Print Hans von Spakovsky Read Full Bio AP Makes Bogus Charge of Voter Disenfranchisement “Legitimate Voters Blocked by Photo ID Laws” read the headline of a July 10 Associated Press article. Sounds pretty damning. It turns out, though, that the article lacked key information about two Indiana voters that might have changed the whole tenor of the story. The reporter, Mike Baker, failed to reveal that the voters in question actually have photo IDs and have used them in previous elections. 3 Aug 2012 VA Org Mailing Voter Registration Forms Based on Partisan Firm Catalist's Data Now, the state of Virginia is having problems with a non-profit group, the Voter Participation Center, that has been sending voter registration forms to Virginia residents “addressed to dead relatives, children, family members in other states, non-U.S. citizens, people with similar names, existing registered voters and residents’ cats and dogs.” And who does the non-profit say it got its data from? The same firm used in the Texas case: Catalist. 25 Jul 2012 Report: Day One of DOJ's Trial Against Texas Anti-Voter Fraud Laws Last week, Breitbart News reported on the partisan Democratic campaign organization Catalist, headed by Harold Ickes. Catalist was hired by the Department of Justice as its data analysis firm in the trial that just opened over the Texas voter ID law. As the trial commenced on Monday, the claims made by the Justice Department, based on the supposedly “objective” data analysis of Catalist and DOJ’s “experts,” changed once again. DOJ also presented a bizarre radical professor as a witness on Tuesday on the motives of Texas legislators. 11 Jul 2012 Holder Employs Obama GOTV Org to Challenge Voter ID Law The Atlantic described the firm as “a big Democratic data warehouse” that was intimately involved with President Barack Obama’s 2008 voter turnout effort. It was, according to The Atlantic, “the conductor for a data-driven symphony of more than 90 liberal groups, like the Service Employees Union – and the DNC – and the Obama campaign.” 5 Jul 2012 Holder: No Executive Privilege for Texas Pols The Department of Justice is asserting that the governor of Texas, as well as state legislators, have no executive or deliberative process privilege to shield documents -- even as Eric Holder and President Obama assert executive and deliberative process privilege to shield documents from Congress in its investigation of Fast & Furious. 29 Jun 2012 Public Radio Stations Urge Listeners to Lobby Congress, May Violate Federal Law 17 Feb 2011
AP Makes Bogus Charge of Voter Disenfranchisement “Legitimate Voters Blocked by Photo ID Laws” read the headline of a July 10 Associated Press article. Sounds pretty damning. It turns out, though, that the article lacked key information about two Indiana voters that might have changed the whole tenor of the story. The reporter, Mike Baker, failed to reveal that the voters in question actually have photo IDs and have used them in previous elections. 3 Aug 2012
VA Org Mailing Voter Registration Forms Based on Partisan Firm Catalist's Data Now, the state of Virginia is having problems with a non-profit group, the Voter Participation Center, that has been sending voter registration forms to Virginia residents “addressed to dead relatives, children, family members in other states, non-U.S. citizens, people with similar names, existing registered voters and residents’ cats and dogs.” And who does the non-profit say it got its data from? The same firm used in the Texas case: Catalist. 25 Jul 2012
Report: Day One of DOJ's Trial Against Texas Anti-Voter Fraud Laws Last week, Breitbart News reported on the partisan Democratic campaign organization Catalist, headed by Harold Ickes. Catalist was hired by the Department of Justice as its data analysis firm in the trial that just opened over the Texas voter ID law. As the trial commenced on Monday, the claims made by the Justice Department, based on the supposedly “objective” data analysis of Catalist and DOJ’s “experts,” changed once again. DOJ also presented a bizarre radical professor as a witness on Tuesday on the motives of Texas legislators. 11 Jul 2012
Holder Employs Obama GOTV Org to Challenge Voter ID Law The Atlantic described the firm as “a big Democratic data warehouse” that was intimately involved with President Barack Obama’s 2008 voter turnout effort. It was, according to The Atlantic, “the conductor for a data-driven symphony of more than 90 liberal groups, like the Service Employees Union – and the DNC – and the Obama campaign.” 5 Jul 2012
Holder: No Executive Privilege for Texas Pols The Department of Justice is asserting that the governor of Texas, as well as state legislators, have no executive or deliberative process privilege to shield documents -- even as Eric Holder and President Obama assert executive and deliberative process privilege to shield documents from Congress in its investigation of Fast & Furious. 29 Jun 2012
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