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Second Mississippi County Agrees to Clean Voter Rolls

JACKSON -- A second county in south Mississippi has agreed to clean up its inflated voter rolls after being sued by a conservative group (the ACRU) that said the county failed to purge the names of people who had died, moved away or been convicted of disenfranchising felonies. In a consent decree filed this past Friday in federal court, Jefferson Davis County said that by Jan. 31, it will identify people on the rolls who are no longer eligible to vote.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:37:01+00:00October 22nd, 2013|In the Courts, News, Voter ID|

ACRU Wins Second Historic Election Integrity Consent Decree (Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi)

Another Mississippi county agrees to take dead people, felons and [...]

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:37:13+00:00October 21st, 2013|ACRU Litigation News, In the Courts, Press Releases, Resources, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

USA Today Poll: 8 in 10 Support Photo IDs

Moves by Texas and elsewhere to require photo IDs for voters have sparked controversy, Democratic protests and Justice Department investigations. But in the survey, eight in 10 Americans support the idea, including 70% of Democrats.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:37:01+00:00October 18th, 2013|News, Voter ID|

States Join Forces to Scrub Voter Rolls

More than half of states are now working in broad alliances to scrub voter rolls of millions of questionable registrations, identifying people registered in multiple states and tens of thousands of dead voters who linger on election lists.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:37:01+00:00October 16th, 2013|News, Voter ID|

Jimmy Carter’s Change of Heart on Voter ID

Once upon a time, less than 10 years ago, many Democrats supported strong voter ID laws. Now they say such laws are "racist." Recently, former President Jimmy Carter told a crowd commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington: "I believe we all know how Dr. King would have reacted to the new I.D. requirements to exclude certain voters, especially African-Americans." Say what? Mr. Carter co-chaired the Commission on Federal Election Reform, whose 2005 report, "Building Confidence in U.S. Elections," strongly recommended voter-ID laws and other reforms to ensure election integrity.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:35:17+00:00October 15th, 2013|ACRU Commentary, Voter ID|

Lawyer Attacking Breitbart’s Widow Also Attacking North Carolina’s Voter ID

Thomas Yannucci, the same lawyer representing Shirley Sherrod in her efforts to sue online news pioneer Andrew Breitbart's widow, is the same lawyer attacking North Carolina's voter ID law.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:35:17+00:00October 9th, 2013|ACRU Commentary, Voter ID|

WSJ: Eric Holder’s 2014 Racial Politics

"For Eric Holder, American racial history is frozen in the 1960s," according to a Wall Street Journal editorial. "The Supreme Court ruled in June that a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is no longer justified due to racial progress, but the U.S. Attorney General has launched a campaign to undo the decision state-by-state. His latest target is North Carolina, which he seems to think is run from the grave by the early version of George Wallace."

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:26:58+00:00October 9th, 2013|ACRU Commentary, Early Voting|

Iowa Man Guilty in Vote Fraud Case

DES MOINES -- A Dallas County man, Tehvedin Murgic, pleaded guilty to interfering or attempting to interfere with a voter while the voter was marking a ballot during a general election. A report last November by the Associated Press said Murgic was ineligible to vote because he was not a U.S. citizen, but registered and cast a ballot in the 2010 general election. A Secretary of State's Office spokesman also said Murgic is a felon, another factor that could make him ineligible to vote.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:09+00:00October 9th, 2013|In the Courts, News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Are Minorities Too Dumb to Get an ID?

Attacking North Carolina's new voter ID law as the "harshest voter suppression law in the nation," the ACLU's North Carolina chapter saluted the U.S. Justice Department for filing a lawsuit on Sept. 30 challenging the law. Like Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., the ACLU considers minorities haplessly incompetent at the monumental task of acquiring IDs. The Justice Department's lawsuit claims that minority voters are less likely to have common photo IDs and that shortening the early voting period would also disproportionately affect minorities.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:37:01+00:00October 4th, 2013|ACRU Commentary, Early Voting, Voter ID|

Holder Sues North Carolina over Voter ID Law

The Justice Department filed suit Monday to block North Carolina's new voter-ID law, with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. accusing state Republicans of engaging in a deliberate effort to suppress black voter turnout. Mr. Holder also warned state officials across the nation not to adopt voting laws that could hurt minorities, and he said Republicans' worries about voter fraud are "not real." "The Obama Justice Department's baseless claims about North Carolina's election reform law are nothing more than an obvious attempt to quash the will of the voters and hinder a hugely popular voter ID requirement," North Carolina State Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis, both Republicans, said.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:35:17+00:00October 1st, 2013|In the Courts, News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

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