Elijah Cummings confronts anti-vote-fraud group
A top Democratic lawmaker is going after True the Vote, a prominent conservative anti-vote-fraud group, over concerns that its efforts may adversely impact minority voters.
Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, ranking member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has sent two letters to the Houston-based organization seeking “specific documents about the manner in which True the Vote and its affiliated organizations have been challenging the registration of thousands of voters across the country based on insufficient, inaccurate and faulty evidence.”
Continue ReadingConcerned about voter fraud and “election integrity,” True the Vote has declared that it wants to deploy up to 1 million volunteers across the country to monitor what happens on Election Day.
Cummings complained that True the Vote has “not produced a single document” yet in response to his original Oct. 4 letter, but has asked for a face-to-face meeting with the Maryland Democrat. Cummings declined any such meeting until True the Vote turns over the information he is seeking, which includes estimates of the number of poll monitors it will field, where these monitors will be sent, and copies of the voter rolls it is using to determine voter eligibility.
Citing reports of True the Vote’s activities in North Carolina, Wisconsin and Texas, Cummings also said there “is mounting evidence that True the Vote’s aggressive poll monitoring tactics are being coordinated closely with the Republican Party.”
“On October 12, 2012, the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights issued a report concluding that True the Vote’s poll monitoring efforts in North Carolina appear to be aimed at African American and other minority communities that historically have voted for Democratic candidates,” Cummings wrote. “According to the author, the information in the report demonstrates that your organization has a ‘highly partisan and political agenda to deny African Americans and Latinos, specifically, the right to vote.’”
Cummings said any efforts to intentionally and improperly challenge the rights of minority voters to go to the polling booth “could amount to a criminal conspiracy to deny legitimate voters their Constitutional rights.”
In its response to Cummings’s Oct. 4 letter, True the Vote complained that Cummings was acting off of inaccurate news reports and “secondhand knowledge or poor staff-researched understanding of our organization’s activities.”
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Read all 52 comments in our forumWhat a bunch of Crap. Everyone and I mean everyone has some sort of ID that helps them get thru the day, week and year.
Have you ever cashed a check, rented a car, get on a plane. Saying this will effect minorities is a joke. I think the reaon they are making an issue out if this is because the real fruad on elections comes from the left.
Liberal idealogy is a failure and destroys the human soul.
Polls show 71% of voters want ID laws to protect their vote. Once again Cummings is on the wrong side of the voters.
Did he tell them that "true" is not a verb?
And not everyone has a photo ID. You need a birth certificate or passport to get a drivers license. It seems very plausible that there are people who have neither of those for a number of obvious reasons. I registered voters in Philadelphia in 2008 and most people gave their social security number from memory, rather than using a DL number.
misdirection from a desperate party. There is only one reason why anyone would oppose what True the Vote and other groups like them are doing.....to allow Dem voter fraud. Period. Another black leader playing the race card.
In fact I went to my local post office to pick up my mail(out of town for seven days - stopped my mail).
Guess what happend - I have left my wallet at home - so I showed my insurance - car registration and they told me I need photo ID to pick up my mail- should I say more.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - NOVEMBER IS COMING.
this man is the master racist.
I wonder why this [artisan d-bag isn't upset with Dem state Sen. From Rhode Island, Harold Metts, who passed a voter ID law. Why not call attention to this guy? Could it be because he is a Dem and is black? The faux rage from these libs and their soft bigotry (or apparent self loathing) is disgusting at best.
Isn't this the same individual defending Eric Holder on Fast and Furious lack of giving information to the Committe? The Black Panther group is going to monitor voting sites, as will ACORN . Yet a conservative group is consider hostile towards voters because they want to do the same. This is double standard carried by the Democrat party!
You Go,Elijah !! We gots to make sho all the ACORN peeps and the illegal aliens,felons,multi-state and non-residents aren't "disenfranchized" from their Obama granted right to fraudent voting.Who do those people think they are,anyway?, trying to stop what it took you,the CBC,and the Democrats YEARS to put in place ??
Hey Thunderbob.... ACORN does not exist anymore.... look for another boogie man to whine about!
You Go,Elijah !! We gots to make sho all the ACORN peeps and the illegal aliens,felons,multi-state and non-residents aren't "disenfranchized" from their Obama granted right to fraudent voting.Who do those people think they are,anyway?, trying to stop what it took you,the CBC,and the Democrats YEARS to put in place ??
Spoken like a true racist err I mean Republican
Indygreen.... seems like the racists are out and about these days. Look for more in the next 3 weeks!
Didi, et.al.
Can I hear from you and other Liberal/Progressive/Democrats a couple pof choruses of the new Democrat theme song "Slip Slidin Away"
Make sure you sing it really loud like you do when you overscreach posters on this site.
Sure you all know the lyrics but just incase you don't here they are
"Slip Slidin Away, Slip Slidin Away, The closer you get to your destination the more you Slip Slidin Away
Unless he's bringing accusations before a committe hearing or a court, Cummings is in no position to "demand" infomation from private citizens. Seems it would be a good journalistic effort to demand a record of Cummings' communications with the usual suspects of leftist alphabet suit groups in this matter who are trying to use his poffice to intimidate private citizens wanting an honest election process.
Unless someone is physically holding another person back from the booth, or trying to intimadate them on the way to the booth (say like....the black panthers), the "voter supression" claims by the dems are simply a waste ot time meant to distract people from issues.
Not racist---REALIST. Just "spoken' by someone who is not blind,.deaf,illiterate,and STUPID.You go,Elijha,Gits dem votes.
So Politico has come to this.... a racist right wing whiners site with no redeeming social values.
Hey Politico... clean up the garbage here!
Throughout my father's life, he always voted Republican. Since his death, he seems to steadily vote Democratic.
71% Favor Requiring Voter ID at the Polls
"A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 66% of Likely U.S. Voters believe voter fraud is a serious problem in America today, with 33% who say it is a Very Serious one. Twenty-eight percent (28%) disagree, but that includes just 12% who say it’s Not At All Serious."
Americans Overwhelmingly Want Voter ID at the Polls
"Throughout my father's life, he always voted Republican. Since his death, he seems to steadily vote Democratic."
Now THAT'S funny, Azdon...
Not racist---REALIST. Just "spoken' by someone who is not blind,.deaf,illiterate,and STUPID.You go,Elijha,Gits dem votes.
Kilo maybe we should just string-em up from the nearest tree like the good ole days huh?
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