The New York Times covers how True the Vote helped get a polling place at Prairie View A and M.
“Students at Prairie View A&M University, the state’s oldest historically black public college, have fought for decades to persuade Waller County to allow a polling place on the campus. Now an unlikely coalition has succeeded, by cobbling together a compromise in time for the November election.”
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Huff Post: Late to the Party on Voter Fraud
The Huffington Post has this piece quoting the Texas Attorney General as saying that without voter fraud, Obamacare wouldn’t exist.
They’re a bit late to the party. Hans von Spakovsky and John Fund documented this in their book Who’s Counting over a year ago.
DOJ to Sue North Carolina Over Voter ID
Once upon a time the Justice Department didn’t leak the news of a forthcoming Section 2 lawsuit before the Voting Section filed one. Washington Post covers the leaks of the forthcoming Voter ID lawsuit in North Carolina.
“Tea Party Group Details Harassment, Seeks Disclosure Exemption”
A tea party political group has provided the Federal Election Commission
with a detailed list of what it feels are threats, harassment, or
reprisals from government officials or private parties, and seeks an
exemption from filing disclosure reports.
More.
Texas Secretary of State on Voter ID educational tour
With election day just weeks away, Texas Secretary of State John Steen
has been making the rounds of county elections offices, ensuring
everyone is on the same page when it comes to voter ID rules.
Link to full story
Observer Reports “again point to failure” in second Hattiesburg mayoral election
Is another election challenge in the offing?
From Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann’s statement regarding Hattiesburg Municipal Election:
“Unfortunately, our initial Agency Observer Reports again point to failure to follow the training provided after the polls were closed. These issues include failure to properly seal the ballot box and failure to properly mark absentee ballots. Further, there has also been reported a case of voter impersonation for Hattiesburg Municipal voter Marvin Allen. We are compiling all Observer Reports and will release those to the Election Commission and the public.”
“Motion Filed Against DOJ Witch Hunt on Texas Voter ID”
Katie Pavlich at Town Hall.
Dennis Miller
“Current electoral system discourages military from participating”
Wendy Davis, potential candidate for Governor, testified in court against State of Texas saying “Voter ID was racially motivated”
Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator who will likely run for Governor, is an opponent of voter ID and eager to call her own state racist and discriminatory. According to this article, she was actually a witness against the law and testified that support for the law in Texas was racially motivated. Politically speaking, an overwhelming 73% of Texan Independent voters support voter ID.
State Sen. Wendy Davis,
D-Fort Worth, testified that her amendments to make the bill more
similar to a voter ID law implemented in Indiana, which has been upheld
by the Supreme Court, were dismissed outright. Davis said Texas Democrats were steamrolled. “The voter ID bill, we all believed, was a racially motivated bill,” she said.