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Congressman Seeks to Add Florida to National Voter Database

U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch is calling on Florida election officials to participate in a national database aimed at preventing voter fraud -- amid reports that more than two dozen people possibly voted twice in the 2014 general election. The West Boca Democrat penned a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner on Tuesday, urging him to sign up for the Electronic Registration Information Center, a database used by 15 states and the District of Columbia. Deutch says the system known as ERIC would improve the accuracy of voter rolls by allowing Florida to compare its list of voters with other states' at a minimal cost of $50,000. "We have a record when it comes to our elections that is obviously not one we are terribly proud of," he said. "I can't understand why we wouldn't join an effort with a nationwide database that can combat problems of people being registered to vote in two states." Deutch's calls come after election supervisors in Broward and Palm Beach counties launched probes in January into reports of as many as 32 people voting twice in the 2014 general election -- once in Florida and once in their home state up North. It's a felony to vote in the same federal election twice.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:35:34+00:00February 17th, 2016|News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Voter Fraud in the U.S.: Documented

Refuting the contention that vote fraud is rare, a compilation by Discoverthenetworks.org of thousands of incidences of vote fraud shows why voter photo ID laws are needed now more than ever.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:33+00:00February 2nd, 2016|Expert Reports and Studies, Resources, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Reports of Voters Casting Ballots Twice Are Probed in Palm Beach, Broward Counties

Fourteen Palm Beach County voters appear to have cast ballots twice in the 2014 general election -- once in Florida and once up North, Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher said Wednesday. A Coral Springs database analyst brought the issue to Bucher's attention, and he says he has uncovered dozens of other instances across Florida of people voting twice. "We talk a lot about voter fraud," said Andrew Ladanowski, a data analyst and information technology consultant at AddinSolutions. "Everyone accuses everyone of it, but no one has investigated cross-state voter fraud." Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes said Wednesday her office also is looking into information Ladanowski provided that up to 18 people voted twice there. Election supervisors in Florida don't have access to a national database to check other states' voting records, making it difficult to detect people who vote twice, said Brian Corley, president of the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections and Supervisor of Elections in Pasco County.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:33+00:00January 15th, 2016|News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Judge Rejects Insanity Defense in Voter Fraud Case

MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) - A judge is not buying a suburban Milwaukee man's claim that he was insane when he voted 13 times in six elections in 2011 and '12. 51-year-old Robert Monroe of Shorewood pleaded no contest Monday to six felony election fraud charges. After a two-day sanity trial, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Dennis Cimpl ruled Wednesday that Monroe knew he was voting illegally -- and he'll go to prison instead of a mental institution when he's sentenced February 26th. The judge refused to accept a doctor's claim that Monroe had a dissociative disorder when he voted five times for Governor Scott Walker in his 2012 recall election.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:22:08+00:00January 15th, 2016|In the Courts, News, Vote Fraud|

Missouri Legislators Renew Push for Voter Photo ID Law

EFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Republican Missouri legislative leaders, backed by veto-proof majorities, will try again in 2016 to require voters to show photo identification at the polls, despite numerous failed attempts over the past decade. Sen. Will Kraus, a Lee's Summit Republican running for secretary of state, pre-filed a proposed constitutional amendment to allow for photo identification and a bill that would require voters to present government-issued photo ID. GOP House members pre-filed similar measures. A change to the state's constitution would be necessary before implementing a photo ID law because the Missouri Supreme Court struck down a similar measure in 2006 as unconstitutional. Kraus said photo ID protects against people fraudulently impersonating other voters. Fraud has not been a significant problem in Missouri, according to Democratic Secretary of State Jason Kander, whose office supervises elections. Kraus' proposal would allow people to obtain free state photo ID cards if they don't already have a driver's license, military ID or other government-issued identification. "My goal would be to make sure that we secure the election process and then make sure we do not disenfranchise anyone," Kraus said. He cited a mayoral election in April in Kinloch, a St. Louis suburb. The city attorney served the incoming mayor, who won by 20 votes in an election in which only 58 voted, with impeachment papers after the city claimed 27 voters were illegally registered. "That just shows you that there are people that would like to cheat elections," Kraus said.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:35:34+00:00December 28th, 2015|News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Study Says More Non-Citizens on Voter Rolls than Thought

The former head of a Washington think tank specializing in immigration issues says that voter registration numbers in Texas and elsewhere may be inflated because of the presence of non-citizens on voter rolls. David Simcox, former executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, released a study Tuesday afternoon that said an estimated 1.8 million to 2.7 million non-citizen immigrants in the Unites States may be illegally registered to vote, thereby potentially influencing the outcome of the upcoming presidential and congressional elections. The report also estimated that anywhere from 161,000 to 333,000 non-citizens may be registered to vote in Texas. Calling the state's political culture "a mix of the worst of Old South Dixieland politics and Latin American politics," Mr. Simcox said Texas has a political history marked by election fraud, sometimes involving Mexican or Mexican-American voters. Using Texas population estimates from the 2000 census, Mr. Simcox said his study found a disproportionately high number of registered voters when compared to the total number of eligible voters in six major metropolitan counties and five counties near the Mexican border, all having a high percentage of non-citizen residents.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:36:33+00:00December 21st, 2015|News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

The New Frontiers of Vote Fraud

By Barbara Joanna Lucas Capital Research Center The Left seeks power, and at least for the time being, that requires winning elections. So the Left pursues every scheme it can concoct to boost votes for its favored causes and candidates. This report details how the Left not only opposes every law, like voter ID, that aims to ensure honest elections, it is also passing laws and regulations that aim to swamp the polls with Left-friendly voters. And so non-citizens, and illegal immigrants, and underage voters are being welcomed to voting booths, while voter registration and even voting itself are on the road to being made compulsory for every person with a heartbeat. Where does this notion that anyone with a pulse must vote come from? Why is it that even the most modest measures to ensure an election has integrity provoke hysteria from the Left and shameless comparisons to Jim Crow measures that unconstitutionally denied large numbers of Americans the right to vote? The Left has long used shrill rhetoric to stifle many electoral integrity laws across the country. More recently, it has become increasingly emboldened as it parades illegal voters to the polls. There is a simple explanation: Voter fraud and illegal immigrant votes have historically favored Democrats, as we shall see.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:37:08+00:00December 15th, 2015|ACRU Commentary, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

NAACP Sues Alabama over Voter ID Law

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A civil rights group on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging Alabama's photo voter ID law as an infringement on voting rights and an attempt to suppress the influence of black and Hispanic voters. The Greater Birmingham Ministries and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed the suit Wednesday in Birmingham federal court. Alabama's law requires voters to show a valid state-issued photo identification at the polls in order to vote. The law went into effect in the 2014 elections. "It is appalling that, 60 years after Rosa Parks' courageous protest in Montgomery and 50 years after voting rights activists marched in Selma, the Alabama Legislature continues to pass laws that are designed to deprive people of color of their basic civil rights," said Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The lawsuit is the latest attempt to roll back voter ID requirements implemented in Republican-controlled states. The U.S. Justice Department challenged photo identification requirements in North Carolina and Texas, and a federal appeals court in August found the Texas law to be discriminatory. States that have implemented the requirements say the measures are needed to curb voter fraud. Opponents, often Democrats, say the requirement presents a barrier to the ballot box for poor, minority and elderly voters. The lawsuit contends that Alabama politicians who created and backed the law knew that black and Latino voters "disproportionately lack the required photo ID." Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said his office will review the lawsuit. "Voting rights are important to every citizen, and it is imperative that every Alabamian who is eligible to vote have the ability to vote," Bentley said in a statement. "A photo ID protects the process of voting and ensures fair elections are held."

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:42+00:00December 7th, 2015|News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Hillary Clinton Warns Black Audience over Voter ID Laws

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton warns black legal activists that "there is mischief afoot" when it comes to voting rights issues in the United States. Speaking at the National Bar Association's 60th anniversary celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Montgomery bus boycott on Dec. 1 in Alabama, Clinton appealed to the conspiracy-minded instincts of those who believe that photo ID laws represent a Republican effort to suppress the vote, rather than a way to prevent voter fraud. "I thought we'd solved that problem," Clinton said about voting access. "Unfortunately, there is mischief afoot. Some people are just determined to keep other Americans from voting." Clinton cited the closing of some DMV offices in Alabama, as part of necessary budget cuts, as a vote-suppressing plot, despite evidence to the contrary. Clinton was introduced at the event by Benjamin Crump, the high-profile lawyer for the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown families who was recently named president of the National Bar Association following his headline-grabbing advocacy work

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:42+00:00December 7th, 2015|News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

ACRU Sues Notorious Mississippi County

ALEXANDRIA, VA (Nov. 16, 2015) -- The on Thursday, Nov. 12, filed a lawsuit against a fourth Mississippi county for its corrupted voter registration rolls. This time, it was against Noxubee County, which has a long history of vote fraud and voter intimidation. As with the other three counties, voter rolls maintained by Noxubee contain more people registered to vote than citizens eligible to vote, according to the lawsuit, filed on ACRU's behalf by the Public Interest Legal Foundation. The complaint argues that Noxubee County's election commission is violating Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). It was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Northern Division. The ACRU's Mississippi legal campaign is having a demonstrative effect on other counties. New data show that since 2010, the number of counties with more registered voters than eligible residents has dropped considerably. In 2013, the ACRU won consent decrees in federal court for Walthall and Jefferson Davis counties to clean up their voter rolls. It was the first time in history that a private party had sued under the NVRA (better known as Motor Voter) and reached a consent decree to compel counties to clean up their voter rolls. In July, the ACRU sued Clarke County for having corrupt voter rolls. ACRU's review of databases revealed that as of 2015, more than 110 percent of Noxubee's voting-eligible citizens are registered. This strongly indicates the county has failed to purge the names of people who died, moved away or were convicted of disenfranchising felonies.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:38:02+00:00November 18th, 2015|ACRU Litigation News, In the Courts, News, Press Releases, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

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