Here's a question for the media from Newsbusters' Kevin Mooney: "If it's racist to ask voters for a form of identification at their polling place, why isn't it then racist to also ask for identification before stepping inside a plane, or into a federal building, filling out a job application or opening up a bank account? "That's an obvious question that the Los Angeles Times has declined to ask so far."
An Ohio state lawmaker wants to see early voting cut in half. State Rep. John Becker, a Clermont County Republican, thinks the current 35 days is too long. Becker points out that there are already 13 hours of voting on Election Day and you can vote absentee by mail in addition to the two weeks of in-person voting he would still allow for under his bill. It would not include any weekend voting hours. Democrats oppose the bill. Read more: https://www.buckeyecountry105.com/pages/LocalNews.html?feed=226193&article=11596348#ixzz2d6pCX6f6
MOBILE -- U.S. Postal Service officials have launched an investigation into the mailing of several absentee ballots for the Mobile municipal elections, after a postal worker reported what appeared to be voter fraud. Postal officials questioned the mailing of numerous ballots bearing similar handwriting, as well as multiple ballots from the same voters being mailed almost daily.
A politically polarizing new election law will get its first test run during the Sept. 10 recall elections in Pueblo and Colorado Springs. Same-day voter registration became mandatory with an elections overhaul bill that was signed into law in May. Democrats say allowing voters to register on election day provides greater access to the polls; Republicans say it will lead to rampant election fraud.
Hillary Clinton, the former first lady and Senator used her first big policy speech since leaving the State Department to portray American election laws as fundamentally racist. A Wall Street Journal editorial provides the eye-opening details.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) on August 12 signed into law one of the nation's most wide-ranging Voter ID laws. The move is likely to touch off a major court battle over voting rights, and the Justice Department is weighing a challenge to the new law.
CORALVILLE, Iowa --- After a couple of "hiccups" getting started, a state investigation into voter fraud is "moving in the right direction" and Iowans will begin seeing results soon, according to Secretary of State Matt Schultz.
Houston County -- An investigation is underway by the sheriff's office into allegations of illegal absentee voting in the Dothan City election in District 2 on August 6.
A former southeastern Kentucky judge and five others have been released from prison until they are retried in October on federal charges that they engineered a vote-buying scheme that stretched across three election cycles.
RALEIGH -- An NBC affiliate TV station says that "only" 121 vote fraud cases from 2012 show that vote fraud is not an issue: "One of the more compelling arguments for voter identification is the suppression of voter fraud. But for North Carolina, the number of cases of voter fraud reported by the state Board of Elections is minimal. In 2012, nearly 7 million ballots were cast in the general and two primary elections. Of those 6,947,317 ballots, the state Board of Elections said 121 alleged cases of voter fraud were referred to the appropriate district attorney's office.