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Playing the Race Card in Court

There's more racism afoot in the land, and it fits the soft bigotry of lowered expectations. Did you know that minorities need more than a full month in which to cast a vote? And they can't be expected to show a photo ID like other voters. That would be asking too much of them. Who, you might ask, is perpetrating this libel about the missing adulthood of America's minorities? Why, the very people who claim to speak for them on all matters. The same ones who created redistributive welfare policies that destroyed inner-city families. The latest ploy that makes some citizens out to be imbeciles in need of a master is a legal attack on several election reform laws enacted in 2014. In Ohio, leftist groups have filed a lawsuit demanding that state officials restore more than a full month of voting before Election Day, plus other measures intended to eliminate the slightest inconvenience at having to register or to vote. They claim the new rules violate the First, 14th and 15th amendments and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, plus the Civil Rights Act of 1964. "This is the Left's new legal strategy to go after election reforms aimed at discouraging vote fraud," said J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department Voting Section attorney and current policy board member of the . Mr. Adams, who has successfully sued counties in Mississippi and Texas to clean up their voter rolls, added, "If they succeed in Ohio, they'll roll this out all over the country." On May 8, the Ohio Organizing Collaborative filed in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Ohio, alleging that election reforms enacted in 2014 by the Republican-led legislature that reined in the state's lax requirements were intended to burden people who tend to vote Democrat, especially minorities and young voters.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:04+00:00May 18th, 2015|ACRU Commentary, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Meet the Federal Bureaucrat Who Stopped Kansas from Preventing Foreigners from Voting

The Supreme Court has been asked to allow Kansas and Arizona to verify that only United States citizens are registering to vote in those states. Unfortunately, a single federal bureaucrat refused to allow Kansas and Arizona to weed out non-citizens trying to register to vote. Meet Alice Miller, the Acting Director of the Election Assistance Commission. Walker alone, sitting in her inside-the-Beltway office, refused to amend the Kansas and Arizona version of a federal voter registration form to include state laws requiring proof of citizenship. Backed by a swarm of left wing groups, Miller, by herself, made it easier for foreigners to vote in Kansas and Arizona.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:04+00:00May 5th, 2015|ACRU Commentary, Proof of Citizenship, Voter ID|

New Hampshire Bill Would Require 30-day Residency

A bill has been passed by the New Hampshire state Senate that would require voters to reside in the state for 30 days before becoming eligible to vote. Senate Bill 179 was passed by the Republican-controlled state Senate in a party-line vote, and is currently in committee in the House. New Hampshire law currently permits same-day voter registration. The legislation would amend the way the state defines "domicile" to require that a voter reside in the Granite State for "no less than 30 consecutive days" before they become eligible to cast a ballot. Supporters argue that a residency requirement would reduce voter fraud.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:58+00:00May 4th, 2015|News, Same-Day Registration, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Dems Push for Same-Day Voting

Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) want every state to offer same-day voter registration for federal elections. The Democratic senators have reintroduced the Same Day Registration Act, which would require states to allow voters to register on the day of an election. Ten states, plus the District of Columbia, currently allow eligible voters to do so, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. In addition, the group notes that Illinois is expected to implement statewide same-day voter registration later this year. Advocates argue it can help increase voter turnout, while opponents say it increases the chances for voting fraud. Klobuchar said the legislation would help "foster" the right to vote. "The right to vote is the foundation of our democracy," she said in a statement. "We should be doing everything we can to foster this right."

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:04+00:00May 4th, 2015|News, Same-Day Registration, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Growing Evidence that Non-Citizens Are Voting

Noncitizens are registering to vote and at best, it seems the federal government's officials don't care about this illegal activity. At worst, it raises questions whether some in Washington support illegal voting, so long as it supports their political agenda. The exact number of noncitizens who are voting in our elections is difficult to quantify because of the bureaucratic quagmire perpetuated by federal agencies against the (very few) states that have the resolve to attempt to verify citizenship. Federal agencies responsible for immigration and naturalization routinely fight efforts to compare voter rolls with lists of known noncitizens. Yet evidence of noncitizen voting mounts. The just filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court documenting instance after instance of noncitizens registering and voting. It urges the Court to take up a petition for certiorari filed by Kansas and Arizona seeking to overturn a bad decision on this issue by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:58+00:00April 30th, 2015|ACRU Commentary, Proof of Citizenship, Voter ID|

Report: DHS Adding Millions of ‘New Americans’ to Vote in 2016

There are millions of green card holders in the United States, and sources inside the Department of Homeland Security say a new program is urging them to become citizens in time to vote in the 2016 election. Of the 20 states with the highest green card population, 14 are holding Senate races in 2016, so millions of new voters could dramatically impact the election. J. Christian Adams said on "Fox and Friends Weekend" that this is a case of Democrats using the levers of power to preserve power. "What they're doing is doing a full-court press on getting these aliens - 9,000,000 of them - registered as citizens in time for the 2016 election," Adams said. "They're redirecting resources of DHS to this effort, this campaign." Adams noted that an internal memo from Leon Rodriguez, the director and co-chair of the DHS' "Task Force on New Americans," said, "This report outlines an immigrant integration plan that will advance our nation's global competitiveness and ensure that the people who live in this country can fully participate in their communities." "They say it nakedly in this letter that this is all about politics," Adams stated.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:04+00:00April 26th, 2015|News, Voter ID|

Making It Easy to Cheat

On a host of electoral integrity issues, the liberal position can be summarized in two words: enable cheating. You think that's too harsh? How else to explain the race-baiting rhetoric from President Obama on down against something as common-sense as voter photo ID laws, which the public supports by wide margins? Or the intense drive for Election Day registration, mail-in voting and earlier and earlier balloting, all of which make it harder to detect and prevent vote fraud? Or the opposition to any law ensuring that only citizens can vote? A case in point of the latter is the Obama administration's stiff-arming of two states that want to require proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote. Kansas and Arizona, which already require proof of citizenship on state election forms, asked the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to include a requirement for proof of citizenship on the federal form. Backed by the Obama Justice Department, the EAC declined. The two states sued, won in U.S. District Court, but saw the verdict overturned in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Now, the case is heading for the U.S. Supreme Court. In a brief submitted this past week asking the court to take the case, the provided key evidence -- federal voter registration forms -- exposing the shocking ease with which noncitizens can register to vote without any proof of citizenship.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:04+00:00April 26th, 2015|ACRU Commentary, Proof of Citizenship, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

ACRU Supreme Court Brief Reveals Non-Citizens Registering to Vote

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 21, 2015) --- Non-citizens, even some admitting so on their application forms, are registering to vote under current federal law, as exposed in documents submitted today by the (ACRU) to the U.S. Supreme Court. According to ACRU's brief in Kobach v. U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), of thirteen federal voter registration forms provided to the Court by the ACRU, "Four of the individuals actually checked 'no' on the citizenship question, six checked 'no' and 'yes', and the remaining three left the checkbox blank entirely." Nevertheless, they were all registered to vote. "The left is registering non-citizens to vote every day of the week, using the federal form. Every ineligible vote cancels out the vote of an American citizen," said ACRU Chairman Susan A. Carleson. "Our election process is becoming a mockery. The states need to be allowed to require proof of citizenship to register to vote."

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:04+00:00April 21st, 2015|In the Courts, News, Press Releases, Proof of Citizenship, Voter ID|

No. 3 Democrat: Voter ID Laws Helped Killer Cop Gun Down Victim

Did you know that voter-ID cards caused last week's police-involved shooting of an unarmed black man? This incredible revelation comes courtesy of the No. 3 Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, James Clyburn of South Carolina. Responding to the five bullets that North Charleston police officer Michael Slager fatally fired into the back of a black man named Walter Scott, Mr. Clyburn blamed this bloody mess on none other than the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and its work for ballot integrity. The U.S. House Assistant Minority Leader, Mr. Clyburn explained to "Hardball" host Chris Matthews, thanks to "ALEX [sic] . . . a climate has been created in the country that's causing these things to occur all over." Clyburn continued: They have drawn up these legislations [sic], pieces of legislation like stand your ground, that legislation gives a license for people to be vigilantes. They are the ones that are drawing up all of these, uh, so-called voter-ID laws. They are the ones that have been drawing up these unfair redistricting plans. These people are a cancer eating at the inners [sic] of our society. So, photo-ID requirements are not just disenfranchising blacks who, supposedly, are incapable of possessing or even requesting them before they visit the polls. Now, voter ID is responsible for gunning down a black man.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:43+00:00April 15th, 2015|ACRU Commentary, Redistricting, Voter ID|

North Carolina Back in the Voter ID Pack

RALEIGH - The new election laws the Republican-led General Assembly passed in 2013 in many ways put North Carolina more on par with other states across the country. Up to that point, the Tar Heel State had some of the least restrictive election laws. Now, it probably falls somewhere in the middle of the pack. Here's how the state compares today, according to information from the National Conference of State Legislatures: Voter ID: North Carolina is one of 34 states that have passed voter identification requirements, and such requirements are in force in 32 states. Pennsylvania's voter ID law was struck down and won't be appealed. North Carolina's takes effect in 2016, barring action by the courts to the contrary.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:43+00:00April 15th, 2015|News, Voter ID|

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