In a video interview with Ginni Thomas on the Daily Caller website, ACRU Policy Board member J. Christian Adams explains how the Justice Department is using the law to punish political opponents.
Zombies, who just won't stay in the graveyard, are back with us again, and not just on the screen in "World War Z" and "The Walking Dead." It turns out that 1,100 of the dearly departed are active in Maryland politics. Maybe lots more than that. The nonpartisan watchdog group Election Integrity Maryland sampled 36,000 names on the state's voter rolls and counted 1,100 who had gone to a better precinct in the sky.
As the plaintiffs in the lawsuits filed in federal and state court explained their challenges of the new elections law, advocates of IDs and other revisions worked to bolster their cases. J. Christian Adams, a former U.S. Justice Department lawyer, issued a statement Tuesday that was critical of the NAACP and ACLU, organizations behind two of the lawsuits. "Groups like the NAACP and ACLU have consistently opposed every election integrity measure, and have even opposed any compromises," said Adams. Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/13/4234750/opponents-of-new-nc-voting-laws.html#storylink=cpy
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) on August 12 signed into law one of the nation's most wide-ranging Voter ID laws. The move is likely to touch off a major court battle over voting rights, and the Justice Department is weighing a challenge to the new law.
CORALVILLE, Iowa --- After a couple of "hiccups" getting started, a state investigation into voter fraud is "moving in the right direction" and Iowans will begin seeing results soon, according to Secretary of State Matt Schultz.
Houston County -- An investigation is underway by the sheriff's office into allegations of illegal absentee voting in the Dothan City election in District 2 on August 6.
A former southeastern Kentucky judge and five others have been released from prison until they are retried in October on federal charges that they engineered a vote-buying scheme that stretched across three election cycles.
Dutchess County Democratic Election Commissioner Fran Knapp was back at work a day after pleading not guilty to a 94-count indictment, which follows a pattern of other election officials who have faced criminal charges. Knapp, 61, of the City of Poughkeepsie was charged with 46 felonies, involving 45 counts of misconduct of an election officer and one count of making an apparently sworn false statement, class E felonies. She also faces 48 class A misdemeanors.
RALEIGH -- An NBC affiliate TV station says that "only" 121 vote fraud cases from 2012 show that vote fraud is not an issue: "One of the more compelling arguments for voter identification is the suppression of voter fraud. But for North Carolina, the number of cases of voter fraud reported by the state Board of Elections is minimal. In 2012, nearly 7 million ballots were cast in the general and two primary elections. Of those 6,947,317 ballots, the state Board of Elections said 121 alleged cases of voter fraud were referred to the appropriate district attorney's office.
A Frederick County woman has been charged with illegal voting in the 2012 presidential election, the Office of the State Prosecutor announced Tuesday. Elsie Virginia Schildt, 46, was indicted by the Frederick County grand jury for charges of impersonating another person in an attempt to vote, attempting to vote under a false name, and attempting to vote more than once in the same election. Each charge is punishable by up to five years imprisonment and a fine of $2,500.