ACRU Wins Second Historic Election Integrity Consent Decree (Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi)
Another Mississippi county agrees to take dead people, felons and [...]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Texas AG: Obamacare Would Not Be Law Without Vote Fraud
Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, discussed voting rights, redistricting and Texas' voter ID law at a panel in Austin on Sept. 28 and made the argument that the Affordable Care Act would not have passed into law without "voter fraud." Abbott, speaking at the Texas Tribune festival, said Minnesota Senator Al Franken won his seat, which was decided by a 312-vote margin, because of voter fraud and that his subsequent vote on the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, wouldn't have been cast.
Maryland Woman Pleads Guilty to Vote Fraud
A Frederick County woman pleaded guilty to voter fraud after she was charged with signing her dead mother's name on an absentee ballot in the 2012 presidential election, the state prosecutor's office announced on Sept. 19. Elsie Virginia Schildt, 46, was sentenced to probation before judgment and ordered to perform 40 hours of community service in the first 120 days of her probation.