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ACRU Wins Consent Decree to Clean Up Texas County’s Voter Rolls

SANDERSON, TX (March 18, 2015) --- The United States District Court in Del Rio, Texas, has entered a consent decree requiring a Texas county to maintain clean voter rolls. Terrell County had more registered voters than age-eligible residents. In the decree, signed by Judge Alia Moses, Terrell County officials agree to abide by federal law and clean the voter registration rolls of deceased persons, former residents and otherwise ineligible voters. "We're very pleased," said ACRU Chairman and CEO Susan A. Carleson. "The Left's 'Battleground Texas' campaign is counting on vote fraud to 'turn Texas blue' and end national two-party competitiveness, but they will have a tough time if all Texas counties clean up their voter rolls."

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:58+00:00March 19th, 2015|ACRU Litigation News, In the Courts, News, Press Releases, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Supreme Court to Decide Whether to Hear Wisconsin Voter ID Case

Legal challenges to Wisconsin's voter photo identification law have been underway for four years. Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court might decide whether to rule on the law's constitutionality. Justices blocked the photo ID law last fall - just weeks before the November election. Now, some organizers wonder if the justices could do an about-face, with only weeks left before next month's election.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:43+00:00March 13th, 2015|In the Courts, News, Voter ID|

WSJ Writer Rejects False Narrative on Voter ID Laws

George Evans, the mayor of Selma, Ala., steered clear of playing the race card in a recent interview, writes the Wall Street Journal's Jason Riley. In his opinion piece, Riley highlights the fact that Mayor George Evans did not give in to a National Public Radio interviewer's tactic of tying Selma's history dealing with race issues to today's race relations. "Ferguson, Mo., in 2015 is not Selma, Ala., in 1965. Black people in America today are much more likely to experience racial preferences than racial slights," Riley writes. "The violent crime that is driving the black incarceration rate spiked after the civil-rights victories of the 1960s, not before. And if voter-ID laws threaten the black franchise, no one seems to have told the black electorate. According to the Census Bureau, the black voter-turnout rate in 2012 exceeded the white turnout rate, even in states with the strictest voter-ID requirements."

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:44+00:00March 13th, 2015|ACRU Commentary, Voter ID|

Another Voter Fraud Arrest in Texas Border County

Texas authorities have formally charged two men accused of cheating during the 2012 Democratic Party 2012 Primary near the Texas border. The most recent arrest was carried out by the Cameron County District Attorney's office after a grand jury handed down indictments against two separate individuals, information provided by the Cameron County DA's office to Breitbart Texas revealed. One of the defendants has been identified as Jose Angel Garza. He was formally charged on a five count indictment on the charge of tampering with a marked ballot. Rafael Angel Elizondo has been charged with one count of the same charge for an offense that allegedly took place in July 2012, the information provided to Breitbart Texas revealed. DA's investigators have arrested Garza but Elizondo is in New York. Elizondo is expected to return to the border community where he will be arrested, the DA's office said. The investigation into the voter fraud is being carried out by the Texas Attorney General's Office in conjunction with the DA's office who announced that more indictments could follow. As Breitbart Texas previously reported, the Texas border has been the scene of multiple voter fraud arrests in connection with the 2012 Democrat primaries and the presidential election.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:58+00:00March 2nd, 2015|News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Colorado Democrats Kill Voter Photo ID Bills

DENVER - Colorado lawmakers on Feb. 18 once again took up the issue of photo identification as a requirement to vote, killing two measures that would have mandated the practice. The Republican-backed measures were killed by the Democratic-controlled House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee on party-line votes. Similar attempts in recent years at the Legislature also failed. Both bills addressed same-day voter registration, enacted by a Democratic-backed measure in 2013 that made sweeping reforms to the state's election laws, including allowing voters to register on Election Day.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:35:35+00:00February 23rd, 2015|News, Same-Day Registration, Voter ID|

Nebraska Legislature Shelves Voter ID Bill

LINCOLN -- A bill that would require voters to show government-issued photo identification is dead for this year. Nebraska lawmakers voted 25-15 on Feb. 18 on a motion to bracket -- or table -- Legislative Bill 111 until the end of the session. The vote ended what had promised to be a four-day filibuster. State Sen. Tyson Larson of O'Neill, who introduced the measure, said he was disappointed. He promised to keep working on the issue and perhaps bring it up again next year.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:44+00:00February 23rd, 2015|News, Voter ID|

Missouri House Passes Photo Voter ID Bills

The Missouri House has passed two pieces of legislation to require voters to show government-approved photo identification at the polls.The first, House Joint Resolution 1, is a proposed constitutional amendment to allow for a photo ID law to be passed by the legislature. It would also have to be passed by Missouri voters. The second, House Bill 30, would be the implementing bill placing photo ID requirements in state law. House Democrats and black caucus members sharply criticized the proposal on Wednesday, calling it racist and saying it would amount to a poll tax on people without a photo ID. Shamed Dogan of Ballwin, the only black Republican in the Missouri legislature, strongly disagreed during today's final debate. "There's no truth to these allegations," Dogan said, "to say that other members of this body are trying to pass legislation for some sort of insidious reasons, racially discriminatory reasons, it's out of line (and) it's really uncalled for."

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:44+00:00February 21st, 2015|News, Voter ID|

MSNBC Misleads about Woman ‘Arrested for Voting’; It Was Perjury

In his February 9 story on MSNBC's The Reid Report, headlined "Counted Out," network correspondent Zachary Roth offered viewers a misleading look at the plight of an Iowa woman -- now suing the state for restoration of her voting rights -- who "had been charged with illegal voting." "For a lot of people, this sounds insane, the idea that this woman, that people would try to jail her for thinking she could vote again," anchor Joy-Ann Reid told Roth after the conclusion of his pre-taped segment. But in point of fact, the woman in question, a convicted drug offender named Kelli Jo Griffin, was prosecuted last March for committing perjury by virtue of allegedly lying about her voting disqualification on a voter registration form.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:05+00:00February 10th, 2015|ACRU Commentary, Voter ID|

Indiana Voter ID Law for Absentee Ballots Advances

INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana legislative committee has backed a proposal that would require the use of voter identification numbers for mail-in absentee ballots. The Senate Elections Committee voted 5-4 Monday to advance the bill. Sponsor Republican Sen. Mike Young of Indianapolis says requiring the identification number will help prevent instances of voter fraud. The number would be available via a state phone line and website.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:44+00:00February 9th, 2015|Absentee / Mail-in Voting, News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

West Va. Voter ID Law Bills Introduced

MARTINSBURG -- Two bills have been introduced in the state Legislature that would require voters to produce a photo ID to vote: House Bill 2092 and Senate Bill 340. State Delegate Tim Manchin, D-Marion, is the sponsor of HB2092. He is the minority chair of the House Judiciary Committee. "I think the general public thinks it's a good idea to require people to have an ID to vote," Manchin said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "People are concerned that people who are not qualified to vote are voting."

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:44+00:00January 29th, 2015|News, Voter ID|

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