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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|

Wisconsin Is Ground Zero in Voter ID Fight

Wisconsin is not only an electoral battleground state, it is ground zero in the fight to ensure honest elections. Failing to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker in 2012 or to defeat him in the 2014 election, union-backed legal groups are continuing their efforts to try to make voter fraud easier to commit. Rebuffed by the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a petition at the U.S. Supreme Court asking the court to overturn Wisconsin's Voter ID law. On Thursday, Attorney General Brad Schimel's communications director Anne E. Schwartz responded to an email, saying only that, "We will continue to defend the Wisconsin Voter ID Law." Enacted in 2011, Act 23 requires voters to show one of several forms of photo identification before voting. Wisconsin is one of 17 states that have added a voter ID law following the Supreme Court's upholding of Indiana's photo ID law in 2008. A total of 34 states now require some form of ID to vote, according to the ACLU's petition.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:44+00:00January 19th, 2015|ACRU Commentary, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

Grand Jury Recommends Charges Against Pa. Attorney General

A grand jury has recommended criminal charges against Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane. The grand jury found that she leaked secret grand jury information to a newspaper in an effort to smear political enemies. PJ Media has been covering Kane's refusal to prosecute Pennsylvania Democrats who took bribes in order to oppose photo voter identification legislation in Pennsylvania.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:37:08+00:00January 9th, 2015|ACRU Commentary, Voter ID|

New Mexico Legislator Seeks New Voter ID Law

ALBUQUERQUE - A state legislator is pushing for voter identification requirements in New Mexico. Cities and state around the country have enacted voter ID legislation. It's required in Albuquerque during city elections, and people in Hobbs recently passed a similar law. "Anybody who's not voting accurately by who they say they are, that's too many," Republican Rep. James Smith told KRQE News 13. Smith filed a bill that would require voters to produce government-issued photo IDs with some exceptions. People who don't bring their ID could still vote if they gave a social security number and date of birth. Smith's proposal would change not only how you vote in person, but also by mail. "This bill covers absentee ballots as well, where you have to prove who you are over absentee ballots and if there is a place for voter fraud, it's more likely in the absentee or the registration than it is in in person voting," Smith said.

ACRU Staff2020-05-03T23:34:44+00:00January 5th, 2015|Absentee / Mail-in Voting, News, Vote Fraud, Voter ID|

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