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Top Democrats are aggressively pushing the claim that Republicans’ worries about voter fraud are an insincere excuse to suppress voting by African-Americans and Hispanics. But former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis told The Daily Caller that anti-fraud measures are needed to protect African-Americans from corrupt political bosses — many of them African-Americans themselves — who run Democratic Party machines in the South. On Nov. 14, progressive Democratic Reps. John Conyers, Steny Hoyer, Jerrold Nadler, Keith Ellison, Steve Cohen, Marcia Fudge and Emanuel Clearer, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus — along with representatives from several advocacy groups — held...

The Examiner first reported on this weeks ago, and that was followed by this Fox News report, but a local Tea Party group appears to have uncovered some serious allegations of vote fraud by a group run by an SEIU official. Blogger Patterico takes a closer look at the story and finds that the group is also connected to controversial activist with Obama’s Organizing for America campaign group: Guess who was active in recruiting for Houston Votes? That would be one Maria Isabel. Does that name sound familiar? It should. She is a radical Obama supporter who ran an Obama...

Schultz: "Keep these bastards out."

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala today charged seven employees of ACORN (snip) with forgery and election law violations, saying they filed hundreds of fraudulent voter registrations during last year's general election. The charges are part of a continuing investigation of ACORN, (snip) fake voter registrations were filed by hourly employees apparently attempting to meet daily registration quotas in order to be paid. (snip) ACORN officials have denied those charges.

JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - Mississippi's voter situation is hard to believe. Places like Madison County have over 123% more registered voters than people over the age of 18. Sue Sautermeister, First District Election Commissioner in Madison County, tried to purge the rolls, but ran into trouble when it was discovered it takes a vote of three of the five election commissioners and the purge cannot take place within 90 days of a federal election. Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann is the first to admit the situation with voter registration in this state is terrible. "It is terrible," he says. "Combined...

Obama campaign counsel Bob Bauer has sent a letter (.pdf) to the Department of Justice requesting that Special Prosecutor Dannehy -- who is currently investigating the firings of U.S. Attorneys -- expand her investigation to look into whether any administration officials have worked in a joint effort with the McCain campaign and the RNC in legitimizing the allegations of vote fraud. In the letter, Bauer asks for an inquiry into what he calls a "systematic development and dissemination of unsupported, spurious allegations of vote fraud." On a conference call with reporters, Bauer went further in explaining their position. "These [vote...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 04/28/2008 Pelosi Statement on Supreme Court Decision on Voter ID Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision today on Indiana’s voter identification case: “The Supreme Court’s decision is disappointing. The Court’s decision today places obstacles to the fundamental rights of American citizens—especially the poor, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities—to participate in the electoral process. Requiring American citizens pay for underlying documents needed for an identification card and travel to distant motor vehicle locations for processing hinders—and diminishes—their right to...

December 12, 1997 At 10:30 on Thursday morning at Arlington National Cemetery, a team of gravediggers quietly dug up the remains of Larry Lawrence and carted away his granite tombstone, which was engraved with lies. Chiseled in stone were claims that Lawrence, the late millionaire businessman who became an ambassador, had served in the U.S. merchant marine and had earned the designation of “S1C,” the Navy abbreviation for seaman, first class, which would not have been given to a merchant mariner anyway. Neither claim was true. During his 69-year lifetime, Lawrence fabricated his World War II heroics, his education, how...

WASHINGTON — Ohio and Florida, which provided the decisive electoral votes for President Bush's two razor-thin national election triumphs, have enacted laws that election experts say will help Republicans impede Democratic-leaning minorities from voting in 2008. Backers of the new laws say they're aimed at curbing vote fraud. But the statutes also could facilitate a controversial Republican tactic known as ``vote caging,'' which the GOP attempted in Ohio and Florida in 2004 before public disclosures foiled the efforts, said Joseph Rich, a former Justice Department voting rights chief in the Bush administration who's now with the Lawyers Committee for Civil...

Raleigh | The N.C. State Board of Elections suspended the campaign of state Rep. Thomas Wright on Tuesday because he has failed to file a financial disclosure report due since July 27. It was the latest episode in what has been a nine-month confrontation between Wright and elections administrators and legislative leaders. Tuesday's move means that the eight-term lawmaker and Democrat from Wilmington cannot accept campaign contributions or spend campaign money until the report is filed and any fines are paid. Kim Strach, the state deputy elections director who heads the board's campaign finance compliance staff, said she waited until...

The statewide push to hang onto the Bay State's 10 congressional seats after the 2010 census will be tested in the efforts to count illegal immigrants, officials said yesterday. With federal money distributed based on a number of factors, including the population, it is especially important that all residents - regardless of their immigration status - are included in the census, they said. In many countries, a census often isn't done at all or doesn't carry the same weight as it does in the United States. According to Kathleen Ludgate, regional director for the United States Census Bureau's Boston office,...

Late Friday, in an atmosphere of total chaos -- with a midnight deadline looming, county election officials waiting anxiously by their phones, and videographers and reporters clamoring outside — Secretary of State Debra Bowen moved to decertify electronic voting machines used by 9 million voters. The decision to decertify leaves county voting officials scrambling once again. They must either find replacement voting equipment that will satisfy the state elections chief before the Feb. 5 presidential primary or upgrade security in systems they do have. The new systems and/or new security measures required must be acquired, tested, installed and workers trained...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. David Scott has used his campaign account to pay more than $500,000 to four family members and his family's business, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Atlanta Democrat, who graduated from the prestigious Wharton School of Business, also had had more than 40 tax liens — some dating to the 1980s and 1990s — placed against his home and business, the Atlanta-based Dayn-Mark Advertising.

(Cuyahoga County) – About 12,000 votes were illegally cast in last month’s election in Cuyahoga County. Problems stem from people getting in line for there voting cards without signing the registration book. Election leaders say more training is needed to help poll workers understand how to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen. They are surprised by the number – and note when we used punch cards – the number of votes with problems was about 100. However, that was after years of using the same system and we have only had two elections with this system so far....

5:01 p.m.     ANNAPOLIS -- The state's highest court today upheld a previous ruling that the General Assembly's recently enacted early-voting law is unconstitutional, meaning it will not be implemented this fall.     The court also ruled that Montgomery County Council member Tom Perez, a Democrat, is ineligible to run for attorney general, reversing an earlier ruling by a lower court and ending Mr. Perez's campaign.     Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., a Republican running for re-election, has been a strong opponent of early voting because he says it increases the likelihood of voter fraud this fall.     "Today´s decision by the Maryland Court...

While Senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and John Kerry (D-MA) attempt to push a bill through the Senate that would restore voting rights for felons -- including killers, rapists and child predators -- such a law would receive a cold reception by most Americans, according to a just-released poll. And some believe Clinton and Kerry -- with the help of some news organizations -- are trying to sneak their bill under the public radar. A new poll conducted by Zogby Interactive for Associated Television News and The O'Leary Report shows that a clear majority of Americans, including blacks and Hispanics, are...

A top aide to Cook County Board President John Stroger faces questioning about why she was inside a suburban polling place Friday, allegedly guiding elderly voters through their ballots and posing as an election official. Betty Hancock Perry explained she was "trying to help voters" at the Lydia Healthcare Center in Robbins, election officials said. But those who observed her say she was helping them cast votes for her boss and discouraging votes for challenger Forrest Claypool. She gained access, they say, by assuring them she was an election judge hired by Cook County. As officials with the county clerk...

NEW YORK Results of a state senate election in western Tennessee have been thrown into doubt, and an investigation into voter fraud launched, after the Memphis Commercial Appeal uncovered proof that votes had been cast for dead people. The Sept. 15 special election to fill a vacant seat in the 29th state Senate District, which includes part of Memphis, had already drawn intense interest when the margin of victory was just 13 votes out of 8,750 cast. Democrat Ophelia Ford had edged Republican Terry Roland in the race to fill the seat previously held by Ford's brother, John, who was...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A federal probe into possible political corruption in New Jersey has focused on past campaign donations given to state political figures, including a top official on with U.S. Sen. Jon S. Corzine's gubernatorial campaign. Individuals close to the probe told The Philadelphia Inquirer for Sunday's editions that the FBI is examining investigative files removed from the state Division of Criminal Justice, including a file related to the 2000 congressional campaign of Susan Bass Levin. She recently left a state post to become the Corzine campaign's operations chief. The FBI took the files earlier this month after...

More and more reports are emerging of the extent to which Democrats were willing to go to try to influence the 2004 election. Well, their tactics worked in Washington State. Our Republican candidate for Governor, Dino Rossi, actually won the election. Then he won the recount. Then Democrat-controlled King County "found" 566 new votes just in time for the second recount, enough to overturn the results of Election Day and the first recount. The new result? Dino Rossi "lost" by 129 votes. But consider the following facts in Washington state; 943 felons illegally voted 49 dead people voted 3 people...

Indianapolis (AP) -- The Indiana Democratic Party sued in federal court Monday seeking to overturn a new state law that requires most voters to show government-issued photo identification before casting a ballot. The lawsuit claims the law, which is among the strictest in the nation, violates the U.S. Constitution and federal voting laws. It is slated to take effect July 1. Critics say requiring a photo ID at the polls unfairly affects the poor, minorities, people with disabilities and the elderly, many of whom do not have driver's licenses and might struggle to obtain a photo ID. Dan Parker, chairman...

As the whole world watches, American democracy may be hanging by a thread in Ohio. Monday, December 13, saw a triple play that will live in electoral infamy. But every new day brings still more stunning revelations -- this time from Toledo -- of vote theft and fraud and a towering wall of resistance and sabotage against a fair recount of the votes that allegedly gave George W. Bush four more years in the White House. Three major events made December 13 a monument to electoral theft: a lawsuit filed in the morning at the Ohio State Supreme Court demanding...

Milwaukee's News Radio 620 WTMJ reported today that Milwaukee police are investigating the children of prominent local democrat politicians in connection with the election day tire slashing incident involving approximately 30 vans rented by the local GOP for use in getting out the GOP vote. Stay tuned . . . .

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So, I walked two blocks to my voting place, cast my vote (straight Republican ticket), then got home and received a phone call on my cell from the local Democrat candidates, Barack Obama and Ricca Slone. Now, I have received two previous cell phone calls from these jackals and I keep wondering how they got the number and why they are wasting my minutes with their stupidity, but this time I listened. The caller said, "We're calling because you may have received a letter from the sherriff's office telling you that you are not registered and cannot vote (this is...

(CNSNews.com) - Americans will know by midnight on Nov. 2 who's been elected president -- and it will be John F. Kerry, predicted Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. In a Friday morning interview with Fox & Friends, McAuliffe said with only 11 days to go, the undecided voters are starting to make up their minds. "And I think once we get through this upcoming weekend and the last week, I think you're going to see significant movement toward John Kerry." McAuliffe said Democratic polling data shows that Kerry is up in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. "Right now...

On his 10/5/04 Late Afternoon Show, Mark Belling, talk show host on Newstalk 1130 WISN, conducted a chilling interview of a woman, "Katie," who had witnessed blatant complicity by the City of Milwaukee Election Commission in WISCONSIN DEMOCRAT ELECTION FRAUD. Belling's interviewee said that she overheard a city of Milwaukee election official encourage a registration operative to FORGE signatures on voter registration applications. "Katie" related that on or about 10/4/04, she was in the office of the Milwaukee Election Commission. In walked an operative carrying a stack of voter registration applications, asking to file these forms. The applications were not...

So last week, about an hour before the debate, I heard that the dems were urging folks to immediately contact news organizations so the talking points could get spread virally, so i signed up with a pseudononomous email address. In 4 days I've received 8 emails. Just now I received a pitch to contribute to their RECOUNT fund.

"In the first presidential debate, I was hoping to hear a good debate. "I wanted to hear John Kerry lay out his plans for Iraq and for winning the war on terror. I wasn't disappointed. Kerry staked out a strong plan to bring peace to Iraq and to refocus our efforts to fight terrorists around the world. "President Bush avoided the questions and issues presented him. He is a terrible speaker and a worse debater. His snide grin doesn't work on me. He's led us into danger, not toward safety. "This debate made it clear: Kerry is a leader we...

Racine - A group that says it has registered 30,000 voters in southeastern Wisconsin could face a criminal investigation because of voter registration applications that may have been filed fraudulently.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California's lieutenant governor paid a record $263,000 fine for violating campaign donation limits in his run against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the state's political watchdog agency said Tuesday. California's Fair Political Practices Commission charged in a civil lawsuit filed in January that Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante and his supporters improperly moved $3.8 million between campaign committees during the recall election in an effort to skirt contribution limits. Although agency officials have said Bustamante faced fines of as much as $9 million, the $263,000 settlement is still the largest ever paid in California by a candidate. The agreement...