voter fraud

Texas Republicans won a sizable federal grant with claims that they would root out widespread practices of voter fraud. In two years they've found 8 genuine cases of fraud (costing the federal government $187,500 per root-out; not exactly cost effective).

Mary Mancini isn’t a big fan of would-be first woman president Hillary Clinton this year but come 2016 she does have a gender specific suggestion for the nation’s high office:

Yesterday’s Sunday Times had an interesting piece about the next first woman president.

Way to prevent voter fraud, U.S. Supreme Court! Someone with the intials S-C-A-L-I-A is going to a very hot place when he dies. Really. Taking away what could be the last pleasurable act of participatory democracy from a 98-year-old nun? Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Great article (here) about the Supreme Court's Voter ID ruling this week. Here's an article excerpt--related to what could fairly be termed a bi-ideological decision:

Six months before the presidential election, the issue of ballot integrity is already a partisan battleground.

By a vote of 6 to 3, the US Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Indiana's Voter ID law on Monday.

In one sense the court left open challenges to Voter ID cases, but also placed emphasis on states to resolve election issues.

Two good case assessments from the SCOTUS blog note:

On the front page of their website, the Indiana state government is touting National Air Quality Awareness Week. Good thing because something there sure is stinky.

I recently wrote a post titled ‘Democrats Disenfranchise Tennessee Voters’.

From the Columbus Dispatch, apparently Rush Limbaugh isn't going to be charged with any crime for advocating that Ohio Republicans should commit voter fraud...money quote: