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More than 22,000 illegal immigrants with criminal charges or convictions have been arrested in Texas through a 1-year-old program that links FBI and federal immigration databases, Homeland Security officials said Thursday. About 12 percent of them, or 2,700 people, were charged or convicted of what authorities call "level one" crimes such as murder, rape, kidnapping or narcotics violations with a sentence of more than one year. (snip) Under the new system, fingerprints are run simultaneously through a national database to check criminal history and through a Homeland Security database to check the person's immigration status. All those arrested in jurisdictions...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration has met many of the border security benchmarks Congress set in 2007 as a prerequisite to immigration reform and now it's time to change the law, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday. Napolitano, designated by President Barack Obama to lead the administration's immigration reform efforts, said many members of Congress had said they could support immigration reform, but only after border security improved, Napolitano said. "Fast forward to today, and many of the benchmarks these members of Congress set in 2007 have been met," she said in a speech to the Center for...

Syracuse, NY -- When Danielle Masursky cast her vote Tuesday at the Buckley Road Baptist Church in Clay, a trio of elections inspectors were standing close enough to read her ballot choices. That’s not counting the other voters who, as she carried the ballot from a table to a scanning machine, might have been able to see which boxes she had filled in. “I think it should be secret, and nobody should know how you’re voting,” Masursky said. “I think that is a key element of democracy.” Voters across New York state agreed, complaining to county elections boards that the...

I wonder why the same poeple opposing voter ID are the same favoring IRV ? why are "progressives" often on this bandwagon?

In assembling a new committee of Mobile County Democrats, the state Democratic party included one person who died last year, his widow and other party members confirmed this morning. Reynolds Smith, Jr., of the Eight Mile community, passed away in November at age 83, according to a Press-Register obituary at the time.

Just a reminder....for those wanting to vote in the Nov. 3 general election, TODAY is the deadline for registration. Your form must be in to a registrar by today at 5 pm IN PERSON or postmarked by today to be valid for this year's election. Faxed forms are not accepted. Click below or on the link above to print the voter registration form. http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/cms/documents/VoterRegistration/sbe_voter_app_DOJ-Printed.pdf

LAS VEGAS (AP) ― A former Nevada director for the political advocacy group ACORN testified Tuesday that quotas were common and that no one told him he couldn't pay bonuses to encourage voter registration canvassers to work a little harder during last year's presidential campaign. "No one in ACORN knew that this was illegal, up until December," Christopher Howell Edwards testified during an evidentiary hearing before a judge set to decide Wednesday whether the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and a former regional supervisor will stand trial in state court on felony charges.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- An Indiana appeals court threw out the state's voter identification law Thursday, finding it violates the state constitution's equal protection clause. The law, one of the strictest in the country, requires voters to show government-issued photo ID before they can cast their ballots. The three-judge panel said the law is unconstitutional because it does not apply to two groups of voters, the Indianapolis Star reported. Absentee voters are not required to file affidavits swearing to their identity, and residents of long-term care facilities do not have to show ID if their facility is a polling...

We wrote here and here about the Justice Department's dismissal of a voter intimidation case against a group of armed Black Panthers who threatened would-be voters outside a polling place in Philadelphia. The Justice Department won the case after the defendants defaulted (a wise move by them, it turns out), but decided to give the victory away. This struck us as another instance in which the Obama-Holder Justice Department made its decision based on political considerations, rather than considerations of justice. This was a case in which members of a political organization showed up at a polling place in uniform...

Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, the No. 3 official in the Obama Justice Department, was consulted and ultimately approved a decision in May to reverse course and drop a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party of intimidating voters in Philadelphia during November's election, according to interviews. The department's career lawyers in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division who pursued the complaint for five months had recommended that Justice seek sanctions against the party and three of its members after the government had already won a default judgment in federal court against the...

he U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear an appeal to the oft-challenged Georgia law that requires voters to show photo identification before they cast their ballots. (from AP) Mods edit as necessary

A Cuyahoga County, Ohio, man who was registered to vote by ACORN has been charged with registering to vote nine times last year using false addresses and names, NewsNet5 reports. NewsNet5 reports that "Darnell Nash has been indicted on felonious charges of tampering with records, false registration and illegal voting. The Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office conducted the investigation."

A few blog sites are starting to report DoJ's denial of Georgia's voter verification process. I don't understand how anyone with any common sense would not agree to citizenship and photo ID requirements to vote in a national election.The AJC Political Insider has more info including a pdf link to the DoJ six page letter from Loretta King, Acting Assistant, Attorney General, Civil Rights Division.more...

Only one congressman has the courage to ask why the Justice Department dropped the case. http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2009/06/01/top_stories/doc4a23b1ae4c1bd410553609.txt

Yesterday Mike wrote about how Obama appointee's dropped default judgments against some black panthers who intimidated voters on election day asking: Readers may recall the political firestorm which descended on President Bush when he fired three U.S. Attorneys. Will there be a similar firestorm for the direct political interference in this case to protect voting rights of people who might not vote for Obama? There is video on the post of the black panthers holding clubs and standing at the entrance to a polling place. Michelle Malkin has the affadivit from one witness, Bartle Bull, a long time civil rights...

Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews. The incident - which gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube - had prompted the government to sue the men, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring would-be voters with the weapon, racial slurs and military-style uniforms. Career lawyers pursued the case for months, including obtaining an affidavit...

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama met with ACORN leaders and reminded them of his history with ACORN and his work in Project Vote! In 1992, while he was working as a community organizer in Chicago, Obama headed the Chicago operations of Project Vote!, an ACORN effort to register voters nationally. "I came out of a grassroots organizing background," Obama bragged on his campaign website "Fight the Smears," in a section that apparently has been removed. "That's what I did for three and a half years before I went to law school. That's the reason I...

The NAACP and American Civil Liberties Union of Florida are trying to stop legislation that could require a driver's license, passport or a form of state identification card in order to vote. The bill is gaining national attention from those who fear it would disenfranchise voters.

<p>MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin man has acknowledged that he illegally cast an absentee ballot for Barack Obama in his wife's name to fulfill her dying wish. Stephen Wroblewski (roe-BLESS-key) of Milwaukee said Wednesday he plans to plead guilty to voter fraud to end the embarrassing episode.</p>

A Liberal going after ACORN? House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. says he “probably” will pursue a congressional hearing on suspected illegal activity by the liberal activist group ACORN, taking aim at one of the Democratic Party’s most effective fundraising and voter registration organizations.

Sean Stevens, a polling place worker in Monroe County, PA faces felony voter fraud charges for reaching into voting booths and changing people’s votes on Election Day.Stevens, seen here in a video taken on November 4, 2008, set up a bench behind the electronic machines at the polling place he was overseeing and strolled back and forth encouraging people to vote for Barack Obama and actually reaching down and changing votes.According to County Detective Eric Kerchner, one witness stated: Stevens reached into the booth, looked at his selections and “selected and deselected� a number of his votes. Kerchner said when the...

Minnesota voters apparently will be able to go through at least one more election where they can vote without showing photo identification. A Minnesota House committee today rejected a bill that would have required voters to produce photo IDs before voting. The government operations committee vote was 11 to 8, with most Democrats voting no and Republicans voting yes. The bill's chief sponsor, Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Delano, said the measure was needed to ensure the "integrity and legitimacy of our elections" by preventing voter fraud. Opponents said the legislation is unneeded. Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a Democrat, said he...

A rising chorus of GOP leaders are protesting that the blockbuster Democratic stimulus package would provide up to a whopping $5.2 billion for ACORN, the left-leaning nonprofit group under federal investigation for massive voter fraud. Most of the money is secreted away under an item in the now $836 billion package titled “Neighborhood Stabilization Programs.” Ordinarily, neighborhood stabilization funds are distributed to local governments. But revised language in the stimulus bill would make the funds available directly to non-profit entities such as ACORN, the low-income housing organization whose pro-Democrat voter-registration activities have been blasted by Republicans. ACORN is cited by...

As Inauguration Day approaches and Barack Obama prepares to assume his first term as president, some in Congress are hoping to make it possible for the Democrat to not only seek a second term in office, but a third and fourth as well. The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary is considering a bill that would repeal the Constitution's 22nd Amendment prohibiting a president from being elected to more than two terms in office. Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y., earlier this month introduced the bill, H. J. Res. 5, which, according to the bill's language, proposes "an amendment to the Constitution...

Obama Bill Would Make Voter Intimidation, Election Fraud Illegal For too many elections, misinformation and intimidation have kept thousands of Americans from voting," said Senator Obama. "Voting is not only a basic right but also one of our most important responsibilities, and we must ensure that all Americans have equal, unfettered access to the polls.

This is a headline on foxnews.com, no story yet.

Last night, I spent some time with an alleged Obama voter. I say "alleged" because this fellow seems like an intelligent person, which makes it hard for me to believe he is actually voting for Obama. But he insists that he is, and he insists that he is not playing games with my head. He is a Democrat, a Hillary supporter and an Obama voter. In an attempt to get a logical reason for voting for Obama, I asked him to tell me what it is about Obama or his policies that he liked. He told me that for him,...

Lest you find yourself discouraged about voting or worse, still undecided, on this the last day before the national election, here are a few incentives for you to get out and make your vote count. 1. Free coffee at Starbucks. Starbucks locations nation-wide will be giving out free cups of regular coffee (tall, of course) to patrons who have voted. 2. Krispy Kreme is preparing special star-shaped Election Day donuts for each customer sporting an "I Voted" sticker. 3. And what Election Day would be complete without a free scoop of Ben & Jerry's ice cream ? Of course, good...

"Ever since we launched the statewide voter registration database back in January, 2006, we have been able to remove 160,000 invalid registrations, including a number who were signed up in more than one county, voters who had died, and convicted felons who have not had their voting rights restored," said state Elections Director Nick Handy. "But we would be the first to acknowledge that dealing with felon voters is a work in progress. Ultimately, we need state lawmakers to clear the way by passing reform legislation." The state aggressively uses reliable and current data to scrub the voter rolls four...

More than 30,000 Florida felons who by law should have been stripped of their right to vote remain registered to cast ballots in this presidential battleground state, a Sun Sentinel investigation has found. Many are faithful voters, with at least 4,900 turning out in past elections. Another 5,600 are not likely to vote Nov. 4 — they're still in prison. Of the felons who registered with a party, Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two to one. Florida's elections chief, Secretary of State Kurt Browning, acknowledged his staff has failed to remove thousands of ineligible felons because of a shortage of...

For years, ACORN has been a force in registering mostly younger, lower-income minorities to vote. So far this year, the group has registered 1.3 million new voters. Slater said that 1,187 packages, each containing a registration worker's daily collection of as many as 18 forms, have been flagged for county election officials as "potentially bogus." He also estimated that about 1 percent of ACORN's nationwide registration applications — some 13,000 forms — could contain fictitious names or addresses. In addition, as many as 25 percent may be duplicates. To affect an election tally, someone would have to vote in the...

WASHINGTON – Voter turnout will be the highest in decades, dwarfing recent presidential elections, experts predict. The only question dividing experts is how huge will it be. Will it be the largest since 1968, largest since 1960 or even, as one expert predicts, the largest in a century? Soaring early voting levels hint at a big turnout, but that could just be the same voters casting ballots earlier instead of more voters hitting the polls. Weather should generally be favorable, according to forecasts. --snip-- Michael McDonald of George Mason University is so optimistic he's predicting the highest level in a...

Examples of possible voter fraud in Ohio stretch from the farmlands to the West Coast. In Highland County, 95-year-old Mildred Meddock registered and voted for the first time in her life despite her advanced Alzheimer's disease. Her granddaughters learned of her newfound patriotism when they visited the nursing home where Meddock lives and saw an "I voted today" sticker on her clothing. Records show that Meddock registered Sept. 26 when two Highland County Board of Elections employees visited the home, Heartland of Hillsboro, about 65 miles south of Columbus. Four other residents also were registered and voted that day. "I'm...

OMAHA (KPTM) - The voting booth is supposed to be a sacred spot. The right to vote is considered the cornerstone of American democracy. But there always seems to be someone trying to take advantage of the system. The long line outside the Douglas County Election Office isn't moving fast. But Eileen Tighe is on an early voting mission. "If I had to sit on the concrete I would do that." She re-registered to vote at the County Treasurers office two weeks ago when she moved. "The box was open, it didn't have a slot in it and I didn't...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich (WZZM) Two people from West Michigan are facing felony charges after authorities say they forged multiple voter registration applications. Robin Anderson and Patty Wallace are both facing multiple charges of felony forgery. The State Attorney General's Office says Anderson and Wallace both told Grand Rapids authorities they turned in fake voter applications to meet quotas set by their employer Community Voter's Project. They face up to 14 years on each count but could face tougher penalties for being habitual offenders. Anderson was convicted of dealing drugs in 2006. Wallace was convicted in Florida of unemployment compensation fraud...

Falsely attesting or being attested for is registration fraud and is a class D felony, punishable by a fine of up to $7,500 and five years in prison. Registration fraud also includes falsely registering to vote, attempting to falsely register to vote and registering to vote in more than one precinct. Emmet County Auditor Bev Juhl said any poll worker, poll watcher or member of the public can challenge a voter's qualifications to vote at the polls. The voter who is challenged can still file a provisional ballot and has until 2 p.m. Thursday the week of the election to...

A record number of Californians has registered to vote in the run-up to next week's general election, with voter rolls surpassing 17 million for the first time. The secretary of state's office said Friday that the state has 17.3 million registered voters. That's up from the previous peak in February 2005, when California had 16.6 million voters.

October 30, 2008Posted by crystalclearconservative in National Politics, Virginia Politics. Just when you thought all was safe and you could sleep thinking everything would be alright with no vote fraud in sight here in Virginia, you are proven wrong. Recently, the influx of new voter registration in Virginia has brought a tidal wave of vote fraud here in the Commonwealth. Thousands of college students enrolled at Virginia colleges and universities are not just registered here, but in their home states as well. These students have also applied for absentee ballots in their home states. Hmmm, something sounds fishy, eh? In...

I have noticed this but frankly I am not up to speed on this effort. I believe it's a good idea. Obama should be called upon to support this, and failure to support it shows he & ACORN are in bed together. n light of the rampant voter registration fraud occurring across the United States , we demand that Congress pass emergency legislation requiring ALL voters present a valid photo identification in order to be eligible to vote in the Nov. 4th election . We further demand that Congress launch a full investigation into the current registration fraud as well...

All this talk of voter fraud and people casting multiple votes. Why don't we take our own advice and do something very simple yet effective?Sorry if anyone already had this idea. It came to me this AM when I was changing for work. Here's my idea: The purple ink we used in Iraq. Can't we use that here as well?

Breaking News >> Supreme Court Sides With Democratic Official in Ohio Voter Registration Dispute

For Immediate Release October 16, 2008 Statement On ACORN Investigation ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager Rick Davis released the following statement in response to the FBI's investigation of ACORN: "Given the fact the FBI has launched a nationwide investigation into the questionable voter registration practices of ACORN, it is imperative that Barack Obama's campaign cooperate fully with this important investigation. To date, in public announcements including last night's debate, Barack Obama has attempted to conceal and distort his and his campaign's relationship with a group that is currently engaging in systematic voter fraud. Barack Obama's campaign must...

This is a grass-roots effort to petition the government to postpone the election until ACORN's massive voter registration fraud on the American people in order to steal the election for Obama is eliminated. It is not possible to have a credible and acceptable election until ACORN's illegal registrations are removed from the records. This problem is large enough to start swamping the federal courts in every state with thousands of lawsuits asking for TRO's and injunctions against ACORN and all the voter registrars who have not stopped the massive fraud by ACORN. Obama and ACORN caused this problem and they...

NOTICE the 2 critical quotes from Obama's camp (article below) back in Sept. 27, 2008,"Barack Obama's team believes his strength among first time voters in several key states has been underestimated ", "Public polling companies and the media have underestimated the scale of new Democratic voters registration in these states," the campaign official told a friend." "FIRST TIME", that's those illegally registered dead or fictitious voters! YES! "the scale of new Democratic voters registration..." Gotta be! Connect the dots!! Fits like a jigsaw puzzle! We can now NAIL this liar-in-chief! Sen. McCain & Gov. Palin should read these quotes every...

Claims of voter harassment in Vanderburgh County — hard to prove, possibly politically motivated and guaranteed to stir partisan passions — are starting to roll in. County Clerk Susan Kirk said Tuesday that several people have called her to report being hounded by campaign workers at their doorsteps and over the telephone. She said one man reported he was offered 25 cents to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Although none of the roughly half-dozen callers can name who allegedly harassed them, Kirk said all have said it was a person or persons who identified themselves as supporters of...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AFP) – Barack Obama's White House campaign charged Tuesday that desperate Republicans were waging a nationwide campaign orchestrated with John McCain's staff to intimidate voters and depress turnout. Top aides to the Democrat battled back against what they called a Republican "smokescreen" over a liberal advocacy group called ACORN, which is under investigation in several states over allegations of voter registration fraud. The group released a video, set to the song "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," showing McCain warmly greeting its activists at a February 2006 event in support of immigration reform. Obama said his own ties to...

We are preparing a campaign to prevent ACORN and other Obama supporters from stealing this election. We need articles about this and links to our own threads which contain tons of links to articles, etc. so we can launch our effort on Tuesday...please help with links if you can...thanks!

Demand Emergency legislation that requires ALL voters to show a valid photo ID . You have to have an ID to fly , you should have to have one to vote ! Please sign the Petition. Thank You

ACORN's hypocrisy also extends to its stand on the minimum wage. While it has often attempted to force minimum-wage increases on private businesses through ballot initiatives and local ordinances, ACORN tried to exempt itself from California's minimum-wage requirements. According to EPI, "ACORN argued that being forced to pay higher wages would mean that they would hire fewer employees — the very dilemma faced by businesses. Incredibly, ACORN stated that paying its employees a lower wage would allow them to be more sympathetic to the low- and moderate-income families they were attempting to help. ACORN argued that abiding by the state...

ACORN Group Accused Of Voter FraudThe Associated Press Published: October 11, 2008 Accusations of voter fraud have hurled a mud ball into an already messy presidential campaign, with Republicans alleging that Democrat Barack Obama has close ties to an activist group accused of compiling fake registration forms, including ones for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys, submitted in Nevada. Rick Davis, the campaign manager for Republican candidate John McCain, told reporters in a telephone conference call Friday that Obama's connections to The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, should be investigated. The group says it...