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Holder: Feds Will Sue over Voter ID, but Not over Weed

Mississippi columnist Sid Salter: Seems U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is fully prepared to sue Southern states over Voter ID laws, but is not willing to sue Colorado and Washington in their efforts to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana. Holder's logic is apparently that while states should have lots of leeway on how they deal with enforcement of federal laws against smoking and selling weed, states should not have that same leeway when it comes to efforts to fight perceived voter fraud.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:35:18+00:00September 4th, 2013|ACRU Commentary, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

ACLU of Iowa Asks Judge to Block Effort to Remove Ineligible Voters from Rolls

The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa has asked a Polk County judge to permanently block a state rule guiding the removal of ineligible voters from the rolls. The request for summary judgment in the lawsuit against Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schulz is the latest turn in a case that has gone on for nearly a year. If granted, the rule that Schultz's office enacted earlier this year outlining a process for identifying and removing noncitizens from the state voter rolls would be invalidated.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:37:02+00:00September 4th, 2013|In the Courts, News, Voter ID|

3 Missouri Men Charged with Vote Fraud

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office arrested three men on Aug. 27 on vote fraud charges. Earlier this year, officials at the Board of Elections contacted St. Louis County police about potential vote fraud. An investigation by St. Louis County detectives led them to the suspects.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:19:31+00:00September 4th, 2013|News, Vote Fraud|

3 Set to Plead Guilty in Kentucky Vote Fraud Case

LEXINGTON - A former magistrate and two business owners whose convictions were overturned in a federal vote-buying case plan to plead guilty. The three were among eight Clay County residents convicted in 2010. In overturning their convictions, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the trial judge allowed prosecutors to present evidence that was inadmissible. No date has been set for the re-arraignments. Attorneys for one-time Clay-County Magistrate Stanley Bowling and former garbage-hauling business owners Bart and Debra Morris have filed motions saying the three will plead guilty to a charge they took part in a conspiracy to control local politics by means of vote fraud.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:19:31+00:00September 4th, 2013|News, Vote Fraud|

Two Somali Immigrants Charged with Double Voting in Minnesota

About 50 men and women packed a Rice County courtroom on August 27 as two Somali women pleaded not guilty to charges of voter fraud stemming from the general election last November. Farhiya Abdi Dool, 38, and Amina A Hassan, 31, each face one felony charge of unlawful voting for voting once by absentee ballot and once at a polling place during the 2012 general election. Each woman faces five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for the offense.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:21:01+00:00August 28th, 2013|Absentee / Mail-in Voting, In the Courts, News, Vote Fraud|

Meet the Radical DOJ Lawyers Suing Texas over Voter ID

PJ Media has already reported the long progressive histories of the radical lawyers in the Voting Section, including those who authored the complaint against Texas. A refresher from ACRU Policy Board member J. Christian Adams: Meredith Bell-Platts comes from the ACLU's Voting Rights Project. Anna Baldwin is a former field coordinator for Equality Florida and was a member of Harvard's "Queer Resistance Front." Daniel Freeman was a fellow at the New York Civil Liberties Union and an intern for the ACLU.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:35:18+00:00August 27th, 2013|ACRU Commentary, Voter ID|

Holder Tangles with Texas

The Justice Department's case distorts the effect of Voter-ID laws and misinterprets the Voting Rights Act. Hans von Spakovsky explains.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:09+00:00August 27th, 2013|ACRU Commentary, In the Courts, Voter ID|

Kansas, Arizona Sue U.S. over Citizenship Issue

Kansas and Arizona have sued the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, seeking a court order forcing it to amend voter registration forms for those states so that people signing up are required to prove they're citizens.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:28:56+00:00August 27th, 2013|In the Courts, News, Proof of Citizenship|

Holder Sues Texas to Stop Voter ID

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sued Texas on Aug. 22, escalating the battle over voting rights and saying the Legislature was intentionally trying to discriminate against Hispanics when it redrew its congressional district maps and passed a voter-ID law. Read more: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/22/holder-sues-texas-stop-voter-id-law/#ixzz2d6yRm772 Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:35:18+00:00August 26th, 2013|In the Courts, News, Voter ID|

Texas Woman Charged with Voting 5 Times under Five Names

Federal authorities have arrested a former Brownsville woman for allegedly voting five times by absentee ballot under five different names in a Cameron County runoff election in 2012.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:14:27+00:00August 26th, 2013|Absentee / Mail-in Voting, In the Courts, News|

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