Three Lawyers Are Quietly Purging Voter Rolls

[gotsnowgotslush]

Three Lawyers Are Quietly Purging Voter Rolls

gsgs comment- Locking Democrats out of something that is of prime importance, to the poor, the elderly, minorities, the young

Christian Adams-

"after years of watching Civil Rights Division advance “leftist causes,” Sessions “has an opportunity to begin the course correction necessary to protect all Americans from civil rights abuses.” In light of this, Adams says, “the most important position General Sessions will fill in the DOJ is the [Assistant Attorney General] for Civil Rights.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...voter_fraud_want_jeff_sessions_to_change.html


Christopher Coates-

Christopher Coates, the chief of the Voting Rights Section of the Justice Department, was quietly reassigned to an 18-month detail in the U.S. attorney's office in Charleston, South Carolina.

Outraged conservatives quickly accused the Obama administration of reassigning Coates in order to cover up its dismissal of a voter-intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party that Coates supervised. Hans von Spakovsky, former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights under the Bush administration with a history of pushing for voting restrictions that disproportionately harm minority voters, said it was another sign of the Obama administration enforcing civil-rights laws on an "ideologically and politically biased basis.

http://prospect.org/article/battle-voting-rights-0

Robert Popper- In 2007, with Bush in office, he rose to Voting Section chief. Like Adams, Robert Popper joined the Voting Section in 2005 and later became Coates’ deputy. When he left the department in 2013, he joined the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, an early player in spearheading voter purge cases.


ACRU hired Coates as general counsel, and the two continue to partner on voter list purges

Tennessee Representative John S. Tanner, turns away from Democrats, and joins


DOJ report found that John Tanner, the former chief of the department's voting rights section, had told a colleague over email in 2004 that he liked his coffee "Mary Frances Berry style -- black and bitter." Berry, an African-American, was at the time the chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x511762


July 7, 2017

ACRU (Pseudo-Conservative version of legitimate ACLU) efforts to suppress the vote

Bradley Schlozman was found by the department’s inspector general to be illegally using political ideology to fill the Civil Rights Division with conservative lawyers.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics...ietly-purging-voter-rolls-across-the-country/

"Schlozman approvingly forwarded a racist joke by another political appointee, voting-section chief John Tanner.."


Schlozman, deploying a colorful metaphor, stated in an email that “My tentative plans are to gerrymander all of those crazy libs rights out of the [voting] section.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...politicized-hiring-scandal-at-justice/517002/


Pseudo-Conservatives use government positions, and low characters to force voter suppression

Ms. CLAUDIE HARRIS (President, ACORN, Kansas City): All we did was register low income people to vote so they can have a voice in this government. And if there's something wrong with that, my god, what is wrong in this country?

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=9981606

Pseudo- Conservatives use falsehoods, fraud, and data that is not legitimate

The Public Interest Legal Foundation, where he is president and general counsel, recently published a two-part investigation called “Alien Invasion,” claiming that more than 5,500 noncitizens had registered to vote in Virginia and cast thousands of fraudulent ballots. The data appears flawed. “Not just incredibly inflated; designed—and specifically designed—to get inaccurate information,” says Justin Levitt, an election law expert at the Loyola Law School and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Obama administration who reviewed the reports and underlying data. Still, Adams has taken to Fox News and other conservative outlets to publicize his reports.

http://bluevirginia.us/2017/06/fake-voter-fraud-report-debunked-woman-featured-front-page-article



The Public Interest Legal Foundation and Virginia Voters Alliance are again scrambling to defend the integrity of a willfully false and misleading “report” alleging rampant voter fraud in Virginia. Months after legislators embarrassingly debunked a 2016 report during a hastily called meeting, a subsequent report from the right-wing group is under fire for misrepresenting facts and data to the public and the media.

Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF)

Revelations appeared that PILF’s work was used online by white supremacists to justify their hate and bigotry. The founder of VVA routinely posts racist and sexist memes on social media.

http://lwv.org/press-releases/lwv-statement-kobach-request-voter-records

There’s nothing inherently wrong with creating a commission to address problems in our election system. The trouble is who is leading that commission: Vice President Mike Pence and, more importantly, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Far from a neutral figure, Kobach is a fierce advocate for harsh, restrictive voting laws. By itself, his presence is a sign that this commission is a sham, and that the drive for “confidence” is actually a push to raise the barriers to voting and participation.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_..._vote_fraud_commission_that_s_terrifying.html

League Opposes Kobach Request for Voter Records

WASHINGTON, DC- The request for voter records confirms fears of Kris Kobach continuing his tactics of voter suppression and the genesis of the Elections Integrity Commission in general. The League of Women Voters president, Chris Carson released this statement on the issue:

“There is no justification for this giant fishing expedition. The Commission itself is a distraction from the real issue of voter suppression, and that efforts to ‘investigate voter fraud’ threaten our most fundamental voting rights.

“This most recent move by Mr. Kobach is an indicator that the so-called Election ‘Integrity’ Commission is not interested in facts, but false accusations and dangerous policy recommendations.


http://lwv.org/press-releases/lwv-statement-kobach-request-voter-records


Donald Trump's so-called election integrity commission meets no standards for bipartisanship or fairness, Richard L. Hasen writes. Happily, though, “it's being enacted so clumsily it just might backfire.”

Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state who has been advising Trump on voter fraud issues-

Kobach has repeatedly lost in lawsuits against the American Civil Liberties Union on account of his actions to make it harder for people to register and vote. Just last week, a federal magistrate judge fined him $1,000 for misleading the court by attempting to shield a document regarding his advice to Trump on how to make voter registration harder.


http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...d_commission_is_itself_an_enormous_fraud.html


White House names unknowns to voting panel

The White House announced three new members of the panel late Wednesday: Mark Rhodes, the clerk for Wood County, West Virginia; David Dunn (pictured), an Arkansas lobbyist and former Democratic state lawmaker; and Luis Borunda, a deputy secretary of state for Maryland, and an appointee of Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican.

"...only Rhodes appears to have direct experience running elections — for a county with a population of just 86,000."

http://electionlawblog.org/?p=93341

 

[Iceprincess12]

Are the rolls kosher?

This seems longer than usual, took me several swipes to get to the bottom. What about pictures instead? They are worth 1000 words. You could even make some of them pretty or inappropriately sexual

 

[about_average]

Maybe they'll purge Trump's staff and family who're registered in multiple states.

 

[phrodeau]

Are the rolls kosher?

This seems longer than usual, took me several swipes to get to the bottom. What about pictures instead? They are worth 1000 words. You could even make some of them pretty or inappropriately sexual

I had kosher rolls once. I also had to purge them.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Voter rolls have to be purged periodically to reduce or prevent fraudulent voting. After all, people die or move away from jurisdictions or otherwise cease being eligible to vote in them.

I laughed when I read the quote from ACORN. This is the group that was notorious for all the fraudulent registrations in 2008, and probably other years too. I'm surprised they are even allowed to have anything to do with voter registrations.

 

[Chris_Michael]

Voter rolls have to be purged periodically to reduce or prevent fraudulent voting. After all, people die or move away from jurisdictions or otherwise cease being eligible to vote in them.

I laughed when I read the quote from ACORN. This is the group that was notorious for all the fraudulent registrations in 2008, and probably other years too. I'm surprised they are even allowed to have anything to do with voter registrations.

Holy shit, I totally forgot about ACORN.

 

[Wrong Element]

Thank God we're finally cracking down:


An Iowa woman pleaded guilty to election misconduct this week after being accused of illegally voting twice for Donald Trump last year, according to The Associated Press.

The woman, 56-year-old Terri Lynn Rote, reportedly cast a ballot during early voting in Polk County and attempted to cast a second one at a satellite voting location, where she was arrested. Rote told police she voted twice because she believed Trump’s claims that the 2016 election would be rigged and thought her first ballot would be changed to a vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton, according to CBS News.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/iowa-woman-donald-trump-voter-fraud_us_5961183ee4b0d5b458eacb54?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&section=politics&section=politics&section=politics&section=politics

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...rman-steve-curtis-charged-voter-fraud-n737141

If Steve Curtis, the former chairman of Colorado’s Republican Party, is still looking for an example of suspected voter fraud — all he has to do now is look into a mirror.

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1412933

 

[Iceprincess12]

I had kosher rolls once. I also had to purge them.

I bet they tasted better the 2nd time.

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.coloradoindependent.com/166227/colorado-voting-trump-unregister-confidential

Colorado is a state where its top elections manager, Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams, has welcomed a federal voter fraud task force’s request for input on potential federal policies. What has drawn greater controversy is that task force’s request that states provide the personal, but publicly available, information of voters.

Election officials across the state are reporting a spike in voters requesting confidential status. Others are unregistering altogether with plans to sign back up after July 14 when Williams sends Colorado’s voter data to the feds.

“There’s confusion, there’s hysteria,” says Amber McReynolds, the director of elections in Denver. In the past week her office has been flooded with calls and foot traffic. Denver has seen a 2,150 percent increase in voters cancelling their registration in recent days. There were 180 on July 6 alone.

“In over 12 years of administering elections I never expected to see a day in the office where we would have more withdrawals than new registrations— and that happened yesterday,” she told The Colorado Independent. “So, it’s real.”

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/po...al-information-of-voters/stories/201707170131

White House releases sensitive personal information of voters

The Trump White House on Thursday made public a trove of emails it received from voters offering comment on its Election Integrity Commission. The commission drew widespread criticism when it emerged into public view by asking for personal information, including addresses, partial social security numbers, and party affiliation, on every voter in the country.

Unfortunately for these voters and others who wrote in, the Trump administration did not redact any of their personal information from the emails before releasing them to the public. In some cases, the emails contain not only names, but email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers and places of employment of people worried about such information being made available to the public.

“This request is very concerning,” wrote one. “The federal government is attempting to get the name, address, birth date, political party, and social security number of every voter in the country.” That email, published by the White House, contained the sender’s name and home address.

“DO NOT RELEASE ANY OF MY VOTER DATA PERIOD,” wrote one voter whose name and email address was published by the White House.

“I removed my name from voter rolls. And I’m a Republican!” wrote one voter whose name was published by the White House.

 

[Iceprincess12]

Too bad you can't get purged from the mormon rolls as easily. Even the dead have to worry.

 

[phrodeau]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ut-election-integrity/?utm_term=.033f393a09b5

When I heard about the inaugural meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, I have to say that my confidence in the integrity of the voting processes used in Federal elections was enhanced. That is, until President Trump spoke.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

First public meeting of Trump's voter fraud commission

Trump opened his mouth, at the meeting-

Speaking to the commission, which comprises a mix of leading conservative advocates for more restrictive voting laws and state and local Democratic officials, Trump said of those state officials refusing to cooperate with the commission: “One has to wonder what are they worried about.”

(Trump knows nothing, cares about nothing, about the people he is charged with protecting. This would worry anyone in the position of authority in their own state, that cannot run away from responsibility, and blame. )


("There is something, Trump darkly hinted, "there always, is."- What is Trump hinting about ?


Is Trump hinting that the state officials are hiding voter fraud, in their states ?

AFAIK, Trump's White House has proved themselves to be highly insensitive, where they published all personal information on people that contacted the White House about the issue of having their private personal information made public! Why was the information made public ? No one at the White House could be bothered with stripping personal information from the comments American citizens made.

Who would hand citizen's information to these boneheads, when it is obvious that tampering with the vote, is not beyond the line you do not cross, with anyone connected with Trump ? Evil and stupid. Great combination! yikes)



Mendacity? It is the year of the Mendacious White House!

The first public meeting of Trump’s voter fraud panel was a horrifying parade of outright lies


http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...s_voter_fraud_panel_was_a_parade_of_lies.html


At the Democratic National Committee, Jason Kander, president of Let America Vote and former Missouri secretary of state, dubbed it (Trump's election integrity commission) "The Voter Suppression Committee to Re-Elect the President”.

He (the president of Let America Vote) told reporters: “This commission started as a way to try and legitimize, to try and justify the biggest lie that a sitting president has ever told. But it has morphed from there and what it has become now is just a vehicle for voter suppression.”)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...n-integrity-commission-voter-fraud-mike-pence


Big Lie, that will serve Trump's purposes-



Without evidence, Trump tells lawmakers 3 million to 5 million illegal ballots cost him the popular vote


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-him-the-popular-vote/?utm_term=.e4a2bde85398

The claim is not supported by any verifiable facts, and analyses of the election found virtually no confirmed cases of voter fraud, let alone millions.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity," he said. "You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror."

- George W. Bush

Transform that line to speak the truth about what McConnell and his intimate group of cronies would say...


"You're either with us or against us in the war against democracy."

 

[Boxlicker101]

I keep reading about the lack of voter fraud, but how can anybody know? The fact that not many people get caught doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Even worse, think of Registration Fraud.

When I read earlier about the involvement of ACORN, I got a big, but grim laugh out of it. Do you remember threads about the 2008 election, especially in MN? ACORN was tasked to go and collect new registrations, and they did. Mickey Mouse was registered several times, as were some other fictitious characters. These were eventually rejected but, the point is that ACORN turned them in to the Secretary of State. Obviously, the people registering voters were allowing fraud, as was ACORN.

Those were obviously bogus, but it proves no effort was being made to verify that people were who they said. Suppose, instead, an applicant had told the person writing the registrations that the name was William Jones, and had given an address? If Mickey Mouse was accepted, certainly William Jones would have been, and you can say the same thing for George Brown and Mary Jackson and the dozens of other names that could have been registered at that same address. On election Day, the people registered under those names, maybe dozens or more, could have come into the polling pace and voted dozens of times under different names. With no ID being requested, the people could have gotten away with the fraud.

I mentioned MN because the Sec. of State there, a Dem., made no effort to verify anything but the obvious phony registrations.

And that is one of the reasons why voter registration rolls must sometimes be purged.


ETA: https://us.search.yahoo.com/yhs/sea....0&os=Windows+10+Home&p=Minnesota+ACORN+fraud

 

[phrodeau]

I keep reading about the lack of voter fraud, but how can anybody know? The fact that not many people get caught doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Even worse, think of Registration Fraud.

When I read earlier about the involvement of ACORN, I got a big, but grim laugh out of it. Do you remember threads about the 2008 election, especially in MN? ACORN was tasked to go and collect new registrations, and they did. Mickey Mouse was registered several times, as were some other fictitious characters. These were eventually rejected but, the point is that ACORN turned them in to the Secretary of State. Obviously, the people registering voters were allowing fraud, as was ACORN.

Those were obviously bogus, but it proves no effort was being made to verify that people were who they said. Suppose, instead, an applicant had told the person writing the registrations that the name was William Jones, and had given an address? If Mickey Mouse was accepted, certainly William Jones would have been, and you can say the same thing for George Brown and Mary Jackson and the dozens of other names that could have been registered at that same address. On election Day, the people registered under those names, maybe dozens or more, could have come into the polling pace and voted dozens of times under different names. With no ID being requested, the people could have gotten away with the fraud.

I mentioned MN because the Sec. of State there, a Dem., made no effort to verify anything but the obvious phony registrations.

And that is one of the reasons why voter registration rolls must sometimes be purged.


ETA: https://us.search.yahoo.com/yhs/sea....0&os=Windows+10+Home&p=Minnesota+ACORN+fraud

*sigh* They turned in those bogus forms, because they were required by law to do so.

If a canvasser collects two hundred cards saying Fred Smith, it isn't up to him to decide that there can only be one Fred Smith, and the others are bogus.

 

[Hypoxia]

Irregular registrations happen. Not a few of Tromp's closest registered in multiple places. If irregular registration proves voter fraud, then those Tromp kin should be imprisoned.

But bogus registrations happen before, not during, voting. Casting illegitimate or multiple ballots is fraud. So far, one woman was caught voting more than once in 2016 -- votes for Tromp.

Most voter fraud is voter suppression. People legally entitled and registered to vote are prevented from doing so. This fraud is perpetrated by GOPs who know they can't win free and fair elections. Yes, imprison the fraudsters. Start with Tromp's commission.

BTW the Fauz New audience was convinced Acorn threw the 2012 election. Even though Acorn, falsely accused of wrongdoing, was disbanded in 2010. Go figure.

 

[Boxlicker101]

*sigh* They turned in those bogus forms, because they were required by law to do so.

If a canvasser collects two hundred cards saying Fred Smith, it isn't up to him to decide that there can only be one Fred Smith, and the others are bogus.

True, but they never should have been accepted in the first place. However, once they were turned in, the Sec. of State should have caught them but, being a Dem. and seeing the new registrations were all Dem. (The GOP ones were probably discarded by ACORN) he accepted them.

The Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck reg. would have been stopped somewhere, but the Fred Smith ones would have gone through. And so would all the other legit sounding names that would have all been listed at the same address. The person at the address could have then voted as many times, possibly in early voting or absentee, as there were registrations, giving themselves dozens of votes.

ACORN was not very honest, you know.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Irregular registrations happen. Not a few of Tromp's closest registered in multiple places. If irregular registration proves voter fraud, then those Tromp kin should be imprisoned.

But bogus registrations happen before, not during, voting. Casting illegitimate or multiple ballots is fraud. So far, one woman was caught voting more than once in 2016 -- votes for Tromp.

Most voter fraud is voter suppression. People legally entitled and registered to vote are prevented from doing so. This fraud is perpetrated by GOPs who know they can't win free and fair elections. Yes, imprison the fraudsters. Start with Tromp's commission.

BTW the Fauz New audience was convinced Acorn threw the 2012 election. Even though Acorn, falsely accused of wrongdoing, was disbanded in 2010. Go figure.

First, did you ever hear of motor voters? They are people who go to the DMV or other public place and register on election day, followed immediately by voting. Are those same voters registered at their homes? Who knows? The fact that people don't get caught doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

Second, how do you keep people fro voting? In Philly, armed thugs stand in front of polling places to deter anybody they don't like, but how about other places? And, how do you prevent people from legally voting with absentee ballots?

ETA: Here's something interesting about ACORN: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/22/voter.fraud/

Here's something else: They haven't disbanded; they have just changed their name: https://us.search.yahoo.com/yhs/sea..._ver=10.0&os=Windows+10+Home&p=ACORN+NEW+NAME

 

[Hypoxia]

Hypothesize all you want. Evidence has not been produced of more-than-minuscule voter fraud in the 2016 elections. We *do* have evidence of massive voter suppression, with legal citizens being prevented from registering or voting. That is intolerable.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Hypothesize all you want. Evidence has not been produced of more-than-minuscule voter fraud in the 2016 elections. We *do* have evidence of massive voter suppression, with legal citizens being prevented from registering or voting. That is intolerable.

It is intolerable, whether it is done by Dems or Reps. But how is it done, outside of threats, the way Dems do it?

 

[phrodeau]

It is intolerable, whether it is done by Dems or Reps. But how is it done, outside of threats, the way Dems do it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_United_States#Methods

Read it. There's no mention of Black Panthers or Acorn, neither.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Hypothesize all you want. Evidence has not been produced of more-than-minuscule voter fraud in the 2016 elections. We *do* have evidence of massive voter suppression, with legal citizens being prevented from registering or voting. That is intolerable.

Tell that to Bernie Sanders.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics...ietly-purging-voter-rolls-across-the-country/

Waging War on Democracy

After attacking communities too poor to fight back against a machine that won by making false accusations in the court of law, they proceeded to attack any community that would stand in the way of Republican domination.

The newest attack, is on a much grander scale


(This demand of information on voters, has been tried before...)


Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a Republican, said of Kobach's letter: "My reply would be: They can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico, and Mississippi is a great state to launch from. Mississippi residents should celebrate Independence Day and our state's right to protect the privacy of our citizens by conducting our own electoral processes."

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/30/hosemann-voter-records/444623001/

Pretending to be hunting for something, that is not there

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/29/the-voter-fraud-myth

Republicans did not like Jimmy Carter's ideas-

Far less attention was paid to what New Right organizer Paul Weyrich had said to warm up the crowd. “How many of our Christians have what I call the ‘goo goo’ syndrome — good government,” he mocked. “They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” Weyrich was a prolific founder of organizations and built an infrastructure of groups that lasted decades. One was the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a business-backed outfit that drafted proposals to be introduced by conservative state legislators.

http://billmoyers.com/story/whats-behind-the-gop-witch-hunt-for-voter-fraud/

Old Tyme Religion of Southern Baptists-

“It is interesting at great political rallies how you have to have a Protestant to pray, a Catholic to pray, and then you have a Jew to pray. With all due respect to those dear people, my friends, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew.”

(Ronald Reagan was pushed to disavow the man that spoke those words.)

gsgs comment-

What it amounts to, is that George W. Bush's poisonous regime had spawned a group that fought dirty, unfairly, and did not care about ethics or morality.

What designation, would you give to a group that victimized America's tiny hamlets and little villages ? Not every country setting in America, is a vacation retreat for the wealthy, or a seat of inherited wealth.

"Sign this paper, or we will persecute your tiny sanctuary!" What kind of proposition is that to make, to a town that has no wealth to fight back, with ?

ACRU inn Mississippi, crushes county with prolonged and costly litigation.

2007, a federal judge issued an opinion that black political leaders in Noxubee County violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by discriminating against white voters.


J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, the legal arm of the American Civil Rights Union

ACRU attorney Henry Ross
Noxubee County Election Commission attorney Wilbur Colom, for the rights of the community persecuted by ACRU


The letter to the county alleged that the county was violating a federal law that requires states to keep their rolls up to date. The commissioners maintained that they were following the law.


Fall 2015

The ACRU’s attorneys began to push the commission to sign a consent decree that would commit the county to vigorous vetting of its registered voter list in order to avoid a lawsuit. Among its provisions, the draft decree would require the commission to send a non-forwardable notice to all registered voters asking them to confirm their eligibility. Every voter who did not fill it out and return it would be put on a list of inactive voters, and anyone on that list who failed to vote in two federal elections would be removed from the rolls.

The letter from the letter from ACRU does not seem to be unreasonable. But, it is pitting the rigidity of law against the reality of human beings-

If a third of the population are poverty stricken people, that are living irregular lives, with no official address, it makes it impossible to sign such an agreement. The "irregular" citizens may be hardworking, decent, law-abiding, and well known to the local townspeople. Why should they be denied the right to vote ?

A simple, small detail - address of voter

The town did not have the resources to search out each voter, door-to-door. It did not have the resources to get a voter's campaign organized.

The rigidity of the law is pitted against the reality of human beings

November 2015

The ACRU filed a lawsuit against the commission in federal court, alleging that there were 9,271 names on the registered voter list in a county with just 8,245 eligible voters. The case docket was notably one-sided. The ACRU would file motions, and the commission—still lawyer-less—would fail to respond. Five months after filing the suit, the ACRU moved for a default judgement against the commission.

ACRU wants to get their way, and they insist-


Civil and Human Rights Coalition: Trump-Pence-Kobach Voter Suppression Efforts are Underway

June 29, 2017

It is not normal for the Department of Justice to ask for voting data from all states covered by the National Voter Registration Act. It’s likely that this is instead the beginning of an effort to force unwarranted voter purges. The fact that the Justice Department letter coincides with the Kobach letter should cause voters serious concern. Kris Kobach is a man with an agenda and a history of discriminatory and regressive views on voting rights. We are particularly concerned that these calls for information may be used to wrongly remove eligible Black and Hispanic voters from the rolls through the problematic process known as Crosscheck.

The integrity of our elections is indeed under assault – just not in the way that Donald Trump claims. Instead of wasting taxpayer dollars with a new effort led by two Republicans to promote President Trump’s highly questionable and thoroughly discredited voting agenda, the American people deserve to know how Russia interfered with our last election and how we can fix the serious obstacles eligible voters face to fully participate in our democracy.”

http://civilrights.org/civil-human-...ce-kobach-voter-suppression-efforts-underway/

Winter 2017

Jan. 25, 2017


Noxubee County Election Commission attorney Wilbur Colom of Columbus said Wednesday there was no admission of any violation of the National Voting Rights Act.

"In fact, there was no showing that any illegal ballots had ever been cast," Colom said.

Colom said the Election Commission was adamant that they followed the statutes in maintaining their voter rolls.

"...they concluded that the expense to send out the notice to around 2,000 voters who have not cast ballots in five years and generally agreeing to continue their best efforts to improve the voter rolls was a low price to pay to jettison this litigation," Colom said. "This process will cost less than $10,000.00."


http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...bee-county-agrees-purge-voter-rolls/97039148/

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...s-macon-really-nations-poorest-city/86800520/

Small counties, small cities, small towns, small hamlets, not yet alienated, detached, impersonal- but are they now divided by race, social class, political affiliation, and religion ?

A citizen that lives in Macon, richer, bigger, and provided with better infrastucture, than Noxubee, asks : "Is Macon really the nation's poorest city ?" If that question was asked, how poor was Noxubee ?

Is Macon really the nation's poorest city ?

gsgs comment-

Macon was proud to send a tractor, to be parked on the White House South Lawn, for this year's promotion- "Made in America Day, this week.(Aerway Manufacturing )Perhaps the sent a tractor trailer, too.

Every county,city, and town suffered setbacks after the Wall St. crash of 2007- 2008. A hard scramble to keep everything from skidding off into a ditch, despite the cutbacks. What kind of recovery was made ? Macon boasts of improvements, and a city coming back to life. They are hoping for better days, ahead.


"...63-year-old James Wesley “Jimmy” Holley, a fine man, was mowing grass at his farm about 10 miles from Macon. He was attacked by a swarm of bees and died."

"I was in Macon on Thursday afternoon to report this story, along with a buddy of mine who also grew up in Noxubee. We decided to go by Cockrell Funeral Home and pay our respects at the visitation. When we got there, the line stretched to the edge of the street."

"...I hated to hear about that happening,” Mickens said. “I had never fooled with gardening when I was a child but wanted to learn. (Holley) taught me. He showed me how to grow peas, how to grow butter beans."

James Wesley (Jimmy) Holley, 63, of Shuqualak, MS passed away at his farm on Tuesday, July 12, 2016


Jimmy Holley was born on August 10, 1952 in Macon to the late James W. and Mattie Flora Holley and lived his entire life in Noxubee County. He was a graduate of Noxubee County High School. He entered the U.S. Army and served 2 years in active service and two years in the Reserve. During his stint of active service he was stationed in Germany for eighteen months. After he returned home, he married Betsy Watt on July 19, 1974 and began working for Shuqualak Lumber Company.