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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|

Vote Buying Is at Center of Kentucky Judge-Executive Case

FRANKFORT (AP) - On election day in Magoffin County, Jerry Adams said his second cousin drove him to the local Save-a-Lot and gave him $25 to vote for Michael "Doc" Hardin for county judge executive - a key office that controls a lot of jobs in this economically depressed area. Hardin would go on to win the election by 28 votes over Republican challenger John Montgomery. But Montgomery would challenge the results in court, and in February a circuit court judge took the unusual step of declaring the office vacant after ruling that Adams and at least three others were paid for their votes while other voters benefited from property improvements from county workers prior to the election. On Tuesday, the state Court of Appeals was to weigh whether to uphold that decision in a case that displays eastern Kentucky's century-old history of vote-buying in local elections. State and federal officials have a number of election fraud cases every year, so many that the Attorney General's office audits election results of randomly selected counties each year and state and federal officials monitor elections through the Kentucky Election Integrity Task Force.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:04+00:00April 15th, 2015|News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Adams: Non-Citizens Are Registering to Vote

Local state government officials are registering non-U.S. citizens as valid voters -- even when the non-citizens say they are not Americans on their voter registration forms, a former Justice Department attorney tells The Daily Caller. J. Christian Adams, a former United States Department of Justice official in the Civil Rights Division, will show the Supreme Court in an brief later this month that non-citizens are registering to vote through the government's motor voter program. The motor voter act became law during the Clinton administration as an easier way to register voters through their local Department of Motor Vehicles offices, but Adams says the program is failing to weed out those who are not American citizens. "The bigger problem is that when they get those drivers licenses, there's a government social services agency that is compelled under motor voter to offer voter registration," Adams says. "For example, I'm representing a client -- the . We're about to file a brief to the Supreme Court that shows actual voter registrations of people who on their voter registration forms that they're not citizens, but they're still getting registered to vote."

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:04+00:00April 8th, 2015|ACRU Commentary, Voter ID|

Judge Rejects Dismissal, Grants ACRU Standing in Texas County Case

A federal judge has ruled that the has standing to sue Zavala County, Texas, over its inflated voter registrations. The ACRU filed the lawsuit in March 2014, citing the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (Motor Voter Law), which requires maintenance of accurate voter rolls. District Judge Alia Moses of the U.S. Western District of Texas, Del Rio Division, on Tuesday issued a court order denying dismissal of the case, which the defendant, Zavala County, had sought. At the same time, the judge granted ACRU organizational standing to pursue the case, in which ACRU alleges that Zavala County has more registered voters than age-eligible citizens.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:39:01+00:00March 31st, 2015|In the Courts, News, Voter Roll Maintenance|

NJ Democratic Official Resigns Over Vote Fraud Ruling

-- The chairwoman of the Democratic Organization in Perth Amboy has resigned after a scathing ruling by a judge that pointed toward pervasive voter fraud in the November city council elections. "This distraction could only hurt our party and as a loyal Democrat it is the best thing to do," Leslie Dominguez-Rodriguez wrote. "The reporting in the media was inaccurate as to what the judge stated in her ruling. In the interest of the party I will resign." Per the party's bylaws, Martin Arroyo will take over as party chairman, Dominguez-Rodriguez said in her letter. On Thursday, Judge Heidi Currier ordered a new election for one City Council seat after finding at least 13 ballots were illegally cast. That margin was greater than the apparent election-night victory of Fernando Gonzalez. Sergio Diaz, the runner-up, filed suit, and succeeded in getting Gonzalez's win tossed out.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:05+00:00March 30th, 2015|News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Wisconsin Attorney General: Voter ID Fight Is Over

It's been a long, costly court battle, but Wisconsin's attorney general says the fight over Voter ID is over -- despite attempts by opponents to find a different legal appeal. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the law requiring Wisconsin voters to show a photo ID. Backers of the law say it's a commonsense bill that makes it easy to vote and hard to cheat. Opponents are still fighting for the estimated 300,000 voters they say can't easily get a state ID. Sunday on "Upfront with Mike Gousha," Attorney General Brad Schimel said challenges to the law are a moot point. "The Supreme Court doesn't make decisions with the intentions of leaving all sorts of loopholes and opportunities to challenge their decision. This has been looked at carefully. If there were arguments that these groups had to make, they should have made them when the case went up the first time," Schimel said.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:43+00:00March 30th, 2015|News, Voter ID|

Supreme Court Deals a Blow to Racial Redistricting

The Supreme Court has dealt a heavy blow to efforts -- often by the Republican Party -- to draw legislative districts that pack black voters into majority black legislative districts in order to elect black representatives. In a case decided today arising out of Alabama state legislative plans, the Supreme Court held that the Voting Rights Act does not require the preservation and protection of legislative districts with percentages of black voters designed to produce black elected officials. Republicans and black politicians often argue that the Voting Rights Act requires line drawers to preserve proportional black representation by creating districts where black candidates are sure to win election. These plans help Republicans by bleaching out surrounding areas helping to elect Republicans. Instead, the Court ruled that what must be preserved is the "ability to elect" minority preferred candidates of choice -- who need not necessarily be minority candidates themselves. This means legislatures can dip below numeric thresholds which create majority black districts, and not necessarily offend the Voting Rights Act.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:05+00:00March 25th, 2015|ACRU Commentary, In the Courts, Redistricting, Voter ID|

Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Wisconsin Voter ID Law

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal to overturn Wisconsin's voter identification law, upsetting civil rights and liberal groups that say the law discourages minorities from casting their ballot. On Monday the justices said, without comment or explanation, that they would not hear an appeal aimed at overturning the voter ID law, which was signed into law in 2011 by Republican Gov. Scott Walker, a potential 2016 presidential contender. The American Civil Liberties Union immediately filed a motion for a stay so as to not allow the law to go immediately into effect. The ACLU challenged the law -- which requires voters to present photo identification before they cast their ballots -- saying it violates the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act against discrimination in voting. In a statement Monday, Mr. Walker praised the justices' decision to let the law stand as "great news for Wisconsin voters" and "a common-sense reform that protects the integrity of our voting process, making it easy to vote and hard to cheat."

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:43+00:00March 24th, 2015|In the Courts, News, Voter ID|

Vote — Or Else: The Siren Call of Universal Suffrage

It's not enough to propose liberal ideas. Eventually, you must use force against your fellow citizens if they don't embrace them. Coercion is at the heart of the liberal enterprise. Hence, President Obama has unveiled his latest plan to fundamentally transform the United States -- mandatory voting. It comes on the heels of his unconstitutional order granting legal status to 5 million illegal immigrants. Coincidence? Ironically, it also landed the very same day that Hillary Clinton floated the idea that summer camps should be created for adults because we have a "fun deficit." Perhaps they will get together and create Camp Chicago, where "fun" activities include voting early and often. To bolster his case, Mr. Obama noted at the town hall in Cleveland on Wednesday that, "Other countries have mandatory voting." Most other countries have voter ID laws too, but I guess that doesn't fit the narrative. "It would be transformative if everybody voted -- that would counteract money more than anything," Mr. Obama said. This is the man who shunned matching funds as hundreds of millions of dollars poured into his campaign, some of it anonymously from outside of the country.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:37:08+00:00March 23rd, 2015|ACRU Commentary, Early Voting, Voter ID|

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