The Left Owns the Election Law Industry

FrontPage Magazine ^ | Aug 12th, 2011 | Posted by J. Christian Adams

[Jerrybob]

Election law and, I dare say, election MACHINES and those who count the votes.....

[Vaduz]

Unfortunately, the election law practitioners who represent the far-left fringe have a mighty head start.

Any questions why Obama wants to drum up a billion for his relection,he’s has a lot of people on his pay roll.

[cripplecreek]

We spend way too much time on things like presidential and congressional election but few of us spend much time studying the candidates in secretary of state races.

We won a major victory over the Soros election machine when we elected Ruth Johnson as Michigan SOS over Jocelyn Benson. Benson was groomed to defraud, dillute, and disenfranchise.

Jocelyn Benson (Wiki)

During the 2004 Presidential election, Benson was hired to develop the first nationwide Election Protection program for the Democratic National Committee. Benson selected, recruited, and trained Voter Protection coordinators in 21 states. The program resulted in deployment of over 17,000 trained election law lawyers.

After working with the Michigan Democratic Party's election protection effort in 2006, Benson developed and supervised two statewide nonpartisan election protection efforts in Michigan in 2007 and 2008. She worked with Michigan Democratic Party's election protection effort in 2006. During the 2008 election, she was called to testify before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, where she called on Secretary Terri Lynn Land to ban the use of foreclosure lists to challenge voters' eligibility on Election Day. She is a frequent commentator on voting rights and election law on local news and radio broadcasts.

In 2007, Benson worked with several groups to successfully block the closure of a Secretary of State branch office in Buena Vista Township, Michigan. The U.S. Department of Justice concluded that the closure of the office would violate the Voting Rights Act.

Benson is currently an Associate Law Professor at Wayne State University Law School, where she teaches Election Law. She is also an appointed member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Election Law.

Prior to her appointment as a Professor, Benson served as a law clerk to the Honorable Damon J. Keith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. From 2002-2004, she served as the Voting Rights Policy Coordinator of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, a non-profit organization that sought to link academic research to civil rights advocacy efforts, where she worked on the passage of the federal Help America Vote Act.

In March 2010, Benson published her first book, State Secretaries of State: Guardians of the Democratic Process. The book highlights best practices of Secretaries from throughout the country and seeks to inform voters about how Secretaries of State from either side of the political spectrum can work to advance democracy and election reform.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I don’t think a single voting machine has been caught built to cheat toward or against any candidate or party as such.

Voting machines are often far more complex than they need to be, the more hooks to hang monkey wrenches on. They sometimes do not enforce programming rules that ensure data consistency whenever the same candidate is referred to in multiple places.

[SueRae]

Needs to be seen by every voting American who assumes their vote will count and that elections are fair.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Literally hundreds of individuals man permanent stations, full time, at these groups. They benefit from tens of millions of dollars in funding. They bring lawsuits under federal and state statutes ranging from the Voting Rights Act, Motor Voter law and the Help America Vote Act. They station teams of election observers in polling places around the nation every election to fuel their litigation and their media efforts. Almost nobody opposes their efforts. “

He forgot one of the last actions of the failed Republican congress in 2006 re-newing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 without changes that regulates elections in certain states and mandates ballots in Spanish.

Some States are passing new election laws but the real problem at the root of this articles complaints is federal laws passed like motor voter that Republicans never tried to repeal when in power, too busy trying to buy votes for the short term .

[cripplecreek]

We use the optical scanners in my little town and we don’t seem to have any problems. They’re trying to push touch screen computers on us by having one available but it sits mostly unused as people wait for a booth to fill out ballots the old fashioned way.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” but the real problem at the root of this articles complaints is federal laws passed like motor voter that Republicans never tried to repeal when in power, too busy trying to buy votes for the short term . “

Our party never does ANYTHING. That is why the Tea Party was founded out of pure frustration!

[Springfield Reformer]

I’m an attorney and I do election law, in Illinois of all places. And yes, I’m planning on being involved for 2012. In fact, this article has given me an idea....

[Puppage]

Any questions why Obama wants to drum up a billion for his relection

Well, he got a good start last night. He raked in 2 million from 2 events in NYC.

[mo]

mmmm...look at “sanctuary cities” for starters...those are the ones they’re using illegals to obfuscate the 110% “turnout”

IMHO....in a country that by every poll is slightly right of center, most blue states probably should in reality be red.

We the People’s neglect of this issue , in the end, is the primary root of America’s problems.

[cripplecreek]

True enough, even Texas has sanctuary cities.

On the other hand I still see FReepers calling Michigan a blue state despite the fact that the GOP holds everything from the Governors mansion to the garbageman after the last election.

[factoryrat]

Time to fight fire with fire. If the liberal/communists can't win an election fair and square, they resort to legal challenges and recall efforts to force their way in through judicial fiat. These people are ruthless, and the only thing they understand is direct confrontation. We know this, we see this, and when it happens, you fight them head on, and you do not give up until you make them back down. Their goal is to wear you down financially and morally, until you can't fight any longer. It's a battle of attrition for the liberal/communists to purge the last constitutionalists from the government.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”” but the real problem at the root of this articles complaints is federal laws passed like motor voter that Republicans never tried to repeal when in power, too busy trying to buy votes for the short term . “ Our party never does ANYTHING. That is why the Tea Party was founded out of pure frustration!”

That was also 2009 and 2010 when Democrats were in control of everything and it was easy to focus on them as the symbol of what's wrong with everything. Remember all the comments last year saying :’Just have Republicans take over control of congress that's all that matters’ ? Now we got split government again and they work together.

I easily called 2008 in early 2007/late 2006.
I easily called 2010 in late 2008.

A neighbor asked me about who will win in 2012. I told him
Republicans are mad at Democrats,
Democrats are mad at Republicans,
Democrats are mad at Democrats,
Republicans are mad at Republicans,
all while Rome is burning. Its a mess.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”” but the real problem at the root of this articles complaints is federal laws passed like motor voter that Republicans never tried to repeal when in power, too busy trying to buy votes for the short term . “ Our party never does ANYTHING. That is why the Tea Party was founded out of pure frustration!”

That was also 2009 and 2010 when Democrats were in control of everything and it was easy to focus on them as the symbol of what's wrong with everything. Remember all the comments last year saying :’Just have Republicans take over control of congress that's all that matters’ ? Now we got split government again and they work together.

I easily called 2008 in early 2007/late 2006.
I easily called 2010 in late 2008.

A neighbor asked me about who will win in 2012. I told him
Republicans are mad at Democrats,
Democrats are mad at Republicans,
Democrats are mad at Democrats,
Republicans are mad at Republicans,
all while Rome is burning. Its a mess.

[Aevery_Freeman]

George Soros gave Minnesota Mark Ritchie for Secretary of state. This little gem gave to the nation:

Senator Al Franken.

[stephenjohnbanker]

’Just have Republicans take over control of congress that’s all that matters’ ? Now we got split government again and they work together. “

Republicans in D.C. have grown so accustomed to indentured servitude that nothing will change, barring a MAJOR housecleaning.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SJackson.

[Paleo Conservative]

Some States are passing new election laws but the real problem at the root of this articles complaints is federal laws passed like motor voter that Republicans never tried to repeal when in power, too busy trying to buy votes for the short term .

Even if all the Republicans in the senate stuck together, they couldn't get the 60 votes to get it repealed. Also there were quite a few RINOs who voted for Motor Voter. I'm sure quite a few RINOs would oppose its repeal.