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Glenn Kessler, the so-called “fact checker” at The Washington Post , this week called out Vice President Mike Pence’s answer to an interview question about election fraud. But it’s Kessler, not Pence, who deserves four “Pinocchios” for many of the misleading claims he makes about it in his column. Pence said: “Make no mistake about it. The reality of voter fraud is undeniable. We’ve seen case after case around the country where there have been prosecutions.” Kessler concentrates on a case in Indiana that the vice president—a former governor of that state—mentioned in passing, and the dispute is over the...

Wouldn’t it be nice if just once, some of the people whom Soros pays to tell us that voter fraud doesn’t exist admitted they were wrong? What if government documents were produced to show at least 1,000 instances of voter fraud showing aliens registering or voting in a key swing state? Would they recant? That’s asking too much. They earn their salaries by pretending voter fraud is a myth, and convincing others in the media to parrot their lies. So today we learn that in the key swing state of Virginia, voter registration rollshave been polluted with an excess of...

The Hillary Clinton campaign on Sunday announced a voter registration effort led by illegal immigrants on the four year anniversary of President Barack Obama’s executive action to protect illegal aliens from deportation. According to a statement the campaign launched “‘Mi Sueño, Tu Voto’ (My Dream, Your Vote), to organize DREAMers to mobilize their communities and ask voters to consider what is at stake for their families in November.” “DREAMers have played a pivotal role in our campaign, advocating for families who constantly live in fear of deportation–so we’ve created a program that aims to turn these stories into action,” Lorella...

About a year ago Red Dirt Report posted about some documents found in an abandoned ACORN office On the second floor of an old building in South Oklahoma City “Little Mexico” neighborhood, there is a room that until recently, housed a branch of ACORN... Left hurriedly and in a shambles, the small office, coated in a layer of plaster dust, still housed computers, documents, registration forms, I-9 employment info and boxes with an IRS return address and others with a return address for an ACORN office in New Orleans. The person working at this office, Adam Carter, had reportedly skipped...

Who could possibly be against cutting voter fraud on election day? When Georgia's Republican Governor Sonny Perdue recently signed a bill to reduce voter fraud, under which voters must show a photo ID before casting their ballots, many of Georgia's black legislators stormed out in protest.  They even threatened to sue, saying it will keep legitimate voters from being able to cast their ballot.  The wife and son of Martin Luther King Jr. joined Democratic speakers Monday at the Martin Luther King ceremony in condemning the bill. And in Wisconsin, Democratic Governor Jim Doyle vetoed a bill that would...

Party asserts that potential for fraud is too great in state By STEVE SCHULTZE sschultze@journalsentinel.com Posted: Nov. 3, 2004 With the dust from the presidential race still settling - and Wisconsin barely dodging Florida's fate in 2000 - Republicans on Wednesday renewed calls for tightening voting laws to lessen the potential for election fraud. State Republican Party Chairman Rick Graber and Assembly Speaker John Gard called for changing the law to require voters to show a picture ID card before being allowed to vote. They said that problems Republicans uncovered in Milwaukee underscored the need for the change. GOP officials...

Republican leaders say the Secretary of State should consider resigning. It's the latest in a controversy over voter registration cards. Here's the issue. On the top of the form it asks the person if he or she is a U.S. Citizen. A check in the box is required. Toward the bottom of the form the same question is asked. This time the person must sign his or her name. Here in Iowa some 350 people forgot to check the box but they did sign their name on the form. Last week, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said those who signed...

CLEVELAND - The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections said the woman in charge of the absentee ballots resigned, NewsChannel5 reported. Board of Elections Director Michael Vu said Sondra Robinson did not say why she was resigning. Robinson worked for the board of elections for three years.

Something To Yak About - Democrat Pre-Election Lawsuits Calculated Political StrategyWith Democrat lawyers and their Left Wing allies taking legal action across the country in advance of the November 2 election, a question over provisional ballots is looming large. The Wall Street Journal Friday warns that Democrats may try to use the provisional ballot process, which is available to those who don't meet the standard (not registered, no ID, etc) to affect the outcome of the election. So how does that play out? According to the WSJ, "Someone could now presumably cast provisional votes in several Ohio precincts on Election...

Gov. Bush Calls Reports Of Voter Registration Fraud 'Bizarre' POSTED: 5:40 pm EDT October 20, 2004 UPDATED: 5:41 pm EDT October 20, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Jeb Bush says he's bothered by reports of possible fraud involving some voter registration forms that have been turned in across the state. Election supervisors in a few counties have reported that the party affiliation of some voters have been changed without their approval. One of those cases was in Alachua County. The elections supervisor there gave more than 500 voter registration forms to local prosecutors. Some of the people whose names were...

Yesterday, I drove by the welfare department in Bakersfield, California to see if anyone was registering voters there (as sometimes is the case). Sure enough, there was a democrat voter registration table. Now, hold your fire on the location. In all fairness, we Republicans have sometimes registered voters at the welfare office, though with probably far less of a natural constituency. Anyways, I parked, walked up, and listened to a woman I will refer to as "Rat-lady" as she attempted to register voters. A woman I will refer to as Maisha came over to the table to register to vote....

Sneaky voter-drive employees are to blame for submitting hundreds of faulty registration applications in Colorado, said an official with the nonprofit organization that mobilized the effort. These workers were able to thwart the drive's system of checks and balances, said Jim Fleischmann, regional coordinator of the voting registration effort of the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now, commonly known as ACORN. But he stressed that it was only a small number of employees involved in the deception and a small percentage of the total voters the organization registered. ACORN was one of several organizations across the country to aggressively...

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, citing vote-fraud concerns, is publicly balking at a City of Milwaukee request for almost 260,000 additional ballots in anticipation of high turnout for the Nov. 2 presidential election. Mayor Tom Barrett blasted Walker's stance, and Common Council President Willie Hines Jr. immediately joined in, saying it was an attempt to suppress the central-city vote. "I'm going to lay this at the footsteps of the county if there aren't enough ballots in the city," said Barrett. Barrett said that the 679,000 ballots the county had agreed to print were less than the amount prepared for the...

DENVER -- Some 6,000 prisoners and felons on parole are on the state's voter registration rolls, The Denver Post reported Sunday. State law bars prisoners serving sentences or convicted felons who are on parole from voting. The Post reported that Secretary of State Donetta Davidson plans to convene an emergency meeting this week of Colorado's 64 county clerks to stop prisoners and parolees from voting on Nov. 2. Some prisoners and parolees voted in the August primary. "I had no idea we had that type of numbers," Davidson said. "You have to wonder if they're malicious or inept in the...

ATTENTION VOTERS who have recently registered: Accurate identification data may not have been properly relayed to the Election Commission office for registration. Therefore, it would be advisable for you to be prepared to re-register with identification on election day. (The warning is in red, which I don't know how to duplicate)

Deputy registrar system, intended for accountability, seen as a loophole A program that should make the state's voter registration system more secure might be partly to blame for possible fraud problems that have surfaced in Racine. Irregularities with voter registration applications appear to be isolated. But because of the way the deputy registrar program works in Wisconsin, the problems may simply be hidden. In Racine, the district attorney's office is investigating seven voter registration applications filed by Project Vote in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. The applications had been filed by Project Vote workers...

Some folks rooting for Bush are worried about two recent New York Times articles. Article one on Sept 26 reported: A sweeping voter registration campaign in heavily Democratic areas has added tens of thousands of new voters to the rolls in the swing states of Ohio and Florida, a surge that has far exceeded the efforts of Republicans in both states, a review of registration data shows. Article two in today‘s paper reports: In the state's 20 most populous counties, which account for about 60 percent of the vote, more than 140,345 absentee ballots had been applied for as of...

New voters are flooding local election offices with paperwork, registering in significantly higher numbers than four years ago as attention to the presidential election runs high and an array of activist groups recruit would-be voters who could prove critical come Nov. 2. Cleveland has seen nearly twice as many new voters register so far as compared with 2000; Philadelphia is having its biggest boom in new voters in 20 years; and counties are bringing in temporary workers and employees from other agencies to help process all the new registration forms. Nationwide figures aren't yet available, but anecdotal evidence shows an...

About 200 "citizens" who don't exist registered to vote in Davidson County for the Nov. 2 presidential election and now the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating the person who submitted those forms on behalf of Tennessee Citizen Action (TCA). The false cards are believed to be the work of a temporary employee hired by Tennessee Citizen Action, a consumer advocacy group working to push voter registration. Voter registration fraud is a felony. TBI spokesperson Jennifer Johnson confirmed Monday that District Attorney General Torry Johnson asked her department last week to investigate the incident and that investigation is ongoing. "Believe...