Mississippi County Forced by Federal Court to Purge Bloated Voter Rolls
A former U.S. Justice Department attorney is pleased that a [...]
Court Victory for Voter Integrity in Mississippi
U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett in the Southern District of [...]
Walthall County Agrees to Clear Inflated Voter Roll
JACKSON (AP) -- South Mississippi's Walthall County has agreed to purge the names of ineligible voters from its voter registration roll, including those of any dead people and disenfranchised felons whose names appear. The agreement was filed Wednesday in a consent order in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg. The sued two south Mississippi counties, Walthall and Jefferson Davis, in April. The lawsuits said the counties both had more registered voters than residents who were at least 18, the minimum voting age.
ACRU Wins Historic Consent Decree for Mississippi County to Clean Up Voter Rolls
HATTIESBURG, MS -- Officials in Walthall County, Mississippi, were sued in April by the (ACRU) under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (commonly called "Motor Voter") for having more registered voters than voting-age-eligible residents. On Wednesday, the parties settled the case. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi entered a final Walthall_County_Consent_Decree.pdf that requires the defendants to clean up the county's voter rolls.
Holder: Feds Will Sue over Voter ID, but Not over Weed
Mississippi columnist Sid Salter: Seems U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is fully prepared to sue Southern states over Voter ID laws, but is not willing to sue Colorado and Washington in their efforts to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana. Holder's logic is apparently that while states should have lots of leeway on how they deal with enforcement of federal laws against smoking and selling weed, states should not have that same leeway when it comes to efforts to fight perceived voter fraud.
ACLU of Iowa Asks Judge to Block Effort to Remove Ineligible Voters from Rolls
The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa has asked a Polk County judge to permanently block a state rule guiding the removal of ineligible voters from the rolls. The request for summary judgment in the lawsuit against Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schulz is the latest turn in a case that has gone on for nearly a year. If granted, the rule that Schultz's office enacted earlier this year outlining a process for identifying and removing noncitizens from the state voter rolls would be invalidated.
3 Missouri Men Charged with Vote Fraud
ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office arrested three men on Aug. 27 on vote fraud charges. Earlier this year, officials at the Board of Elections contacted St. Louis County police about potential vote fraud. An investigation by St. Louis County detectives led them to the suspects.
3 Set to Plead Guilty in Kentucky Vote Fraud Case
LEXINGTON - A former magistrate and two business owners whose convictions were overturned in a federal vote-buying case plan to plead guilty. The three were among eight Clay County residents convicted in 2010. In overturning their convictions, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the trial judge allowed prosecutors to present evidence that was inadmissible. No date has been set for the re-arraignments. Attorneys for one-time Clay-County Magistrate Stanley Bowling and former garbage-hauling business owners Bart and Debra Morris have filed motions saying the three will plead guilty to a charge they took part in a conspiracy to control local politics by means of vote fraud.
Two Somali Immigrants Charged with Double Voting in Minnesota
About 50 men and women packed a Rice County courtroom on August 27 as two Somali women pleaded not guilty to charges of voter fraud stemming from the general election last November. Farhiya Abdi Dool, 38, and Amina A Hassan, 31, each face one felony charge of unlawful voting for voting once by absentee ballot and once at a polling place during the 2012 general election. Each woman faces five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for the offense.
Meet the Radical DOJ Lawyers Suing Texas over Voter ID
PJ Media has already reported the long progressive histories of the radical lawyers in the Voting Section, including those who authored the complaint against Texas. A refresher from ACRU Policy Board member J. Christian Adams: Meredith Bell-Platts comes from the ACLU's Voting Rights Project. Anna Baldwin is a former field coordinator for Equality Florida and was a member of Harvard's "Queer Resistance Front." Daniel Freeman was a fellow at the New York Civil Liberties Union and an intern for the ACLU.