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Alabama Gave Out 2,300 Free Photo IDs Before Primary

MONTGOMERY-- Over 2,300 free photo voter ID cards have been produced in Alabama leading up to Tuesday's primary elections, Secretary of State Jim Bennett announced. Photo voter identification cards can be obtained by a voter up to, on and even after the day of the election. There is no cut-off date to receive a free photo voter ID. Bennett said he hoped to see many voters at the polls on June 3 and predicted that 25- 27% of registered voters will show up to vote. In the last gubernatorial election for Alabama in 2010, there was 32% turnout in that primary.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:59+00:00June 3rd, 2014|News, Voter ID|

Mississippi Using New Voter ID Law in Primaries

JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi will use its new voter-identification law for the first time Tuesday, culminating a long political fight in a state with a troubled past of voting rights suppression. People will be required to show a driver's license or other government-issued photo identification at the polls during the Republican and Democratic primaries for U.S. House and Senate.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:46+00:00June 3rd, 2014|News, Voter ID|

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|

308,000 Virginia Voters Registered in Other States, Report Shows

Some 308,000 Virginia voters are also registered elsewhere, according to an analysis of 22 states' election records. The finding follows Watchdog.org's report of 44,000 people who appear to be registered in both Virginia and Maryland. The latest survey found the 308,000 double registrations by matching names, birth dates and the last four digits of Social Security numbers. The Virginia Voters Alliance, which reported the results, identified "big gaps" in the voter-registration process.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:59+00:00May 27th, 2014|News, 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|

ACLU Sues over Pullback on Early Voting in Ohio

COLUMBUS - The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups filed a federal lawsuit on May 8 against Ohio's elections chief over limits to when voters can cast an early ballot in the perennial battleground state. Ohioans can cast an absentee ballot by mail or in person before Election Day without giving any reason. About 33 percent of those who voted in the 2012 presidential election cast an early ballot. The lawsuit filed in Columbus federal court claims that recent cuts to early voting will make it difficult for tens of thousands of residents to vote and will unfairly affect black voters, who the groups say are more likely to use weekend and evening hours to vote early in elections.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:07+00:00May 12th, 2014|Absentee / Mail-in Voting, Early Voting, In the Courts, News, Voter ID|

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|

Wisconsin Voter ID Authors to Reintroduce Bill

MADISON -- The Republican authors of a new voter ID bill that passed the state Assembly, but not the Senate, said Tuesday that they plan to reintroduce the legislation after the November elections. Reps. Mark Born, R-Beaver Dam, and Michael Schraa, R-Oshkosh, wrote in a column they distributed by email that they believe their bill is constitutional because it's based on an Indiana law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Born and Schraa also responded to a criticism of their bill by state Sen. Joe Leibham, R-Sheboygan, who is running for Congress and authored the state's current voter ID law that passed in 2011. Leibham said last week, after a federal judge struck down the law, that he believes the current law is constitutional and the new bill would create "such a big loophole in the voter ID requirement" that the system would be "substantially similar to the one we have now."

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:46+00:00May 7th, 2014|News, Voter ID|

Liberal Donors Eye New Strategy

A group of wealthy liberal donors who helped bankroll the Center for American Progress and other major advocacy groups on the left is developing a new big-money strategy that could boost state-level Democratic candidates and mobilize core party voters. The plan, being crafted in private by a group of about 100 donors that includes billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros and San Francisco venture capitalist Rob McKay, seeks to give Democrats a stronger hand in the redrawing of district lines for state legislatures and the U.S. House.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:07+00:00May 6th, 2014|News, Voter ID|

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