Attempting to preempt restless progressives unsatisfied with her Democrat coronation, Hillary Clinton’s consultants went to the drawing board. Bemoaning political money and calling for campaign finance reform was one easy fix they discovered to mollify all those potential progressive check writers and precinct walkers.

One of the problems with proving vote fraud is that it often takes years to come to light.  It has been proven a multitude of ways in a multitude of places, as recently as last year from conservative blogs to the Washington Post, that Obamacare was passed on the back of vote fraud in the 2008 Minnesota Senate Election.  

One of President Obama’s most appealing campaign promises were his call for “transparency” in government.  Yet at every turn his Administration has fought any efforts at transparency.  While the media is focusing on efforts by Cabinet Officials such as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hiding her emails on a private server, the problem is much deeper. 

A Heritage Foundation study recently addressed this issue.  The Heritage study was in response to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.  GAO reviewed recent elections in Kansas and claimed that "Kansas... had seen decreased voter turnout since its voter ID law went into effect" in 2012, therefore, voter ID laws have a negative impact since they suppress voter turnout.

In honor of Tax Day, the House of Representatives recently passed a series of bills to increase IRS accountability and protect taxpayers.  One of the bills that was passed out of the House was HR 709, the “Prevent Targeting at the IRS Act.”

On April 15, Representative Peter Roskam is leading the charge for a taxpayers bill of rights.  As he writes:

Yesterday the Florida Chapter of the RNLA sent a letter to members of the Florida Legislature to urge members to review and amend current election law to facilitate the sharing of voter registration data across state lines.

Having retooled Mayday PAC, Harvard professor Larry Lessig has jumped to his next project: describing the political system as ‘corrupt’ while avoiding the term for participants. His intellectual voyage travels as well as Mayday’s maiden venture.

The RNLA’s 2015 successful 30th Anniversary National Policy Conference has been in the news over the past week. Here are a few links and highlights in case you missed it: