’s election officials, encouraged Obama’s commission to address the matter as part of its goal of reducing long lines.  “Any consideration of forcing the election process to abandon schools as voting locations is likely to have one of the most dramatic impacts on the cost and conduct of elections in the U.S.,” he said in written testimony.
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“The IRS Scandal, Day 238″

The media plays defense for the Obama Administration for almost a year attacking the messengers exposing the truth, instead of digging for facts and reporting the truth to the American people. Just think of all those juicy stories that could have been on the front pages if the media actually spent time investigating and reporting on the story.  Link to Paul Caron @ TaxProfBlog who has documented the unrelenting attacks on the messengers.”

NC: Democrats and liberal advocacy groups appeal big loss over congressional redistricting to state Supreme Court; seek to delay the primary election

The NewsObserver reports on the Democrats appeal to the state Supreme Court as they desperately try to stop North Carolina Republicans from cementing the gains made from the last 2 years.  If the redistricting plans are left unchanged, the current balance of power may remain in place for decades.   

On Monday, state Supreme Court justices are scheduled to hear arguments in Raleigh about the legislative and congressional districts adopted by the Republican legislature two years ago. The districts are intended to be used through the 2020 elections.

At issue is a unanimous ruling in July by a three-member panel of N.C. Superior Court judges. The panel validated the districts, rejecting an argument by Democratic voters and civil rights organizations that some of the districts were racially gerrymandered to weaken the influence of black voters.  In their appeal of that decision, the NAACP, Democrats and voter-rights organizations have raised questions about the panel’s interpretation of the U.S. Constitution and the North Carolina Constitution.

…Though the new maps were immediately challenged after they were drawn in 2011, the districts were used in the 2012 elections and have been shown to favor Republicans.

The GOP expanded its majority in the state legislature in the 2012 elections. In the House, Republicans picked up nine seats and now dominate Democrats 77-43. The Senate added two Republican members, and the GOP holds a 33-17 advantage.

Republicans also were successful in expanding their majority at the congressional level, taking nine of the state’s 13 U.S. House seats while winning 51 percent of the congressional vote.

Republican leaders contend they followed the law when developing the new districts, and they cite sections of the three-judge panel’s ruling to underscore their contentions.

Study: Only 10% of criminals vote for Republicans

Breitbart reports that a … study found that felons registered Democratic over Republican by a six-to-one margin in some states, including New York, where 61.5% are Democrats and only 9% GOP. Another fact discovered was that 73% of the felons who would vote would vote Democrat.  Three states where the state government has notified convicts that they can vote are New York, New Mexico, and North Carolina.  In addition to the huge disparity in party affiliation in New York, New Mexico showed 54.6% of convicts as Democrats, with 10.2% Republican, and North Carolina had 54.6% of felons as Democrats with 10.2 GOP.

“Gov’t corruption, voter fraud a major concern for Americans”

Chris Farrell, a spokesman for Judicial Watch, says the poll shows a great public concern about voter fraud.

“There’s also great concern over the ability of the country to have honest elections,“ he shares. “Three quarters of adults say that voter fraud is a huge problem in the United States. And so there is great concern over the ability of our country to have honest, clean, fair elections.”

…“As long as you have people like Pamela Karlan running the voting rights section at the Department of Justice, you’ll keep getting election results to allow the left to continue what they do.”