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Eight Reasons for Halting Early Voting

President Obama's commission on election administration recently issued a final report containing some terrible recommendations. The worst idea in the report is a call for states to expand early voting. Some states already open polls weeks in advance of Election Day. In Wyoming, polls open in September, even before the end of Major League Baseball's regular season. Mr. Obama's federal commission wants American elections to start earlier and last longer. Here's eight reasons why the early-voting fad is a bad idea. First, early voting produces less-informed voters. After they cast an early ballot, they check out of the national debate. They won't care about the televised debates, won't consider options, and won't fully participate in the political process.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:08+00:00February 9th, 2014|ACRU Commentary, Early Voting, Voter ID|

Senate Showdown over Civil Rights Nominee

The next major confirmation battle will be over Debo Adegbile, President Barack Obama's choice to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, according to sources in the U.S. Senate. The pending showdown over Adegbile -- onetime child star on TV's "Sesame Street" and former acting president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund -- is nothing short of high-stakes political poker. To the left, the choice of Adegbile, 46, is an unmistakable signal from the president and Attorney General Eric Holder that the administration is going to fight states over imposing voter identification laws which they are convinced disenfranchises minorities. Now senior counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, Adegbile is considered a reliable leader in the fight over voter I.D. laws that are sure to emerge from state capitals in 2014. In addition, as head of the Legal Defense Fund, Adegbile defended the constitutionality of the 1965 Voting Rights Act before the Supreme Court.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:37:09+00:00February 5th, 2014|ACRU Commentary, Voter ID|

ACRU Sues Texas County over Corrupt Voter Rolls

SANDERSON, TX (Jan. 28, 2014) – The has filed suit [...]

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:39:00+00:00January 28th, 2014|ACRU Litigation News, In the Courts, Press Releases, Voter ID, Voter Roll Maintenance|

ACRU’s Complaint against Terrell County, Texas

SANDERSON, TX (Jan. 28, 2014) – The (ACRU) has sued [...]

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:08+00:00January 28th, 2014|ACRU Complaints, In the Courts, Voter ID|

Conservative Super PAC Formed to Defend Voter ID, Election Reforms

With voter-ID laws and other reforms taking center stage, a conservative group said Wednesday it is launching a new super PAC to fund state secretary of state candidates willing to go toe-to-toe with Democrats and defend more rigorous voter roll rules and stiffer election requirements.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:35:16+00:00January 23rd, 2014|News, Voter ID|

States Seek Right to Ask New Voters for Citizenship Proof

States are vowing to go to the courts for permission to ask newly registered voters to show proof of citizenship after a federal commission ruled late Friday that it's up to the national government, not states, to decide what to include on registration forms. Under the motor-voter law, federal officials distribute voter-registration forms in all of the states. Arizona, Kansas and Georgia all asked that those forms request proof of citizenship, but the federal Election Assistance Commission rejected that in a 46-page ruling released late Friday, just ahead of a court-imposed deadline.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:37:00+00:00January 22nd, 2014|News, Proof of Citizenship, Voter ID|

Judge Strikes Down Pennsylvania Photo ID Law

A Pennsylvania judge on Jan. 17 struck down the state's voter ID law, which was signed in early 2012 and is one of the strictest in the nation, ruling that the statute "unreasonably burdens the right to vote." "Voting laws are designed to assure a free and fair election; the Voter ID Law does not further this goal," Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard McGinley wrote.Pennsylvania's law requires all voters to bring to the polls identification issued by the state government or the U.S. government, or another valid credential such as a student ID with an expiration date, in order to cast their vote. If a would-be voter does not have an appropriate ID, that person can cast a provisional ballot and the vote will be counted if an adequate ID is brought to the local elections office within six days. The state's Republican-led Legislature passed the law in spring 2012, saying it would help prevent voter fraud, and GOP Gov. Tom Corbett signed it shortly thereafter.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:37:00+00:00January 18th, 2014|Early Voting, In the Courts, News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Sensenbrenner Works with Far Left Groups on Voting Rights Act

Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) this week announced his intention to pass a bill "reforming" the Voting Rights Act. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act last year. As J. Christian Adams reported: " [Sensenbrenner's bill would] radically expand federal power over state elections. It would give Attorney General Eric Holder expansive new federal powers over state elections, including the ability to barge into polling places to monitor the use of foreign language election materials. It would also give Holder the power to block election integrity measures like Voter ID and citizenship verification." Holder has earned a reputation for being one of the most partisan attorneys general in American history, litigating against states that have chosen to adopt election security reforms including voter ID. On Friday, Jan. 17, Sensenbrenner was to hold a conference call to discuss his bill. He was to be joined on the call by far-left leaders, including Nancy Zirkin of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Deborah Vagins of the ACLU, and Tanya Clay House, from the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:37:09+00:00January 17th, 2014|News, Proof of Citizenship, Voter ID|

Voter Fraud in New York — Proof that It’s Easy

Liberals who oppose efforts to prevent voter fraud claim that there is no fraud -- or at least not any that involves voting in person at the polls. But New York City's watchdog Department of Investigations has just provided the latest evidence of how easy it is to commit voter fraud that is almost undetectable. DOI undercover agents showed up at 63 polling places last fall and pretended to be voters who should have been turned away by election officials; the agents assumed the names of individuals who had died or moved out of town, or who were sitting in jail. In 61 instances, or 97 percent of the time, the testers were allowed to vote.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:37:00+00:00January 14th, 2014|ACRU Commentary, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Texas Vote Buying Schemes in the Spotlight

Donna, TX -- Three women working as politiqueras in the 2012 elections in Donna were arrested by F.B.I. agents in December and accused of giving residents cash, drugs, beer and cigarettes in exchange for their votes. According to court documents, the typical payment to a voter was $10, a sign of the extreme poverty in the Rio Grande Valley, which is home to some of the poorest counties in America. Two of the three women -- Rebecca Gonzalez and Guadalupe Escamilla -- are accused of paying some voters as little as $3 for each of their votes. One voter was given a pack of cigarettes. Others were taken to buy drugs after they received cash for voting for a politiquera's candidate.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:08+00:00January 13th, 2014|News, Voter ID|

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