ACRU Commentary Archives - Page 29 of 39 - Voting Integrity Institute

Cantor Defeat May Have Prevented Bad Voting Rights Amendment

Contrary to conventional wisdom, many liberals privately mourn the departure of Eric Cantor from the ranks of the House GOP leadership. At a symposium on Wednesday sponsored by the Hill newspaper on "Voting in America," several of the attendees told me that they and Majority Leader Cantor were within striking distance of a compromise to restore many of the provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that were struck down by the Supreme Court last year as unconstitutional. The Court ruled that certain provisions that singled out certain states and jurisdictions for special oversight based on 50-year-old data were obsolete and could no longer be justified. Liberal civil-rights groups were furious and vowed to pass a "restoration" bill restoring all of the Justice Department's power over federal elections.

ACRU Staff2014-06-17T12:49:54+00:00June 17th, 2014|ACRU Commentary|

Battleground Texas: Inside the Fight to Turn the State Blue

McAllen, Texas (MSNBC) -- Battleground Texas, a Democratic group working to turn the Lone Star State blue, gathered a group of 20 or so young volunteers in a college classroom here last weekend just a few miles from the Mexican border. They came to be trained in the nuts and bolts of political organizing--how to register new voters, set up phone banks and door-to-door canvasses on behalf of Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate for governor. But, over a lunch of tamales and salsa, an organizer asked participants, nearly all Hispanic, to share the personal stories that had led them to get involved.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:59+00:00June 5th, 2014|ACRU Commentary, Voter ID|

DOJ Absent from Blatant Voting Bias Case

Judge Ramona Manglona of the federal district court for the Northern Mariana Islands just threw out a blatantly unconstitutional provision of the territorial government that strictly limited registration and voting for a referendum to only those "persons of Northern Marianas descent." The Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) defines persons of Northern Marianas descent as those who are "at least one-quarter Northern Marianas Chamorro or Northern Marianas Carolinian blood or a combination thereof or an adopted child of a person of Northern Marianas descent if adopted while under the age of eighteen years." One is considered a "full-blooded" Chamorro or Carolinian if "born or domiciled" in the territory by 1950. There is no question that CNMI's voting prohibitions are racially discriminatory. In fact, they are reminiscent of the odious "one-drop rule" of racial segregation codes or the First Regulation to the Reichs Citizenship Law of Nov. 14, 1935, which similarly defined Jews based on their ancestry. Yet John Davis was forced to bring this suit at his own expense, with his own lawyer, because the Justice Department was nowhere to be found. It had no interest in filing a lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act against a blatantly discriminatory and repugnant law that prevented John Davis from voting because he doesn't have the right "blood" quantum.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:29:06+00:00May 30th, 2014|ACRU Commentary, Proof of Citizenship|

Voting Online Is Not in Foreseeable Future

By Hans von Spakovsky -- Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos recently published a commentary in the Hill claiming that "voting online is the future." He also accused me of being against Internet voting because I want to "suppress" votes. That kind of ad hominem attack seems to always be the first refuge of those who are unable to argue substantively about a particular issue. I am against it because of the fundamental security problems presented by online voting and the fact that it could result in large-scale voter disenfranchisement. Moulitsas claims that creating a secure online voting system is "possible given current technology." That is 100 percent wrong and shows how little he understands about the Internet or the voting process. You don't have to take my word for it -- that is the opinion of most computer scientists.

ACRU Staff2014-05-30T13:09:16+00:00May 30th, 2014|ACRU Commentary|

Report Uncovers Double Voting in Florida, North Carolina

RALEIGH, NC -- Double voting among Florida and North Carolina (or FLANC) voters appears to be a crime committed equally by both political parties, according to a technical report produced by Voter Integrity Project and released May 21 to Legislators and election officials. "This report is a brief but dense description of the research led by our Research Director and a team of 22 volunteer researchers spread throughout the state," said Jay DeLancy, Executive Director of VIP. "It took 16 months and three iterations to achieve the level of quality we needed and the results were outstanding." Of the 149 double votes the group reported last month to election officials, there were 38 Republicans, 34 Democrats, 27 Unaffiliated and one Libertarian. Several of whom had voted in multiple elections. "We need to remind everyone: this research points to vote fraud," said DeLancy, "but cannot determine who actually cast the second vote. Some will be the same person voting twice, but others will involve identity theft, which is easily committed against voters who moved away without notifying their Election Boards."

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:59+00:00May 28th, 2014|ACRU Commentary, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Columnist: Scrapping Early Voting Means Less Time for Electoral Mischief

Ballots cast today are under scrutiny, and with 2014 mid-term elections fast approaching, we must be aware of potential abuses of our most basic right. We saw with the 2012 general election a glut of voter fraud. From Florida and Ohio to Pennsylvania and Texas, there have been reports of voting machine malfunctions, dead people on voter rolls and 99 percent of votes cast going to President Obama in some counties. This should be a concern for both parties and a non-partisan issue because no freedom-loving patriot wants the outcome of an election to be falsely skewed.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:07+00:00May 22nd, 2014|ACRU Commentary, Early Voting, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Judges and Voter ID

On April 29, federal-district-court judge Lynn Adelman -- a Clinton appointee, former Democratic state senator, and former Legal Aid Society lawyer -- held that Wisconsin's voter-ID requirement violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, because it places "an unjustified burden on the right to vote." This decision has gotten a great deal of attention in the mainstream press (or the drive-by media, as Rush Limbaugh likes to calls them).What got almost no attention was a decision by another federal district court in Tennessee on February 20 over that state's voter-ID law. In that case, Judge Ronnie Greer upheld voter ID as constitutional.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:46+00:00May 21st, 2014|ACRU Commentary, In the Courts, Voter ID|

Pa. Attorney General Tolerates ‘Criminal Behavior’ on Elections, Adams Tells Panel

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane's "brazen unwillingness" to pursue bribery allegations sent a message that "criminal behavior" touching on elections will be tolerated, J. Christian Adams, an Policy Board member, told a state House committee considering an impeachment resolution.

ACRU Staff2014-05-09T12:14:34+00:00May 9th, 2014|ACRU Commentary|

Voter Fraud: An Existential Threat to America

WASHINGTON D.C. (May 8) Accuracy in Media has released a major report by James Simpson detailing vote fraud in the United States: "It is fitting to begin this report by recounting a story of deliberate, blatant official voter fraud. This April 17, the Illinois House Executive Committee voted to authorize $100 million to construct President Obama's future presidential library and museum in Chicago. AP reported that the Committee voted "unanimously," 9-0 to support the plan. The report was false. Only four of the 11 Committee members were in attendance--all Democrats. They did not even have a quorum. Furthermore, this was supposed to be a "subject matter only" hearing, i.e., entailing no votes. No matter; the legislators simply made up the results--even counting absent Republicans as "yes" votes. Republican State Representative Ed Sullivan observed, "In this case they didn't even care to change the rules; they just flat out broke them."

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:59+00:00May 9th, 2014|ACRU Commentary, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Political Fraud about Voter Fraud

In an April 11 speech to Al Sharpton's National Action Network, President Obama recited statistics purporting to show that voter fraud was extremely rare. The "real voter fraud," he said, "is people who try to deny our rights by making bogus arguments about voter fraud." These arguments themselves are bogus. Consider the two studies from which Mr. Obama drew his statistics. The first, which he said "found only 10 cases of alleged in-person voter impersonation in 12 years," is a 2012 report issued by News21, an Arizona State University project.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:59+00:00April 28th, 2014|ACRU Commentary, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

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