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Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., introduced a bill in Congress Wednesday that would prohibit all states from requiring photo identification at the polls. “The Voter Access Protection Act” comes at a time when states across the nation, including Minnesota, have moved to establish photo ID laws as a protection against voter fraud. Legislatures in 20 states introduced such a bill in 2011, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. “This legislation would prohibit one of the most pernicious forms of voter suppression, requiring a strict photo identification card at the polls,” said the bill’s co-author, Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., in...

Approximately $18 million worth of stimulus funds went to Americans who are dead, according to report released by the Social Security Administration's inspector general released Thursday. More than 89,000 payments worth $250 each, taken from the $787 billion stimulus package, were doled out to either dead people or prison inmates. Seventeen thousand incarcerated Americans received an aggregate $4.3 million from the economic relief package. According to the report, the prisoners received the government money because they had been eligible for Social Security benefits before being sent to jail. Overall, the stimulus — which has become a hot-button political issue heading...

Less than two months before the general election, Florida's voter registration rolls still include thousands of dead people and felons who by law should have been removed. The felons include some of South Florida's highest-profile convicts — Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein and nine former elected officials caught up in recent corruption scandals. At least 14,000 registered voters are dead, some for as long as two decades.

MEXICO CITY—Gunmen from a drug cartel appear to have massacred 72 migrants from Central and South America who were on their way to the U.S., a grisly event that marks the single biggest killing in Mexico's war on organized crime.

Last week I wrote an article titled How Obama Used an Army of Thugs to Steal the 2008 Democratic Primary that introduced the conservative community to the movie “We Will Not Be Silenced”, made by Democrat activist Gigi Gaston two years ago. Her video documented widespread voter fraud committed by Obama supporters during the 2008 Democratic primary election to secure the nomination for Obama over the popular vote winner Hillary Clinton. The story went viral and 24 hours later Fox News asked Gaston to appear on the Sunday morning program Fox and Friends. For the first time many Americans saw...

J Christian Adams has been dropping plenty of bombs that make this Obama Justice Department starting to look more and more like an extension of the Obama Campaign. First it was the New Black Panther Party case that Justice mysteriously dropped. Then it was the charge DOJ does not intend to enforce voter intimidation against white people, and now this. Says Christian … DOJ has no intention of looking for voter fraud either.In an interview yesterday with Megyn Kelly Adams charged that Justice it will not enforce Section 8 of the Motor Voter law. It is the section that demands...

Man Pleads Guilty to Filing 250 Tax Returns for Dead People Riverside, Calif. (January 27, 2010) By WebCPA Staff A California man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. after he was accused of filing at least 250 tax returns of deceased individuals. Haroon Amin of Upland, Calif., pleaded guilty Monday to the charges. He was indicted, along with Ather Ali of Diamond Bar, Calif., in December 2008. The two were accused of filing the returns in 2002 and 2003 falsely stating that the deceased individuals earned wages from which income tax was withheld. The false returns claimed...

Englewood saw two homicides this week, bringing its 2009 murder toll to 17 victims. On Sunday, a 20-year-old man was found shot to death in the 500 block of West 58th Street, according to police information. The next day, a 21-year-old man was shot and killed about four blocks away. This year, Englewood has seen 16 shooting deaths and one fatal beating, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. Fourteen of the 17 victims were male, 14 were under the age of 30 when they died and all victims were black, according to data from the Cook County Medical...

Almost 20% of West Virginians eligible to vote are either dead or have moved. Five States with the Most Dead People Eligible to Vote: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming. FUN TIME IN ACORN TOWN: DEAD PEOPLE RULE! Are you lonely when you go to the polling place? Want some company? Perhaps, you'd like to take along a dead "friend" to vote with you. That's a scenario that's becoming more possible across the United States. A combination of old voter registration lists that still contain the names of dead voters and voters who have moved, new "Motor Voter" legislation,...

This week, thousands of people are getting stimulus checks in the mail. The problem is that a lot of them are dead. A Long Island woman was shocked when she checked the mail and received a letter from the U.S. Treasury -- but it wasn't for her. Antoniette Santopadre of Valley Stream was expecting a $250 stimulus check. But when her son finally opened it, they saw that the check was made out to her father, Romolo Romonini, who died in Italy 34 years ago. The Santopadres are not alone. The Social Security Administration, which sent out 52 million checks,...

An in-depth look at voter rolls across the state by a group of University of Connecticut journalism students earlier this year found that about 8,500 dead people were registered to vote, and that clerical errors made it appear that 300 of them actually had voted. A closer look by state election officials thus far has found no evidence of election fraud, though the review is ongoing. The students' effort focused attention on weaknesses in public record-keeping at the local level that allowed thousands of mistakes to go undetected. After the report appeared in The Courant in April, Secretary of the...

In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen ''I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.'' Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. The long curly locks in his Wanted poster are shorn, though he wears earrings. He still has tattooed on his neck the rainbow-and-lightning Weathermen logo that appeared on letters taking responsibility for bombings. And he still has the ebullient, ingratiating manner,...

UNION CITY, Tenn. (AP) - Congressman Harold Ford Junior of Memphis says his aunt, Ophelia Ford, got a "raw deal" in the disputed state Senate District 29 special election. He told the Union City Daily Messenger newspaper that the Senate should never have moved to oust her. Ophelia Ford, a Memphis Democrat, defeated Republican challenger Terry Roland by 13 votes to win the special election for the seat formerly held by her brother John Ford, who stepped down last May under federal indictment for bribery charges. Results of the election have been disputed after newspaper reports uncovered votes cast in...

Apparently actress Kate Hudson inherited more from mom Goldie Hawn than just looks and talent. She got her mother's Miss Cleo gene as well. Hudson claims to possess psychic capabilities, which were supposedly passed on to her from her comedic mother. Evidently, Hudson also gets a charge out of chitchatting with the dearly departed. She tells Empire magazine, "My mom is super into that stuff, we swap stories of our experiences all the time. I think I got my psychic abilities from her." Hudson also shares that she's "seen ghosts and experienced mystical things. I've seen many ghosts." Hudson tells...

I SEE DEAD PEOPLE Keanu claims he has a Sixth Sense Exclusive By John Millar IN an eerie echo of movie The Sixth Sense, Keanu Reeves says he can 'see dead people'. The Hollywood star revealed his ghostly experiences in a remarkable interview about his new supernatural thriller, Constantine. When we meet in Los Angeles for the launch of the movie, Keanu tells me he has seen ghosts on at least two occasions. As he notices I'm goggle-eyed, he asks where I'm from - and, when I say Scotland, he laughs and says: 'My God, man, that's full of ghosts!...

Out in Washington state, the Republicans are trying to discriminate against dead people. Now I say if the dead people are registered to vote, let them vote. How many times have we heard since the 2000 election, that every vote should count? According to the state Republican Party, around 44 dead people voted in the Washington gubernatorial race for Democrat Christine Gregiore. So, what should the Republicans learn from this? Well, for starters, they need to campaign more in cemeteries. Have you ever heard the saying, two out of three ain’t bad? Well, in the case of governor contender Republican...

MIDI - LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY THEME The DemocRAT way We said we'd secure Wisconsin Like Cook County did for Johnson We always pull this thing off with ease The DemocRAT way Voter fraud we have perfected It will never be detected We always pull this thing off with ease The DemocRAT way Have you seen dead people vote That is really quite hysterical Weekend at Bernies, round two The DemocRAT way Multiple votes are so easy We don't care if we are sleazy We always pull this thing off with ease It's the DemocRAT way...the RAT way We make...

Pildesti - A Romanian family who believed they buried their daughter two years ago were shocked when she came home to vote. The family from Pildesti, Neamt county, contacted local police when their 22-year-old daughter didn't return home in July 2003. After a few days of investigation police found a dead body on a river bank and identified her as the missing girl. Even her father, brother and some neighbours confirmed it was her. One of the relatives told Ziarul daily: "The deceased girl looked very much the same like the missing one: Same height, same brown hair, even the...

Sep. 5, 2003. 03:22 PM They All Want To See Dead People BARBARA TURNBULL LIFE WRITER Being in touch with the dead has been coming alive. Conversations with people in the hereafter is so very now — in movies, on television, in best-selling books and in personal appearances before live audiences across the continent. The widespread urge to get in touch with the dearly departed is making the afterlife mainstream. That's no surprise to James Van Praagh. He's the medium whose show Beyond With James Van Praagh is one of two about communicating with the dead that airs on TV...

DEATH OF A PROTESTER: Rachel Corrie, wearing a reflective Day-Glo jacket, shouts through a bullhorn at an oncoming Israeli army bulldozer in southern Gaza Sunday moments before it ran her over.INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT/AP from the March 18, 2003 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0318/p06s01-wome.html After Gaza death, activists resoluteAmerican Rachel Corrie was killed Sunday in Gaza when an Israeli army bulldozer ran over her. By Nicole Gaouette | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor JERUSALEM - The death of peace activist Rachel Corrie has done little to still violence in the Gaza Strip. An Israeli army raid into a Gaza shantytown...

MONACO Jan. 22 — An American male nurse convicted in the arson death of billionaire banker Edmond Safra escaped from prison overnight, police said Wednesday.Ted Maher, originally of Auburn, Maine, was convicted of arson in a 1999 fire in Monaco that also killed one of Safra's other nurses, Vivian Torrente.Copyright 2003 The Associated Press.

There are some people who should not be summoned for jury duty -- such as those who are dead. So ordered the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The five-member group, led by Supervisor Gloria Molina, said it was concerned that many families of dead relatives have been receiving repeated jury summonses. And in the end, it has been the family members who were forced to provide the county with copies of the death certificates, even though it is a county department that keeps records of those who have died. County officials say they are unsure how many...