“BREAKING: Judge Rejects Fraud Claim In SD-27”
The latest from NY. And MORE about how to prevent another absentee ballot debacle.
Category Archives: chicanery
“Nick Baldick: 527 backing John Edwards in 2008 kept clean”
Josh Gerstein reports from the Edwards trial.
Read the Government’s Brief Opposing Cert. in the Siegelman Case
You can find it here. My earlier blog coverage is here, and I discuss the case in this recent Slate column.
“Some California legislators bring arrest records to their campaigns”
The LA Times offers this report, with the subhead: “Six candidates for state-level office in California have been arrested within the last two years. But do voters care?”
“Councilman Alarcon ‘very pleased’ perjury, fraud case was tossed”
Surprising news from Los Angeles.
UPDATE: The D.A. has already refiled charges.
“Could John Edwards have been charged with something else?”
Allen Dickerson writes at Campaigns & Elections.
“Obama’s Chicago Politics: Thuggery Not Civility”
Michael Barone: “It has been reported that the Obama campaign this year, as in 2008, has disabled or chosen not to use AVS in screening contributions made by credit card. That doesn’t sound very important. But it’s evidence of… Continue reading
More on the Voter Impersonation Fraud Case in Fort Worth
Yesterday I had a blog post, Allegation of Actual Impersonation Voter Fraud Attempt in Texas…and An Illustration of Why Such Fraud is Rare and Stupid, which linked to a Fort Worth Star Telegram story.
I wanted to get more… Continue reading
More Election Fraud Allegations in Indiana [corrected], And This Time It’s the Usual Kind
The usual kind? Election officials committing absentee ballot fraud.
Correction: The original post said this was in Austin, Texas. It is Austin, Indiana.
Rehearing and En Banc Rehearing Denied in RNC v. DNC Case
Brad Smith on John Edwards Prosecution
Here.
Why It Probably Doesn’t Matter What Bunny Mellon Thought in John Edwards Trial
Via Political Wire comes this Walter Shapiro TNR piece suggesting the prosecution will prove the Bunny Mellon did not know about the Edwards affair when she gave the money to Edwards. Shapiro asks: “If Bunny Mellon did not know about… Continue reading
John Edwards, Tom DeLay, Don Siegelman and the Criminalization of Politics
My new Slate jurisprudence column begins: “If politics makes for strange bedfellows, so too it seems do political prosecutions.”
Another snippet:
It is no wonder then that liberals and conservatives have rallied around these politicians, despite the fact that most… Continue reading
“Make prosecutors prove ‘quid pro quo’ in bribery cases”
Ted Olson and David Debold:
Columnist George F. Will recently wrote that “(u)ntil the Supreme Court clarifies what constitutes quid pro quo political corruption, Americans engage in politics at their peril because prosecutors have dangerous discretion to criminalize politics.”… Continue reading