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Newly-Elected Democrats Let Their Masks Slip, Revealing the Fascists Beneath

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By Townhall. Since the 2018 elections, we have seen a lot of stupid people electing Democrats in state and local elections, and since the garbage Democrats have the garbage Midas touch – everything they come in contact with turns to a Scat Francisco sidewalk – these dumb voters are now suffering the consequences of their misguided trust in these aspiring authoritarians. Democrats win when rich donors pump money into races behind candidates who pretend not to be the gimps of the hard-left cabal that actually runs the party. And the radicals who got elected pretending to be not-insane are getting into office and doing all the insane stuff we warned the voters they would do.

There are no “moderate” Democrats. All Democrats are dangerous to your life, prosperity and freedom. They prefer churchgoers die rather than be able to defend themselves. They want newly-prosperous frackers to learn to code. They want you jailed for denying the climate cult or the fact that there are men and there are women and there is nothing else. . .

OK, then ask a Democrat candidate who is more important, Americans or foreigners who sneak in here. Go ahead. Once again, not a single significant Democrat will unequivocally say, “American citizens are more important than foreigners, especially criminals who break our laws to sneak in here.” Democrats (and sappy Ahoy-crew Fredocons like Jeb!, the “Act of Love” guy) support the foreigners, whose health care they want us to subsidize. . .

Let’s talk criminals. Democrats prefer them to you. Crazy? Are the Democrats always talking about how mean we are to crooks, or about the effect of crooks on your life? In California, idiot voters essentially decriminalized crime. Steal under $950 a day and you’re fine – they would even bother to file charges. Oh, and feel free to shoot up on the sidewalk and leave the needles around – remember, it’s the junkies who are the real victims. You, the normal people, have no recourse and no one has your back. You get to deal with bums, hobos and derelicts on your streets – just make sure that when you step around them you don’t topple over into a pile of human dung. (Read more from “Newly-Elected Democrats Let Their Masks Slip, Revealing the Fascists Beneath” HERE)

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Ranking the Democrats: Who Has Best Chance of Winning Nomination?

By The Hill. The battle for the Democratic nomination is nearing crunch time with roughly one month left before the Iowa caucuses. . .

1. Former Vice President Joe Biden (July ranking: 2)

2. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) (July ranking: 4)

3. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) (July ranking: 1)

4. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (July ranking: 5)

(Read more from “Ranking the Democrats: Who Has Best Chance of Winning Nomination?” HERE)

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NOVEMBER IS COMING: I Don’t Want You to Get Paranoid About the Midterms, but It’s Time to Get Paranoid About the Midterms

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By Doug Ross. If you don’t show up in November, these will be your new leaders in Congress:

Impeachment proceedings? Non-stop subpoenas? More appeasement of China and Iran? Marxists in Congress?

Start mobilizing your family, your friends, your colleagues now. It is our mission to send these Communists packing in November. If you don’t turn out, if we don’t turn out, the #MAGA experiment is over.

Volunteer. And vote in November Like Your Life Depends On It. (For more from the author of “November Is Coming: I Don’t Want You to Get Paranoid About the Midterms, but It’s Time to Get Paranoid About the Midterms” please click HERE)
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What to Expect if the Democrats Win the Midterms

By Robert Oscar Lopez. Would conservatives achieve an easy victory against the left if it came down to civil war? The question seems less absurd by the day as tensions increase between the right and left. Many conservative writers seem to think the left would fold quickly and the right would triumph.

One has good reason to doubt that. Consider basic issues like political bias in universities, or religious integrity. After decades of exposés and outcries from conservatives over liberal tyranny, universities are as biased as they ever were. Past cases of anti-conservative persecution (including mine) remain unaddressed.

Meanwhile, in the world of Masterpiece Cakeshop, conservatives celebrate a largely toothless victory at the Supreme Court over a wedding cake for two men. While a small fortune went to defending a Colorado pastry chef who wouldn’t make a cake for a ceremony approximating a wedding, a dozen states have banned “conversion therapy” in terms so broad that many church ministries will be outlawed.

The LGBT movement is no longer worried about taking over state legislatures to stop religious liberty laws. Soon they won’t have to do that. They are gaining in power at the denominational governance level of Christian churches and changing doctrine so religious liberty will not even be an issue. The religious position itself will be so thoroughly corrupted that no Christians will have “deeply felt” convictions against homosexuality.

I am nowhere near as confident as Kurt Schlichter that the right wing could trounce the left wing in battle. . . It is true that conservatives have more guns and are probably better street fighters. But conservatives also cave in large numbers even when their most sacred cows are in danger – such as the First Amendment or Christian principles. The two latter issues sit at the core of academic bias and debates on sexuality, respectively. I have the war wounds from both battles and can attest to the repeating scenario: conservatives talk and talk about what they believe and how bad the left is. Then they give up droves when it comes time to fight. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Microsoft Uncovers New Russian Hacking Attempts Targeting Republicans Ahead of Midterm Elections

By AP. Microsoft said Tuesday it has uncovered new Russian hacking attempts targeting U.S. political groups ahead of the midterm elections.

The company said that a hacking group tied to the Russian government created fake internet domains that appeared to spoof two American conservative organizations: the Hudson Institute and the International Republican Institute. Three other fake domains were designed to look as if they belonged to the U.S. Senate. . .

The revelation came just weeks after a similar Microsoft discovery led Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who is running for re-election, to reveal that Russian hackers tried unsuccessfully to infiltrate her Senate computer network. (Read more from “Microsoft Uncovers New Russian Hacking Attempts Targeting Republicans Ahead of Midterm Elections” HERE)

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The Religious Vote and Why It Mattered

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Pundits and pollsters long said the Christian demographic would be important to Donald Trump’s chances at the presidency, and exit polling results would appear to prove the Christian vote was critical to Donald Trump’s stunning win.

According to New York Times exit polling, 58 percent of Protestants or other non-Catholic Christians voted for Trump, while 52 percent of Catholics voted for him. Only 24 percent of Jewish voters cast a ballot for Trump, while 26 percent of those with no religious affiliation did the same.

White evangelicals showed up in a big way — at their highest margin since 2004. And fully 81 percent of white evangelical Christians voted for Trump. Black evangelicals seemed to prefer Clinton leading up to the election, but in the end, Clinton did not capture the majority of their votes, reported Christianity Today.

Of those who attend religious services, 56 percent of those attending weekly services voted for Trump, 49 percent of those attending services a few times monthly did the same, 47 percent of those who attended religious services a few times per year voted for Trump and 31 percent of those who never attended religious services voted for him.

Donald Trump’s Christian voters may have turned out largely due to his acknowledgement of the demographic while his opponent principally ignored them. Clinton only captured a fraction of what Obama did during his elections, reported Christianity Today, but Trump saw a strong base in the key states of Ohio, North Carolina and Florida.

Even Obama’s former faith adviser tweeted about Clinton’s disconnect with the white evangelicals:

Now that the election is behind the nation, plenty remains on the political horizon for Christians. Rev. Dr. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, said the nation must put the divisiveness in the past and work together. “Instead of the agenda of the donkey or the elephant, Christians must be about the Lamb’s agenda,” Rodriguez said. He added:

Looking ahead, now is the time to rise up as people of faith and as an independent voice that holds political leaders on both sides of the aisle accountable to policies that don’t aim left or right, but toward righteousness and justice, for all. Chief of which remains our concern for religious liberty, the sanctity of life, immigration reform and racial unity. We pray for the safe keeping of our democracy as we transition to the new Donald Trump administration and we pray that God will continue to bless and prosper our nation in the coming months and years ahead.

David Jeremiah, founder of Turning Point and senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church in California urged Christians to pray for the new administration and keep their eyes on their ultimate citizenship — heaven. He added:

“We commit to pray for the new Trump administration. We pray that God might have mercy on our nation and that our leaders might know and fear Him, for as the Scriptures say, blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord … Presidents come and go, but our God remains forever and he will be on his throne on November 9 as he was on November 8 and as he will be for all of eternity.”

(For more from the author of “The Religious Vote and Why It Mattered” please click HERE)

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If Voting Is Sacred, Early Voting Must Go

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Let’s work backward.

Less than a week before the election, the Wall Street Journal and Fox News’ Bret Baier reported that the Clinton Foundation has been under investigation for “pay-for-play” allegations for over a year — and that the Department of Justice may have been trying to monkey-wrench the effort.

Eleven days before the election, FBI Director James Comey announced that he was reopening the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails. A few days before that, WikiLeaks dropped a bombshell of a hacked memo showing the full extent of “Clinton Inc.” — the tawdry, tacky and some would argue criminal web of for-profit, nonprofit and political entities that make up the Clinton empire. A couple weeks before that, NBC News released a tape of Donald Trump describing how he likes to sexually assault women. Since then, nearly a dozen women have come forward describing treatment that closely tracks the behavior Trump himself described in an unguarded moment.

Those are just the highlights.

Both candidates have also made controversial statements about their policies and philosophies. In the third debate, Clinton refused to support any limitations on even late-term abortions. She also claimed that the longtime gun ban in Washington, D.C., ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Heller decision, was really just an effort to keep toddlers from getting their hands on guns.

And Trump? Well, let’s just say he’s said a lot of things.

And you know what else happened during all of this? People have been voting. A lot.

Early-voting start times vary by state and often by county. In Minnesota, people started casting ballots in September. In Ohio, voting began just five days after the Access Hollywood tape surfaced, three days after the second presidential debate and a week before the final debate. As of this writing, more than 22 million people have voted already. In all, an estimated 40 percent of voters will cast ballots before Election Day.

And that’s nuts.

Before you rush to the safety of the usual argument, let me admit that, of course, some early and absentee voting is necessary. Obviously, overseas military personnel and voters with certain disabilities should be accommodated. But defending their right to vote absentee is not a defense of mass-scale early voting.

The standard argument against widespread early voting is that it encourages many people to make their decisions without important information available to the voters who wait until Election Day. That’s really not debatable, so early-voting supporters concede the point and then say it just doesn’t matter. They note that the people most likely to cast early votes are committed partisans, immune to new facts and information. There’s surely some truth to that, but as the scale of early voting increases with each year, it must also be less and less true every year. Also, one might wonder why people who decry the rise of ideological polarization and partisanship are so eager to make it easier for hardcore partisans to vote.

Comey’s bombshell is a perfect illustration of how new facts can make a hash of things. Trump is imploring people who’ve already cast their votes for Clinton to remedy their “buyer’s remorse” and switch to Trump — which is legal in six states. The problem is worse in the primaries. Voters often cast early ballots for candidates who drop out before Election Day. That’s real voter suppression.

But my main problem with early voting is different. Every day we hear pious actors, activists and politicians talk about the solemn and sacred duty to vote, and yet everyone wants to make voting easier and more convenient. Many still dream of the most cockamamie idea of all: online voting, so we can make choosing presidents as easy as buying socks on Amazon.

This gets human nature exactly backward. Nothing truly important, never mind sacred and solemn, should be treated as a trivial convenience. Churches that ask more of the faithful do better at attracting and retaining congregants. The Marines get the best and most committed recruits because th1ey have higher standards. Elite schools demand more from students and get more as a result. No wonder one study found that early voting actually lowers turnout because it makes Election Day seem like a less special event.

Of course we shouldn’t put up any insurmountable obstacles to voting. But if we want citizens to value their vote, why are we constantly lowering the price? (For more from the author of “If Voting Is Sacred, Early Voting Must Go” please click HERE)

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GOP Judge Paves Road for Thousands of Potential Non-Citizens Voting in Kansas

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Despite news percolating throughout the country about non-citizens registering to vote under loose Motor-Voter practices, the courts are refusing to allow states to verify citizenship as a condition for registering to vote. Yesterday, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court’s injunction against a Kansas law requiring those registering with federal Motor-Voter forms to show proof of citizenship. The original injunction forced the state to register 20,000 individuals who failed to show proof of citizenship.

Now, that number could rise to 50,000.

In September, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the arrangement that Kansas and several other states worked out with U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) — the agency responsible for drafting the federal voter registration forms — to accommodate those states and provide space on the federal form to require proof of citizenship. Yesterday, the Tenth Circuit, in a unanimous decision, upheld an injunction against the state law itself, which requires proof of citizenship in order to register.

The three-judge panel, which included a Republican-appointee (surprise surprise!), used the typical tactics of the judicial tyrants to crush the states. They asserted that by complimenting federal law with the most basic integrity measures needed to fulfill the law’s mandate for clean rolls, the state was in fact violating federal law. This is similar to the shtick the court uses against states that wish to compliment federal immigration law. Courts have ruled that states cannot do anything to protect the sovereignty and the franchise of their citizens unless it is explicitly provided for in the most literal terms by the federal statutes.

They have it exactly backwards.

States have full power over protecting elections, especially in light of the existential threat of non-citizens voting, unless the statute explicitly bars them from doing so.

This decision doesn’t even give the veneer of respect for constitutional powers of states and basic statutory construction. “This opinion by the Tenth Circuit is divorced from the facts and the law and is just another example of federal courts interfering with the constitutional authority of states to administer their elections and determine the qualifications and eligibility of their voters,” said Hans von Spakovsky, a Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. “This deplorable decision ignored the overwhelming evidence that noncitizens are illegally registering and voting in our elections and gives them a green light to continue their illicit behavior, which steals votes from eligible American voters.”

Judge Jerome Holmes, the George W. Bush appointee who wrote the opinion, asserted that because Section 5 of the Motor Voter law provides that states only require “the minimum amount of information necessary” on the registration form in order to assess eligibility, by asking for proof of citizenship Kansas had violated the statute. In Judge Holmes’s estimation, proof of citizenship is some gratuitous and burdensome requirement. After all, you could simply work on the honor system and just ask them nicely if they are U.S. citizens. Evidently, Judge Holmes and his two colleagues, along with the district judge and the D.C. Circuit, believe that the minimum requirement to assess any eligibility in life dictates that the service should be provided without any verification. Trust, and don’t verify!

While conceding that the state had an interest in ensuring non-citizens don’t vote, Judge Holmes asserted that states must provide “a simple means of registering to vote in federal elections,” and evidently, requiring proof of citizenship is not “simple.” He warned that the federal law was “designed to increase the number of eligible voters who register and vote.”

Well, yes, but not for non-citizens!

Section 8 of the law requires states to “make a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters” [52 U.S.C. § 20507(a)(4)(B)]. If states can’t ask for photo ID when voting to weed out fraud, proof of citizenship up front when registering, or removal of names of dead voters without going through an endless, cumbersome process fraught with lawsuits – how can a state maintain clean rolls?

This is part of a growing trend we warned about with judges molly-coddling the American people, essentially requiring states to hold their hands all the way to the polls, asserting that anything short of what Democrats want is tantamount to suppressing the vote.

We are strangers in our own land when states can’t protect against voter fraud. As we noted earlier this month, a 2014 study concluded that up to 6.4 percent of all non-citizens participated in the 2008 elections and up to 14.7 percent voted that year, likely changing the outcome of some Senate races. In 2012, a Pew analysis warned that 1 in 8 registrations were no longer valid or have significant inaccuracies.

Remember, non-citizen registration is the worst form of voter fraud because the requirement for photo ID doesn’t even help. Even in the states where the courts haven’t blocked photo ID (yes, that is a burden too!), there is now no way to protect against non-citizens voting. They already get their driver’s licenses and are handed voter registration forms. As long as they are dishonest and simply check the box saying they are citizens, they can walk into a polling place and show ID demonstrating they are the person they claim to be. There is no way to verify citizenship once they are registered without showing a birth certificate or naturalization papers.

Once again, we have a Republican judge writing a radical decision flipping state powers on its head and bastardizing a statute.

Repeat after me: THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY IS IRREMEDIABLY BROKEN and MUST BE REFORMED WHOLESALE. Otherwise, even when we have competitive candidates at a national level, states will have no power to prevent non-citizens from determining the outcome. (For more from the author of “GOP Judge Paves Road for Thousands of Potential Non-Citizens Voting in Kansas” please click HERE)

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What Top Senators Want to Know About Obama’s Push to OK New Citizens to Vote

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The branch manager for the Houston office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services seemed clear about the reason and timing for asking staff to work overtime to push through more citizenship applications.

“The field office due to the election year needs to process as many of their N-400 cases as possible between now and FY 2016,” the manager said in an email to staff dated July 21, 2016, and referring to applications for citizenship called N-400 forms.

The email message from the Customs and Immigration Services supervisor offered overtime, including weekends, as an incentive to process more applications:

If you have cases in this category or other pending, you are encouraged to take advantage of the OT if you can. This will be an opportunity to move your pending naturalization cases. If you have not volunteered for OT, please consider and let me know if you are interested.

In Congress, Republican lawmakers are concerned this is a rerun from 20 years ago. In 1996, congressional Republicans accused the Clinton administration of rushing through the citizenship process to register new voters, many likely to vote Democrat, as part of a program called Citizenship USA.

The manager’s email to Customs and Immigration Services employees was made public by the offices of Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis.

Such an apparent rush to citizenship is a particular concern to the senators because of a report from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general that found Customs and Immigration Services granted citizenship to almost 900 individuals with deportation orders who used false names.

Politics has nothing to do with increased processing of citizenship applications, according to Obama administration officials.

“USCIS’s goal is to process applications for naturalization within five to seven months, regardless of external events such as elections,” Department of Homeland Security spokesman Shin Inouye told The Daily Signal in an email, referring to U.S. Customs and Immigration Services. Inouye added:

USCIS uses statistical forecasting models to plan for the potential increased volume of work. USCIS anticipated that there would be a spike in applications this year, as we usually see in an election year, but the increase in N-400 applications has exceeded expectations.

The agency “certainly encourages our naturalized citizens to be active participants in our democracy,” Inouye said. “However, like other citizens, no new U.S. citizen is required to register to vote, or participate in any election.”

More evidence is needed than a single email, but the matter warrants investigation, said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Study, which advocates strong enforcement of immigration law.

“If you look at the whole country, these are not many votes,” Krikorian told The Daily Signal in a phone interview. “But a few thousand can make a lot of difference.” He said:

[George W.] Bush won Florida with 500 votes [in 2000]. Al Franken won his Minnesota Senate seat by just a few hundred votes. If it’s close, a really small number of improper voters can make a big difference. Apart from that, there is the principle that there should be higher standards for citizenship.

The two Senate committee chairmen sent a letter Sept. 21 to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to inquire about what appeared to be a rush. Grassley and Johnson write:

We write to express serious concern about an apparent push by your department to rush the adjudication of naturalization applications before the upcoming presidential election, presumably in an attempt to create as many new citizen voters as possible. …

Your department seems intent on approving as many naturalization cases as quickly as possible at a time when it should instead be putting on the brakes and reviewing past adjudications, especially in light of this week’s Office of Inspector General report that found USCIS granted U.S. citizenship to at least 858 individuals from “special interest” countries (i.e. countries that are of concern to the national security of the United States) or countries with high rates of immigration fraud, who had final deportation orders under another identity.

“We sincerely hope history is not repeating itself,” Grassley and Johnson write, noting the Clinton administration’s actions 20 years ago.

In 1996, congressional investigators found a letter from a Chicago alderman to the White House, saying its Citizenship USA program could “provide the Democrats with a strategic advantage” and that “people stuck in Chicago’s naturalization bottleneck represent thousands of potential voters.”

Helle Dale, an immigrant from Denmark, won her approval for citizenship in 1996, that same year. Dale recalls the time between her application and an interview was “insanely fast” under the Citizenship USA initiative overseen by then-Vice President Al Gore, and says she believes history is repeating itself.

Dale, a former journalist who is now a senior fellow for public diplomacy at The Heritage Foundation, says that politicizing the citizenship process would be highly unethical.

“It may not be illegal, but it is a national security concern,” Dale told The Daily Signal. “I really think, because of an election campaign, to rush through the citizenship process is unconscionable.”

It seems obvious that the Obama administration is trying to register more Democrats, said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform, which advocates stronger enforcement of immigration laws.

“Naturalization as a U.S. citizen is not supposed to be used as a political tool,” Mehlman told The Daily Signal in a phone interview. “Obviously, the administration wouldn’t be doing this if they didn’t think it could make a positive difference for their party in some states.” (For more from the author of “What Top Senators Want to Know About Obama’s Push to OK New Citizens to Vote” please click HERE)

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Democrats: Vote or We’ll Kick Your A**

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Photo Credit: Getty ImagesDemocrats are telling voters that they had better head to the polls — or else.

The New York State Democratic Committee is bullying people into voting next week with intimidating letters warning that it can easily find out which slackers fail to cast a ballot next Tuesday.

“Who you vote for is your secret. But whether or not you vote is public record,” the letter says.

“We will be reviewing voting records . . . to determine whether you joined your neighbors who voted in 2014.”

It ends with a line better suited to a mob movie than a major political party: “If you do not vote this year, we will be interested to hear why not.”

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Senate Passes Bill to Suspend Debt Ceiling

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Photo Credit: cliff1066â„¢The Senate on Thursday approved legislation that prevents the U.S. from hitting its debt limit until May 19, sending the legislation to President Obama.

In a 64-34 vote, the Senate gave its blessing to a House bill that suspends the debt ceiling until May 19, when the Treasury Department will need to use “extraordinary measures” to keep paying the nation’s bills.

Republican Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Roy Blunt (Mo.), Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Dean Heller (Nev.), John Hoeven (N.D.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Richard Shelby (Ala.), John Thune (S.D.) and Roger Wicker (Miss.) voted with the Democratic caucus to pass the legislation. Two Democrats — Sens. John Kerry (Mass.) and Patty Murray (Wash.) — missed the vote.

The bill allows Treasury to borrow what ever sum is necessary to keep the U.S. from going over the debt ceiling until May 19. Unless Congress acts again, Treasury on that date will add what ever it has spent to the nation’s current $16.4 trillion ceiling.

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State of Alaska Ignores Voter Fraud…Again: Illegal Alien Cop Skates on 41 Felonies

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Alaska No IDRecords from the Alaska Division of Elections reveal that a former Anchorage Police Officer convicted on federal charges for false claims of citizenship and passport fraud has voted repeatedly in federal, state, and local elections in Alaska dating back to 1991. Raphael Mora-Lopez – a.k.a. Raphael A. Espinoza – voted most recently in 2010, casting ballots in the local municipal elections as well as both primary and general state-wide elections. In all he voted no less than 41 times over a 20-year period.

Though the State pressed charges relating to $27,000 fraudulently obtained by Mora-Lopez from Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend payouts, he was sentenced to only 24 months in jail with all 24 months suspended. State prosecutors subsequently declined to press charges on at least 41 counts of voter misconduct in the first degree, a class C felony in the State of Alaska.

This new information raises grave concerns about elections integrity in Alaska, and about the level of seriousness among State officials with respect to voter fraud. One might view the State’s inaction as an oversight had the Associated Press not reported the fact as early as June 2011, ostensibly citing federal court records. But given that the Alaska Division of Elections has since purged Mora-Lopez from the voter rolls, it is certain that State officials were not in the dark.

The fact that State prosecutors would turn a blind eye to such an egregious case not only casts doubt upon the integrity of the Department of Law, but makes a mockery of Alaska’s election laws.

In 2010, US Senate candidate Joe Miller raised similar concerns only to have them summarily dismissed by State officials. The fact that the charges against Raphael Mora-Lopez in April 2011 came on the heels of the State’s internal investigation of the 2010 general election in which the State denied having a problem with illegal felon voters may account for the State’s reticence to raise the profile of this case by pressing charges.

However, such a scenario offers little comfort for concerned citizens. For if the State would sweep 41 felonies under the rug to protect a local police officer, or perhaps just to save face, what might it cover up to protect a United States Senator?

 

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