Category: National Policy Analysis

The Brennan Center is Wrong: Voter Fraud is a Real Threat to Every Citizen’s Constitutional Rights

National Policy Analysis #642 /
The Brennan Center for Justice has been the go-to resource for many opponents of commonsense anti-voter fraud efforts such as voter ID. The essence of the Brennan Center's argument against voter ID is that that voter fraud isn't a real ...

Voter ID Opponents’ Latest Spurious Claim: Voter ID Allegedly Slows Election Tabulations

National Policy Analysis #643 /
Critics of commonsense anti-fraud measures such as voter ID continue to engage in desperate efforts to change public opinion on the issue, racing from one complaint to another. They've claimed that requiring voters to present identification is a form of ...

Media Shows Pervasive Bias When Covering Voter ID

National Policy Analysis #641 /
On July 30, 2012, Huffington Post Senior Washington Correspondent Dan Froomkin issued a clarion call to the news media, imploring them to eschew journalistic integrity and attack those who support voter integrity laws.1 Froomkin claimed that "[v]oter fraud simply isn't ...

Victims of Voter Fraud: Poor and Disadvantaged are Most Likely to Have Their Vote Stolen

All is not well in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The state has announced the shocking preliminary results of an extensive police investigation of voter registration "irregularities" – a polite word for the ugly reality of voter fraud. As the Richmond ...

Coming to a Car Near You? The Department of Transportation’s Creepy Black Box

Possibly coming soon to a new car near you – mandatory tracking and recording of your automobile usage. At one point it was part of the effort to reauthorize federal highway transportation programs. It was included in S. 1813 and ...

Voter Fraud is Real: Why the Voting Rights Act Should Be Used to Fight Election Fraud

Election fraud in America is no laughing matter. Florida election officials have discovered that the state's voter polls have 53,000 dead voters still registered to vote.1 That's a whole city of dead voters still "eligible" to vote – more than ...
The Next Exodus: Primary-Care Physicians and Medicare

The Next Exodus: Primary-Care Physicians and Medicare

In late 2009 the highly respected Mayo Clinic grabbed national headlines when it announced that one of its primary-care centers was no longer accepting Medicare. Henceforth, Medicare patients visiting its family clinic in Glendale, Arizona would have to pay cash ...

Misleading Statistics Driving Voter ID Criticism in Pennsylvania

Contrary to breathless media reports, there's no reason to believe over 750,000 Pennsylvanians will be turned away from polling places in November as a result of new voter ID protections. Upon closer inspection, such reporting is much ado about nothing ...

Do Free Speech Rights Apply to Union Members, Too? In Knox v. SEIU, Supreme Court Soon to Rule on SEIU Funding Gimmicks

Summary Labor unions are notorious for coercive, strong-arm tactics. They have a sordid history of intimidating workers to join a union and stifling members and non-members who oppose that union's agenda. The facts in Knox v. SEIU show that California's ...

Voter ID and South Carolina: The Supreme Court Speaks Yet DOJ Won’t Listen

Summary The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has formally objected to South Carolina's new voter identification law. The Department of Justice is effectively ignoring Supreme Court precedent, signaling a willingness to ignore electoral voter violations, raising grave ...

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