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Wisconsin Man Charged with Multiple Counts of Vote Fraud

In one of the biggest cases of voter fraud ever in Wisconsin, a Milwaukee area health insurance executive has been charged with casting multiple votes for Republican candidates -- including Gov. Scott Walker in the 2012 recall election. Robert Monroe of Shorewood was charged Friday with 13 felonies related to his voting a dozen times in five elections between 2011 and 2012, using his own name along with his son's and his girlfriend's son. https://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/writers/mike_ivey/voter-fraud-case-targets-scott-walker-backer/article_7afa077e-faf2-11e3-b655-0019bb2963f4.html

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:07+00:00June 24th, 2014|News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Mississippi Sails Through Voter ID Test in Primary

Mississippi's new voter ID law caused few problems on June 3 in the first election since its controversial passage, with only one report of a voter turned away for lack of identification. A Pike County poll worker mistakenly told a person he couldn't cast a ballot without an ID, said county Election Commissioner Trudy Berger. "It was a misunderstanding," Berger said. "We trained on it that nobody is ever told they can't vote, period. As soon as we heard that had happened, we sent an election commissioner down there to solve the problem." According to the new law, voters must present a driver's license or other government-issued ID to cast a ballot through the normal process. Those without ID can vote by affidavit ballot, after which they have five business days to show an acceptable form of photo ID, or apply for a Mississippi voter ID card, at the circuit clerk's office. The Secretary of State's Office was notified of the incident, Berger said. But beyond that, the agency had few calls about voter ID issues.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:46+00:00June 13th, 2014|News, Voter ID|

Battleground Texas: Inside the Fight to Turn the State Blue

McAllen, Texas (MSNBC) -- Battleground Texas, a Democratic group working to turn the Lone Star State blue, gathered a group of 20 or so young volunteers in a college classroom here last weekend just a few miles from the Mexican border. They came to be trained in the nuts and bolts of political organizing--how to register new voters, set up phone banks and door-to-door canvasses on behalf of Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate for governor. But, over a lunch of tamales and salsa, an organizer asked participants, nearly all Hispanic, to share the personal stories that had led them to get involved.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:59+00:00June 5th, 2014|ACRU Commentary, Voter ID|

Alabama Gave Out 2,300 Free Photo IDs Before Primary

MONTGOMERY-- Over 2,300 free photo voter ID cards have been produced in Alabama leading up to Tuesday's primary elections, Secretary of State Jim Bennett announced. Photo voter identification cards can be obtained by a voter up to, on and even after the day of the election. There is no cut-off date to receive a free photo voter ID. Bennett said he hoped to see many voters at the polls on June 3 and predicted that 25- 27% of registered voters will show up to vote. In the last gubernatorial election for Alabama in 2010, there was 32% turnout in that primary.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:59+00:00June 3rd, 2014|News, Voter ID|

Mississippi Using New Voter ID Law in Primaries

JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi will use its new voter-identification law for the first time Tuesday, culminating a long political fight in a state with a troubled past of voting rights suppression. People will be required to show a driver's license or other government-issued photo identification at the polls during the Republican and Democratic primaries for U.S. House and Senate.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:46+00:00June 3rd, 2014|News, Voter ID|

DOJ Absent from Blatant Voting Bias Case

Judge Ramona Manglona of the federal district court for the Northern Mariana Islands just threw out a blatantly unconstitutional provision of the territorial government that strictly limited registration and voting for a referendum to only those "persons of Northern Marianas descent." The Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) defines persons of Northern Marianas descent as those who are "at least one-quarter Northern Marianas Chamorro or Northern Marianas Carolinian blood or a combination thereof or an adopted child of a person of Northern Marianas descent if adopted while under the age of eighteen years." One is considered a "full-blooded" Chamorro or Carolinian if "born or domiciled" in the territory by 1950. There is no question that CNMI's voting prohibitions are racially discriminatory. In fact, they are reminiscent of the odious "one-drop rule" of racial segregation codes or the First Regulation to the Reichs Citizenship Law of Nov. 14, 1935, which similarly defined Jews based on their ancestry. Yet John Davis was forced to bring this suit at his own expense, with his own lawyer, because the Justice Department was nowhere to be found. It had no interest in filing a lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act against a blatantly discriminatory and repugnant law that prevented John Davis from voting because he doesn't have the right "blood" quantum.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:29:06+00:00May 30th, 2014|ACRU Commentary, Proof of Citizenship|

Report Uncovers Double Voting in Florida, North Carolina

RALEIGH, NC -- Double voting among Florida and North Carolina (or FLANC) voters appears to be a crime committed equally by both political parties, according to a technical report produced by Voter Integrity Project and released May 21 to Legislators and election officials. "This report is a brief but dense description of the research led by our Research Director and a team of 22 volunteer researchers spread throughout the state," said Jay DeLancy, Executive Director of VIP. "It took 16 months and three iterations to achieve the level of quality we needed and the results were outstanding." Of the 149 double votes the group reported last month to election officials, there were 38 Republicans, 34 Democrats, 27 Unaffiliated and one Libertarian. Several of whom had voted in multiple elections. "We need to remind everyone: this research points to vote fraud," said DeLancy, "but cannot determine who actually cast the second vote. Some will be the same person voting twice, but others will involve identity theft, which is easily committed against voters who moved away without notifying their Election Boards."

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:59+00:00May 28th, 2014|ACRU Commentary, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

308,000 Virginia Voters Registered in Other States, Report Shows

Some 308,000 Virginia voters are also registered elsewhere, according to an analysis of 22 states' election records. The finding follows Watchdog.org's report of 44,000 people who appear to be registered in both Virginia and Maryland. The latest survey found the 308,000 double registrations by matching names, birth dates and the last four digits of Social Security numbers. The Virginia Voters Alliance, which reported the results, identified "big gaps" in the voter-registration process.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:59+00:00May 27th, 2014|News, Voter ID|

Columnist: Scrapping Early Voting Means Less Time for Electoral Mischief

Ballots cast today are under scrutiny, and with 2014 mid-term elections fast approaching, we must be aware of potential abuses of our most basic right. We saw with the 2012 general election a glut of voter fraud. From Florida and Ohio to Pennsylvania and Texas, there have been reports of voting machine malfunctions, dead people on voter rolls and 99 percent of votes cast going to President Obama in some counties. This should be a concern for both parties and a non-partisan issue because no freedom-loving patriot wants the outcome of an election to be falsely skewed.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:07+00:00May 22nd, 2014|ACRU Commentary, Early Voting, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Judges and Voter ID

On April 29, federal-district-court judge Lynn Adelman -- a Clinton appointee, former Democratic state senator, and former Legal Aid Society lawyer -- held that Wisconsin's voter-ID requirement violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, because it places "an unjustified burden on the right to vote." This decision has gotten a great deal of attention in the mainstream press (or the drive-by media, as Rush Limbaugh likes to calls them).What got almost no attention was a decision by another federal district court in Tennessee on February 20 over that state's voter-ID law. In that case, Judge Ronnie Greer upheld voter ID as constitutional.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:46+00:00May 21st, 2014|ACRU Commentary, In the Courts, Voter ID|

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