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Texas voter ID "pitching and rolling in waves of court action"

tl_atlas@hotmail.com (Tabella) — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:33:07 GMT

Before and after the passage of Senate Bill 14 by the Texas Legislature in 2011, the new voter identification legislation was labeled discriminatory by its opponents (Democrats) but a necessary tool to prevent fraud by its supporters (Republicans). Now, nearly a year since Gov. Rick Perry put his signature on the "voter I.D." law, it is still pitching and rolling in waves of court action.

full story here.

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In signing voter ID bill, Mississippi Governor wants "voting process to be fair and secure"

tl_atlas@hotmail.com (Tabella) — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:17:35 GMT

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed legislation today requiring voters to show photo identification at all elections.The constitutional amendment was approved by 62% of Mississippi voters last year. Much like in Tennessee, those without the proper ID can apply for a free voter ID.

“This legislation is about protecting the integrity of Mississippi’s elections,” Bryant said. “This legislation is a direct result of the majority of Mississippians expressing their desire for a constitutional voter ID requirement in the state. We want everyone to participate in the election process, and we want that process to be fair and secure.” ...

New Mexico "City in Chaos" over voter fraud allegations

tl_atlas@hotmail.com (Tabella) — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:12:00 GMT

The dusty border town minutes from El Paso, Texas, has been called "a city in chaos" by the state auditor, because a slew of public officials are facing felony charges that they ran City Hall like a personal piggy bank, tried to steal an election in order to remain in power and ruled the 14,000 residents through intimidation and fear. link ...

"Florida non-citizen voter list will be vetted against Homeland Security database"

tl_atlas@hotmail.com (Tabella) — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:53:40 GMT

Palm Beach Post reports that State highway officials soon will begin vetting a list of 180,000 potential non-citizens who are registered to vote against a U.S. Department of Homeland Security database. This could resolve a sticking point between the state Division of Elections and elections supervisors for the state's 67 counties over the state's demand that supervisors start removing some of the names from their voter rolls. ...

Mass. towns want voter ID to be required on local level

tl_atlas@hotmail.com (Tabella) — Fri, 18 May 2012 09:44:00 GMT

expect tyranny from the state deflating this issue.....and quick. Voter ID is just unacceptable.

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Victim of Racial Discrmination in Voting Speaks Out

adams@electionlawcenter.com (Christian Adams) — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:49:26 GMT

The plaintiff in a Section 2 Voting Rights Act case alleging intentional racial discrimination, as well as racially discriminatory results, makes a speech at a rotary club to talk about the lawsuit. The complaint alleges the plaintiff was not allowed to register to vote because of his race, and that the law preventing him from registering to vote had a specific racially discriminatory intent to prevent his race from voting. More here.

The plaintiff "was asked whether he has received any threats since filing the complaint. . . .
'However, over the years, I’ve been invited to leave many, many, many times, and I’ve been called a lot of things too,' he quipped." ...

"Obama Team Courts Trouble"

adams@electionlawcenter.com (Christian Adams) — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:39:34 GMT

Link to CFIF story.

". . . And now Department officials can’t seem to make up their minds as to whether the official’s prejudiced comment was a purely private matter and thus beyond their purview or, on the contrary, defensible in its substance because of an (isolated) incident at a college basketball game. . . .

Despite the administration’s arguments to the contrary, the court insisted that voter identification is a reasonable means of ensuring “the state’s legitimate interest in assessing the eligibility and qualifications of voters.”

Indeed, most Americans would find it odd, and disturbing, to know that the Justice Department seems to reject that interest entirely. . . .

This is somewhat akin to what happened when the Justice Department overruled the black majority of Kinston, N.C., by overriding a referendum through which that black majority hoped to enact a nonpartisan system for local elections. The Obamites at Justice effectively told those black citizens that they didn’t know their own interests, which could not be well served unless they could identify and vote for candidates publicly identified as Democrats. After two years of this nonsense, the Justice Department backed down in February – tacitly being forced to accept what it has yet to understand in the EEOC case, which is that heavy-handed attempts to help black citizens can actually harm those citizens, while so grossly violating established legal principles that courts are sure eventually to overturn the Obamites’ positions."

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Federal Judge strikes down more Montana campaign finance regulations

tl_atlas@hotmail.com (Tabella) — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:11:00 GMT

And the Supreme Court may smack the Montana Supreme Court down as well.

Conservative groups won another victory Wednesday in an ongoing challenge to Montana campaign finance laws when a federal judge agreed that several regulations unconstitutionally restrict free speech.

U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell mostly sided with Virginia-based American Tradition Partnership in its federal case attacking several aspects of state campaign finance laws. The judge determined that state laws requiring attack ads to disclose the targeted candidates' voting record and ban knowingly false statements in such ads are unconstitutionally vague.

The ruling largely matched a preliminary determination made earlier by the judge. But Lovell went a step further and also decided that Montana cannot ban corporations from making contributions to political committees that make independent expenditures.

full story

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Michigan audit shows dead people, prisoners cast 1500 votes

tl_atlas@hotmail.com (Tabella) — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:55:00 GMT

link.
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Mississippi Governor to sign voter ID bill today

tl_atlas@hotmail.com (Tabella) — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:01:00 GMT

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant plans to sign the voter ID bill at a ceremony scheduled today. link

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University of North Carolina Chancellor: "administrators acted inappropriately" in voter fraud scandal

tl_atlas@hotmail.com (Tabella) — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:32:00 GMT

In an statement on the embarrassing behavior by University of North Carolina administrators who were filmed endorsing student double registration, voting and fraud, the UNC Chancellor admitted it was "inappropriate behavior." Conspiring to dilute the votes of legal voters is serious misconduct. excerpt below:

O'Keefe's team went undercover at UNC secretly taping at least two UNC officials, while O'Keefe's operative discussed a voter fraud scheme.

One university staffer laughed and at one point seemed to even encourage the plan.

In a statement to ABC11, UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp wrote, "While the scenarios described in the video were false, some of our administrators responded inappropriately, and we are taking disciplinary action against those who used poor judgment in their approach to these student imposters."

full story at link.

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Breaking Exclusive: Massive Purge of Dead Florida Voters

adams@electionlawcenter.com (Christian Adams) — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:21:57 GMT

I've learned that the Florida Secretary of State is ready to announce the massive discovery and purge of tens of thousands of dead voters on the Florida rolls. Sources tell me that over 50,000 dead voters have been discovered and purged from the voter rolls in Florida.

Why wouldn't this massive number of dead voters been discovered previously? Because Florida was not using all of the available information about who has died across the nation. Once Florida began to use the best available information on who has died, the better information revealed over 50,000 dead voters on the rolls.

Here's the important part: in most parts of the country, election officials are not using all the possible available information available about who has died across the country. Florida started using a better dead list, and discovered the methods used by most election officials in the nation still kept 50,000 dead voters on the rolls.

Stay tuned to ELC for more information. ...

DOJ Role in Black Panthers and Voter ID on O'Reilly Factor

adams@electionlawcenter.com (Christian Adams) — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:53:58 GMT

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Latest O'keefe video "Less Enforcement of Voter Fraud Laws than Speeding"

adams@electionlawcenter.com (Christian Adams) — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:45:00 GMT

Another must see James O'Keefe video. Among the content:

* North Carolina election judge saying he wants to "run over" Scalia and Thomas and can't support the NC Constitution.

* UNC's officials laughing at voter fraud crimes and denying voter fraud occurs. UNC Dean Blackburn encouraging Operation Chaos.

* The ability to vote in North Carolina under a false name.

* The need for Voter ID in North Carolina.

* People who claimed they were noncitizens participating in North Carolina elections. Either they lied to get out of jury duty, or they voted illegally.

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Latest Ballot Access Controversy in SC: Dueling

adams@electionlawcenter.com (Christian Adams) — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:44:38 GMT

The ongoing fight to get on the South Carolina ballot enters a new chapter: claims that State Senator Jake Knotts is ineligible to hold office because he has issued a challenge to a duel, an act which disqualifies him from holding office under the South Carolina Constitution.

The South Carolina Supreme Court recently took a very strict view of statutory language for ballot eligibility, and threw 1 in 5 candidates off the South Carolina ballot. If they continue to take a strict view of the language of the state constitution, and Katrina Shealy subpoenas witnesses to Knott's challenge to a duel, this could get very interesting.

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League of Women Voters Priorities

adams@electionlawcenter.com (Christian Adams) — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:23:48 GMT

Far afield from voting. Some issues the League of Women Voters have taken on:

"pre-abortion ultrasound"

"Abortion"

"Access to Women's Health Care"

"regionally balanced transportation systems"

"increase the use of public transportation"

"legal authority to control the use of land. Stronger state control"

"Wetlands"

"Endeavor to prevent mental illness"

"Adoption of the California Standards for low emission vehicles"

"A more progressive state income tax, with an increase in the number of income brackets and a raise in the rates in higher brackets"

"In divorce fault should not enter into the court's division of marital property. "

"smoking in public should be limited to designated areas"

"the state has a role to play in child care . . . [and the government should provide some] form of financial assistance to increase the affordability and availability of child care."

You've come a long way baby. ...

North Carolina James O'Keefe Blockbuster - NonCitizens Voting

adams@electionlawcenter.com (Christian Adams) — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:33:42 GMT

James O'Keefe has done it again, this time in North Carolina.

"One part demonstrates that non-U.S. citizens living in the United States can register to vote by falsely claiming to be citizens — and have done so — and that those illegally registered voters can obtain ballots at polling places.

Public records also show that one of those individuals cast votes in North Carolina in 2008 and 2010.

That part of the video focuses on two North Carolinians who submitted jury duty forms asking to be excused on the grounds that they are not citizens. But their voter registrations appear valid, and state election workers offered their ballots to actors shown in the film.

Zbigniew Gorzkowski is registered to vote in North Carolina, the film shows. Project Veritas acquired his September 21, 2007 voter registration form and provided a copy to TheDC.

But data provided by the Durham County, N.C., court clerk shows that during the past two years — long after he registered to vote — he was excused from jury duty by stating that he is not a U.S. citizen.

According to voting history records presented in the video, Gorzkowski voted in 2008 and 2010. . . .

That part shows an actor, posing as fictitious UNC student “Jason Rainier,” discussing the election fraud scheme with Assistant Dean of Students for Community Relations Dean Blackburn, and with LGBTQ Center Director Terri Phoenix.

Neither objected to the young man’s voter-fraud activity, which he termed “Operation Chaos.”

“I was registered to vote in Ohio and I still am,” the actor told Phoenix, with a hidden camera rolling, “and I registered to vote here [in North Carolina] because there was a voter drive and I thought it was my civic duty to register to vote. It’s the right thing to do and all that. And I voted absentee ballot in the Ohio primary and I actually voted here as well — early voted.”

“Oh, did you?” Phoenix asked.

“Yeah,” the fictional Rainier reaffirmed.

“And hopefully no one will figure that out,” she replied, laughing out loud.

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"How Many Non-Citizens Will Vote in Florida?"

adams@electionlawcenter.com (Christian Adams) — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:53:00 GMT

John Hinderaker at Powerline. ...

"DOJ Worker Reveals Bias"

adams@electionlawcenter.com (Christian Adams) — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:16:30 GMT

Clarion Ledger opinion page in Jackson MS. ...

More on New Book by von Spakovsky and Fund

adams@electionlawcenter.com (Christian Adams) — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:25:00 GMT

At PJ Rule of Law. "Who’s Counting promises to pick up on some of the fine work von Spakovsky has done here at PJ Media, cataloging, for example, the radicals in the DOJ Civil Rights Division who will be enforcing federal election laws this fall in ways to help ensure President Obama’s reelection. Ironically, two books from voter fraud deniers will be released almost simultaneously. Not surprisingly, the pair of voter fraud denying books are being released on little-read academic presses." ...