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Report: DHS Adding Millions of ‘New Americans’ to Vote in 2016
There are millions of green card holders in the United States, and sources inside the Department of Homeland Security say a new program is urging them to become citizens in time to vote in the 2016 election. Of the 20 states with the highest green card population, 14 are holding Senate races in 2016, so millions of new voters could dramatically impact the election. J. Christian Adams said on "Fox and Friends Weekend" that this is a case of Democrats using the levers of power to preserve power. "What they're doing is doing a full-court press on getting these aliens - 9,000,000 of them - registered as citizens in time for the 2016 election," Adams said. "They're redirecting resources of DHS to this effort, this campaign." Adams noted that an internal memo from Leon Rodriguez, the director and co-chair of the DHS' "Task Force on New Americans," said, "This report outlines an immigrant integration plan that will advance our nation's global competitiveness and ensure that the people who live in this country can fully participate in their communities." "They say it nakedly in this letter that this is all about politics," Adams stated.
ACRU Supreme Court Brief Reveals Non-Citizens Registering to Vote
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 21, 2015) --- Non-citizens, even some admitting so on their application forms, are registering to vote under current federal law, as exposed in documents submitted today by the (ACRU) to the U.S. Supreme Court. According to ACRU's brief in Kobach v. U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), of thirteen federal voter registration forms provided to the Court by the ACRU, "Four of the individuals actually checked 'no' on the citizenship question, six checked 'no' and 'yes', and the remaining three left the checkbox blank entirely." Nevertheless, they were all registered to vote. "The left is registering non-citizens to vote every day of the week, using the federal form. Every ineligible vote cancels out the vote of an American citizen," said ACRU Chairman Susan A. Carleson. "Our election process is becoming a mockery. The states need to be allowed to require proof of citizenship to register to vote."
North Carolina Back in the Voter ID Pack
RALEIGH - The new election laws the Republican-led General Assembly passed in 2013 in many ways put North Carolina more on par with other states across the country. Up to that point, the Tar Heel State had some of the least restrictive election laws. Now, it probably falls somewhere in the middle of the pack. Here's how the state compares today, according to information from the National Conference of State Legislatures: Voter ID: North Carolina is one of 34 states that have passed voter identification requirements, and such requirements are in force in 32 states. Pennsylvania's voter ID law was struck down and won't be appealed. North Carolina's takes effect in 2016, barring action by the courts to the contrary.
Vote Buying Is at Center of Kentucky Judge-Executive Case
FRANKFORT (AP) - On election day in Magoffin County, Jerry Adams said his second cousin drove him to the local Save-a-Lot and gave him $25 to vote for Michael "Doc" Hardin for county judge executive - a key office that controls a lot of jobs in this economically depressed area. Hardin would go on to win the election by 28 votes over Republican challenger John Montgomery. But Montgomery would challenge the results in court, and in February a circuit court judge took the unusual step of declaring the office vacant after ruling that Adams and at least three others were paid for their votes while other voters benefited from property improvements from county workers prior to the election. On Tuesday, the state Court of Appeals was to weigh whether to uphold that decision in a case that displays eastern Kentucky's century-old history of vote-buying in local elections. State and federal officials have a number of election fraud cases every year, so many that the Attorney General's office audits election results of randomly selected counties each year and state and federal officials monitor elections through the Kentucky Election Integrity Task Force.
Judge Rejects Dismissal, Grants ACRU Standing in Texas County Case
A federal judge has ruled that the has standing to sue Zavala County, Texas, over its inflated voter registrations. The ACRU filed the lawsuit in March 2014, citing the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (Motor Voter Law), which requires maintenance of accurate voter rolls. District Judge Alia Moses of the U.S. Western District of Texas, Del Rio Division, on Tuesday issued a court order denying dismissal of the case, which the defendant, Zavala County, had sought. At the same time, the judge granted ACRU organizational standing to pursue the case, in which ACRU alleges that Zavala County has more registered voters than age-eligible citizens.
NJ Democratic Official Resigns Over Vote Fraud Ruling
-- The chairwoman of the Democratic Organization in Perth Amboy has resigned after a scathing ruling by a judge that pointed toward pervasive voter fraud in the November city council elections. "This distraction could only hurt our party and as a loyal Democrat it is the best thing to do," Leslie Dominguez-Rodriguez wrote. "The reporting in the media was inaccurate as to what the judge stated in her ruling. In the interest of the party I will resign." Per the party's bylaws, Martin Arroyo will take over as party chairman, Dominguez-Rodriguez said in her letter. On Thursday, Judge Heidi Currier ordered a new election for one City Council seat after finding at least 13 ballots were illegally cast. That margin was greater than the apparent election-night victory of Fernando Gonzalez. Sergio Diaz, the runner-up, filed suit, and succeeded in getting Gonzalez's win tossed out.
Wisconsin Attorney General: Voter ID Fight Is Over
It's been a long, costly court battle, but Wisconsin's attorney general says the fight over Voter ID is over -- despite attempts by opponents to find a different legal appeal. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the law requiring Wisconsin voters to show a photo ID. Backers of the law say it's a commonsense bill that makes it easy to vote and hard to cheat. Opponents are still fighting for the estimated 300,000 voters they say can't easily get a state ID. Sunday on "Upfront with Mike Gousha," Attorney General Brad Schimel said challenges to the law are a moot point. "The Supreme Court doesn't make decisions with the intentions of leaving all sorts of loopholes and opportunities to challenge their decision. This has been looked at carefully. If there were arguments that these groups had to make, they should have made them when the case went up the first time," Schimel said.
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Wisconsin Voter ID Law
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal to overturn Wisconsin's voter identification law, upsetting civil rights and liberal groups that say the law discourages minorities from casting their ballot. On Monday the justices said, without comment or explanation, that they would not hear an appeal aimed at overturning the voter ID law, which was signed into law in 2011 by Republican Gov. Scott Walker, a potential 2016 presidential contender. The American Civil Liberties Union immediately filed a motion for a stay so as to not allow the law to go immediately into effect. The ACLU challenged the law -- which requires voters to present photo identification before they cast their ballots -- saying it violates the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act against discrimination in voting. In a statement Monday, Mr. Walker praised the justices' decision to let the law stand as "great news for Wisconsin voters" and "a common-sense reform that protects the integrity of our voting process, making it easy to vote and hard to cheat."
ACRU Wins Consent Decree to Clean Up Texas County’s Voter Rolls
SANDERSON, TX (March 18, 2015) --- The United States District Court in Del Rio, Texas, has entered a consent decree requiring a Texas county to maintain clean voter rolls. Terrell County had more registered voters than age-eligible residents. In the decree, signed by Judge Alia Moses, Terrell County officials agree to abide by federal law and clean the voter registration rolls of deceased persons, former residents and otherwise ineligible voters. "We're very pleased," said ACRU Chairman and CEO Susan A. Carleson. "The Left's 'Battleground Texas' campaign is counting on vote fraud to 'turn Texas blue' and end national two-party competitiveness, but they will have a tough time if all Texas counties clean up their voter rolls."
Supreme Court to Decide Whether to Hear Wisconsin Voter ID Case
Legal challenges to Wisconsin's voter photo identification law have been underway for four years. Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court might decide whether to rule on the law's constitutionality. Justices blocked the photo ID law last fall - just weeks before the November election. Now, some organizers wonder if the justices could do an about-face, with only weeks left before next month's election.