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One of the leading organizations working to overthrow Marxism and restore Liberty in America, FreeRepublic.com, announces a drive to register 1,000,000 new Republican voters to defeat Barack Hussein Obomber and Joe Imbiden. Heck, if Moveon.org can register 500,000 budding young socialist abortionists to support their Marxist messiah, I don't see why FreeRepublic.com shouldn't register at least twice as many young God-fearing, pro-life, Liberty-loving American patriots to defeat their godless leftist takeover attempt. Click here to register: http://www.gop.com/ActionCenter/RegisterToVote/RegistrationInformation.aspx

In the fall 1980, Time Magazine noted that Ronald Reagan's chances depended on his ability to break the Democratic Party's hold on the blue-collar vote, as Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon had done before him. As it turned out, President Reagan ran almost even in white working neighborhoods in the Frost Belt and well ahead among their counterparts in the South and the West. Thus was born the concept of "Reagan Democrats," white workers who may have registered as Democrats but voted Republican for president. Since then, this crucial swing vote has largely determined national elections. How have they been...

Yes, it’s tough being a conservative voter these days. But the truth is it’s always been. Think about it. There have been 232 years of U.S. history. In how many of them could you have shared a conservative principle such as the one that follows with big shot politicians, bureaucrats, and judges and received a truly honest, deeply committed handshake of agreement in return? “I believe Jefferson was entirely correct when he observed that ‘the people themselves . . . are the safest depository of [political power].’ I also believe that because Jefferson condemned judges who practice ‘on the Constitution...

Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne said Tuesday he will meet today with a Democrat-affiliated group responsible for a voter registration effort that is inundating East Baton Rouge and other parish registrars with bogus and incomplete applications. Dardenne said his investigators are trying to determine if any state election laws have been violated as thousands of voter registration cards have been dumped on registrars offices through the efforts of VIP. “We have some very real concerns about the data we are getting from them,” Dardenne said. VIP is a Washington, D.C., group hired by national Democrats to register some 70,000...

Showing ID to vote? The horror. Seattle Post-Intelligencer runs whiny AP writer's complaint about Indiana voter law What is it with Democrats and showing ID at the polls? This article from an AP national writer certainly doesn't fit any reasonable standard for a wire service. It's just short of a screed, with no balance...just a minor jeremiad against asking people to show ID at the polls: The Supreme Court's refusal to strike down an Indiana law requiring government-issued photo identification at the ballot box could disenfranchise minority and elderly voters at next week's primary and prompt other states to pass...

CHATTANOOGA, TENN. -- Mike Huckabee accused Mitt Romney of dirty politicking at a morning rally today, suggesting that Romney is telling voters that a vote for Huckabee is a vote against Romney. On Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" last Thursday, Romney said: "I think most people recognize that a vote for Mike Huckabee is a vote for John McCain, and if they want John McCain as their nominee, why, that's exactly what that vote would do." Today, Huckabee responded: "I know Mr. Romney has been trying to do a little voter suppression by telling people a vote for me...

AS OUR DEMOCRATIC process grinds toward selecting the next leader of the free world, it is also shedding light on the values a democracy should hold dear. Last weekend in Nevada, former President Bill Clinton said he witnessed voter intimidation firsthand. According to Clinton, a union representative was telling workers to agree to caucus for Sen. Barack Obama or expect to get a work schedule making it impossible for them to attend at all.

WASHINGTON – On the eve of a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Indiana Voter ID law has become a story with a twist: One of the individuals used by opponents to the law as an example of how the law hurts older Hoosiers is registered to vote in two states. Faye Buis-Ewing, 72, who has been telling the media she is a 50-year resident of Indiana, at one point in the past few years also claimed two states as her primary residence and received a homestead exemption on her property taxes in both states. Monday night from her...

The dispute over Indiana's voter identification law that is headed to the Supreme Court next week is as much a partisan political drama as a legal tussle. The mainly Republican backers of the law, including the Bush administration, say state-produced photo identification is a prudent measure to cut down on vote fraud - even though Indiana has never had a prosecution of the kind of fraud the law is supposed to prevent. The opponents, mainly Democrats, view voter ID a modern-day poll tax that disproportionately affects poor, minority and elderly voters - who tend to back Democrats. Yet, a federal...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) just announced that the Senate will not clear four new appointees for the Federal Election Commission, meaning the panel that acts as a watchdog on political campaigns cannot function during the critical election-year period. Reid is blaming the White House for refusing to withdraw to allow a majority vote on the nomination of Hans von Spakovsky for a seat on the commission. Republicans want von Spakovsky approved as part of a slate of four FEC nominees or they will refuse to consider any of the nominees. Von Spakovsky was recess appointed by President Bush...

A man convicted of voting twice in the November 2006 election has been sentenced to a year in the Milwaukee County House of Correction. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge William W. Brash III sentenced Michael Zore, 45, of Wauwatosa, on charges that he voted in Wauwatosa and another Milwaukee suburb, West Allis, under an old address a few hours later. After a computer caught the double vote, Zore was charged with voting twice and providing false information to poll workers. Zore had contended that the double voting was the result of a stress-induced memory lapse. He told Brash in court Friday...

Center for American Progress has organized this. This is John Podesta's baby. It is hardly non-partisan. I believe we are going to see a massive number of students vote in two places. By the time it comes to prosecute people, who will do it? Hillary's Attorney General? David Halperin, the name you see at the bottom, is the father of Mark Halperin, who used to be political director at ABC News. I personally confronted Halperin at a book fair at UCLA earlier this year. He had lied to me when he promised to finally cover the Paul v Clinton...

Long-term energy plans are fine, the voter said, but with winter coming on what was Hillary Rodham Clinton going to do about rising heating prices? The New York senator met Thursday with nine voters at the Cranmore Mountain ski area in North Conway, a town heavily dependent on tourism. John Arruda, who owns a greeting card and novelty shop, told Clinton that tourists are spending less as they struggle with rising energy costs. "It takes money out of their pocket," he said. "Being in retail, I feel that almost immediately. I understand you have a long-term plan. But in the...

Three of seven defendants in the biggest voter-registration fraud scheme in Washington history have pleaded guilty and one has been sentenced, prosecutors said Monday. The defendants were all temporary employees of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, when they allegedly filled out and submitted more than 1,800 fictitious voter-registration cards during a 2006 registration drive in King and Pierce counties. No votes were cast in the names of the phony voters. Prosecutors said the defendants committed fraud in order to keep their jobs without actually registering voters. King County election workers brought the fraud to the attention...

...Nevertheless, the social super-conservatives are restive. Giuliani, McCain, Fred Thompson — what are all these ladies’ men doing in their primary? And while Mitt Romney has changed everything but his name in order to make them happy, a sizable chunk of the Christian right cannot seem to forgive him for being a Mormon. The old guard of the religious right is terrified that if Rudy Giuliani gets the nomination people will conclude that the evangelical leaders aren’t all that powerful after all or — horror of horrors — that the evangelical rank and file are not obsessed with abortion and...

Voter Confronts McCain on Immigration Sunday October 14, 2007 11:46 PM By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Writer HOPKINTON, N.H. (AP) - Sen. John McCain, who often faces challenging questions on illegal immigration, confronted a voter Sunday who called for ending legal immigration as well. For months, McCain has been telling New Hampshire audiences that he still believes in the immigration plan that failed in Congress earlier this year but that he now realizes that none of its components - including allowing millions of illegal immigrants to eventually earn legal status - can be enacted until the borders are secured first....

The U.S. Supreme Court has announced it will rule on whether or not photo identification can be required to vote. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey conducted during Election 2006 found that 77% of likely voters across the country believe that displaying a photo ID should be required to cast a vote. A Georgia survey conducted last week found that 84% of the state’s voters agree. The Supreme Court will rule on an Indiana case and consider a state law that was upheld by the Appeals Court. The 2005 law has been challenged by lawyers from the American Civil Liberties...

A federal court upholds Arizona's voter I.D. law. The Phoenix judge found that citizenship counts when determining who has the right to vote, and that Arizona's voter-approved law does not conflict with federal law. "They have no conflict of us requesting that people show citizenship when they register to vote nor any conflict when we ask for ID at the polls," Brewer said. Secretary of State Jan Brewer said more than 99 percent of voters had no problem complying with the new law in the 2006 election. Prop. 200's requirements were enacted by voters in 2004.

  King County flubs 400 voter registration cards 06:49 AM PDT on Friday, August 24, 2007  By ROBERT MAK / KING 5 News   Luke Esser  BELLEVUE, Wash. – The King County Elections department made a mistake with the state Republican Party chair's voter registration card this year. Luke Esser was one of 400 poll voters who received voter notification cards that were incorrect. For many years, Esser voted at Cross of Christ Lutheran Church in Bellevue. But in July, he got a letter and a new registration card from King County Elections, notifying him that it had changed his precinct location...

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has its roots in a coalition of welfare rights organizations which, since 1970, has fought for “social and economic justice” – in this, the land of social and economic freedom. The coalition experienced serious internal stresses when it was joined by organizations such as the Vietnam Veterans Organizing Committee (VVOC) and the Unemployed Workers Organizing Committee (UWOC), presumably a group that would punish the rest of us by...what?...refusing to accept their unemployment checks? ACORN claims to represent more than 350,000 member families and 850 neighborhood chapters in 100 cities across the...

NAPOLEONVILLE -- Eighty-five people were eligible to vote in an Assumption Parish election held two weeks ago. Only one person did. And she shouldn’t have. On Friday, Tammy Gros of Pierre Part confirmed what documents in the parish Registrar of Voters Office show -- she cast the lone vote in the July 21 election and single handedly decided how $17,500 in taxpayers’ money should be spent on drainage over the next decade. The trouble is, she lives just south of the drainage district’s boundaries and wasn’t eligible to vote on the measure. Officials say they aren’t sure why she was...

West Palm Beach The Republican Party of Palm Beach County says 60 people appear to have voted illegally in both the Florida and New York elections last Nov. 7. Republican Party Chairman Sid Dinerstein believes voter fraud is there and that law enforcement should take their list of 60 people "and see who's doing what." But several people on the list contacted by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel said the Republican Party has it all wrong. "Impossible," said Shirley Goldberg, an 82-year-old Democrat who lives in Delray Beach. "I registered and voted in New York when I lived there. But I've...

Me? I support people who dodged bullets to vote instead of those who dodged votes for more bullets.

It's not unusual to find empty seats inside the senate chambers. What is unusual is to find a hospital bed. "As long as I'm here they can't pass it," Sen. Mario Gallegos, D-Houston, said in regards to House Bill 218 which would require anyone who wants to vote in Texas to present a valid ID. According to his doctors State Sen. Gallegos shouldn't even be in Austin. But, if he had followed their advice that would mean a win for the Republicans. "I'm the eleventh vote on the blockage of 218, the voter ID bill," Sen. Gallegos said. The only...

Democrats barely blocked consideration of a voter identification bill Tuesday in the Texas Senate. Democrats scraped up enough votes only after a shouting match over whether a key senator's vote was counted -- and the just-in-time appearance of a senator with the stomach flu. Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst brought the bill up right after the morning prayer and the introduction of the doctor of the day, when minor legislation is usually considered. Democratic Senators seemed to be taken by surprise, asking the sponsor a few questions before allowing the vote on whether to further consider the measure. They revolted after...

On April 5, the 7th circuit voted 7-4 to uphold Indiana’s law, requiring voters to show government-issued Photo ID in order to vote at the polls. Technically, the 7th circuit voted 7-4 not to rehear the original decision, which had also upheld the Indiana law. The case is Indiana Democratic Party v Rokita, 06-2218.

I just received a computerized public opinion poll ostensibly from Channel 7 eyewitness news. Asked about candidates (no mention of Fred Thompson), asked if I approved of same sex marriage, a military draft, do I own a gun, is President Bush going down in history as great, medium or terrible president,am I black, latino or white,how old am I, am I pro-choice or pro-life,can I vote, will I vote, am I conservative or liberal, who is winning the war on terror-us or the terrorists... no mention of immigration...

"...Much evidence has been produced that voting systems in general are not developed according to rigorous models of secure code development nor tested with the rigor of other security-critical applications..."

"Last week, Chris Murphy pointed to a new e-voting security study in his InformationWeek blog. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology took a hard look at paperless e-voting systems. Here is how Murphy summarized the NIST study group's findings: The study group concludes that paperless electronic voting can't be made sufficiently secure, since there's no reliable record. It also concludes there's no effective way to assure software is free from errors or intentional malicious code. And it asks the question of how big a conspiracy it would take to rig a large election. It concludes a conspiracy...

"...The study suggests strategies that governments could use to make better decisions, including adequate voting system standards, appropriately timed funding, transparency throughout the system certification process and ability to perform audits..."

"... severe financial burden for state and local jurisdictions..."

"... if it happens that a machine malfunctions, without a voter-verified paper ballot, there is no way to know the results of an election..."

"...the most sweeping condemnation of such voting systems by a federal agency..."

"WASHINGTON Paperless electronic voting machines in widespread use across the country may be vulnerable to errors or sabotage and cannot be made secure, a draft report by a federal agency said. The report by researchers at the influential National Institute of Standards and Technology said the paperless voting machines - essentially notebook computers programmed to display ballot images and record voter choices - "in practical terms cannot be made secure." "Many people, especially in the computer engineering and security community, assert that the (voting machines) are vulnerable to undetectable errors as well as malicious software attacks," the report said..."

"...These machines must go. There is no way to know if one's vote is accurately accounted for..."

(2006-11-05) — A palpable wave of fear swept across the nation today as precinct-by-precinct voters began to realize that Wednesday morning they’ll probably wake up to news that, once again, they’ve elected the representatives they deserve. “I want to vote for someone with personal integrity, honesty, solid moral character and a vision for the future of this nation that supercedes personal ambition,” said one Pennsylvania voter, “but instead it looks like we’re going to get someone who’s no better than me.” The anxiety crossed political boundaries as Republicans and Democrats alike admitted that political advertising filled with gossip, innuendo, vitriol...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Four people have been indicted on charges of voter fraud in Kansas City, officials said Wednesday. Investigators said questionable registration forms for new voters were collected by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a group that works to improve minority and low-income communities. The four indicted -- Kwaim A. Stenson, Dale D. Franklin, Stephanie L. Davis and Brian Gardner -- were employed by ACORN as registration recruiters. They were each charged with two counts. Federal indictments allege the four turned in false voter registration applications. Prosecutors said the indictments are part of a national...

Justice Department conducting interviews into violations of Federal vote buying statute ALIEF - Harris County District Judge John Coselli today issued a permanent emergency restraining order to stop the Vietnamese Community of Houston and Vicinity, Inc. from running ads and distributing coupons that clearly violate the Texas Bribery Statute (Penal Code 32.06). The Talmadge Heflin Campaign with the Harris County Republican Party sought the restraining order after the organization reneged on a promise to voluntarily remove the ads. "We are pleased with Judge Coselli's decision to protect the integrity of the election process," Court Koenning, Campaign Director for Talmadge Heflin...

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. - Orange County Republican leaders on Thursday called for the withdrawal of a GOP congressional candidate they believe sent a letter threatening Hispanic immigrant voters with arrest. Tan D. Nguyen denied knowing anything about the letter in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press but said he fired a campaign staffer who may have been responsible for it. County Republican Chairman Scott Baugh, however, said that after speaking with state investigators and the company that distributed the mailer, he believes Nguyen had direct knowledge of "obnoxious and reprehensible" letter. He told the AP that the party's executive...

The correct position yes is winning 2-1

I have seen billboards that are harder to read than liberal Democrats. This is a group of people with no vision. They complain without offering solutions. When they do complain, they cannot do so without resorting to personal attacks. They offer nothing but vitriol. They don’t have a platform, they have a paragraph, “Republicans are evil, we hate Bush and get us out of Iraq.” When I was of the age and size to play in a sandbox, a common argument closer was, “Just because.” The Democrats are still playing in the sand box. “Just because” doesn’t get you far...

May 20, 2000 marks the 7th anniversary of President Clinton's signing the National Voter Registration Act, popularly known as Motor Voter. The right to vote means nothing if people are not registered. Motor Voter works by reducing necessary and burdensome bureaucratic obstacles to voter registration. The law requires states to provide uniform registration services through drivers' license agencies, through public assistance and disability agencies and through mail-in registration. In 1995, the first full year of implementation, more than 11 million citizens registered to vote or updated their voting addresses under the law. This figure represents the largest single increase...

Elections: A federal judge has just said yes to a new law in Arizona requiring voters to show an ID before they can cast their ballot. It’s a good idea, one that will go a long way to preserving our democracy. It’s been a long time coming. Arizona passed its law in 2004 over the objections of so-called voters rights groups that objected to the measure’s impact on the elderly and minorities. For Arizona, the real target of the bill was illegal immigrants. Its law came into being as part of Proposition 200, a voter initiative that also limited welfare...

SACRAMENTO The secretary of state's office said Friday that it would investigate allegations that signature gatherers paid to sign up voters for the California Republican Party submitted registration forms containing fake names. "If credible evidence of wrongdoing is found, we will work with local law enforcement to vigorously prosecute to the fullest extent of the law," Secretary of State Bruce McPherson said in a statement. McPherson announced his investigation after the GOP said a routine screening of registration forms yielded some "questionable patterns." "Together with the vendor, we figured out some kind of fraud was being perpetrated," said party spokesman...

MIAMI - A federal judge on Monday struck down a Florida law that imposes hefty fines on third parties that take too long to submit voter registration forms, saying it threatens free speech rights and unfairly exempts political parties. The law took effect Jan. 1 and has been blamed by critics for blocking voter registration drives because of huge financial risk. The law imposes a fine of $250 for each form submitted to election officials more than 10 days after it is collected from an individual. Penalties can reach $5,000 for each form that is collected but never submitted. "If...

PHOENIX -- Some Arizonans are lashing out at the state's campaign finance agency for its bilingual candidate pamphlet, which critics call an affront both for reasons of language and cost. The Citizens Clean Elections Commission received 17 letters and faxes critical of the pamphlet mailed to all voters' households before the primary election, and a commission aide said dozens more people telephoned the commission's Phoenix office to complain. The criticism of the bilingual pamphlet, mailed to 1.6 million Arizona households, comes at a time of increased debate concerning illegal immigration and several months before Arizonans vote on a legislative referendum...

Pity the poor values voter. She's all dressed up, but does she have anywhere to go? In 2004, she was the darling of the election. Now she feels like a wallflower, taken for granted by the Republicans and mocked by the Democrats. "Values voter" is, of course, a euphemism for evangelicals and conservative Catholics. It is more politically correct to use the euphemism than to acknowledge that one's religious faith actually influences their decision in the voting booth. After all, one must take care not to run afoul of the radical notion of separation of church and state promoted by...

There are 13 measures on the statewide ballot this fall in California. Those advocating a “yes” vote on any of them have an uphill battle. And if you think it is too early to be talking about the next election, well, that proves the point. We just had the June primary and that was the fifth statewide election since 2002. Part of the issue, of course, is voter fatigue. But there is something deeper going on. Voters are still very distrustful. Polls indicate that Californians still believe that the state is headed in the wrong direction. This is strange because,...

ATLANTA — Georgia's new photo-identification law turns back the clock on voting rights after two centuries of steady progress, former Gov. Roy Barnes charged in a Fulton County courtroom Thursday. But a legal attempt to prevent the state from enforcing the law during this month's primaries could be in trouble because of questions surrounding the qualifications of the plaintiffs. Barnes, a Democrat, is seeking a temporary restraining order on behalf of two clients who say they would be affected by legislation Republicans pushed through the General Assembly requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls. The case is...

Jim Marshall votes to use your taxpayer dollars for Spanish Ballots(Warner Robins, GA) For a person to become a naturalized American Citizen they are required to speak, understand and write Basic English according to American Red Cross Citizenship Project. Congressman Jim Marshall does not seem to understand that fact and has voted to spend our taxpayer funds to spend taxpayer money on bilingual ballots (Roll Call Vote 340, 06/28/2006). Mr. Marshall must therefore be asked why we need to spend our family's hard earned money when American citizens are required to understand English to vote. "After this vote and his...