Why Should Students Be Allowed to Vote Where they Don’t Reside?
Last Saturday the New York Times ran their latest bias hit piece in favor of vote fraud focusing on voter ID requirements for students in North Carolina. While it would be easy to go through the story step by step and point out the facts it gets wrong or ignores (like how the Justice Department lost the most similar lawsuit against neighboring South Carolina), let’s instead focus on one aspect of student voting.
Read moreVote Fraud in Minnesota Democrat Primary Proves Need for ID
More than 140 people are alleged to have listed their current address as a mail center in the basement of a Minneapolis commercial property while registering to vote. The attorney for Phyllis Kahn, Democrat candidate for Minnesota State House, is calling for an investigation after discovering that there might be a coordinated effort to register voters using the 419 Cedar Avenue address in Minneapolis. Kahn’s Attorney Brian Rice says, "I think there is a coordinated effort to use this address to bring voters into the DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) primary election on August 12, that's what I think is going on. It's wrong, it violates Minnesota Law, it's a crime."
Read moreFourth Circuit Nominee Pamela Harris Raises Concerns
Threats to democracy, real and imagined
Events in Washington have a way of colliding unexpectedly, laying bare the vapid emptiness of stock political rhetoric. Recent Congressional hearings demonstrate this axiom.
Read moreReactions to Hobby Lobby Case From Conservative Leaders
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell:
Today’s Supreme Court decision makes clear that the Obama administration cannot trample on the religious freedoms that Americans hold dear. ObamaCare is the single worst piece of legislation to pass in the last 50 years, and I was glad to see the Supreme Court agree that this particular ObamaCare mandate violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
Read more308,000 Double-Registered Between VA and Other States
Voting Rights Act "Very Effective" One Year After Shelby County.
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday regarding S.1945, a bill that would amend the Voting Rights Act in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder. In that case, the Court held Section Five of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, a section that subjected many Southern states to prescreening by the Justice Department on legislation relevant to voting rights.
Read moreOnce Again Republican Voter Intimidation is Proven a Myth
According to numerous reports yesterday and the days before voter intimidation was going to occur in yesterday’s Mississippi primary because of a conservative group’s poll watching program. MSNBC, the New York Times and even liberal election blog sites were filled with rhetoric of how “voters are going to be reminded of the state’s violent racist past.” Medgar Evers name came up multiple times yesterday and typical of the rhetoric on MSNBC was the statement that it is “unconscionable to send poll watchers” as poll watching is “about keeping black voters from potentially voting.”
Read moreHow Democrats Try to Win a Republican Primary: Crying Wolf on Intimidation
Today, the small election law community is going crazy over the Republican Senate runoff in Mississippi. Unlike the rest of the political world that is concerned with the result, the liberal election law community is concerned with intimidation in the Republican primary.
Read moreVote Fraud “Likely Gone on Here for Years” in Alabama
An Alabama grand jury indicted the girlfriend of Dothan commissioner Amos Newsome on 23 counts of vote fraud in the campaign to re-elect Newsome last August. After absentee ballots favored Newsome by a 119-5 margin, his opponent filed a complaint, because Newsome won by only 14 votes. Prompted by the wide discrepancy, the county sheriff conducted a thorough investigation over several weeks, interviewing more than 100 witnesses.
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