A few months back I wrote about an David T. Beito and Ilya Somin op-ed that appeared in the Kansas City Star about how the battle over eminent domain has become a civil rights issue. In that piece they quoted an amicus brief filed by the NAACP in Kelo v. New London:

“[t]he burden of eminent domain has and will continue to fall disproportionately upon racial and ethnic minorities, the elderly, and economically disadvantaged.” Unfettered eminent domain authority, the NAACP concluded, is a “license for government to coerce individuals on behalf of society’s strongest interests.”

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KSDK News in St. Louis, MO is reporting:

Dead voters still registered

By Leisa Zigman, I-Team Reporter

KSDK — The push to register voters for this year’s presidential election is breaking records all over the country. A record-setting 4,205,774 registered voters are on the books in Missouri. That number includes over 340,000 first time voters. But are they all legal?

Using high tech computer software, the NewsChannel 5 worked with the National Institute of Computer Assisted Reporting to find the answers.

Nearly one million people are registered voters in St. Louis County and the City of St. Louis. NewsChannel 5 obtained the electronic lists of all registered voters and merged them with the Social Security’s Federal Death records dating from 1937 through September this year.

Each month, election officials are supposed to update their files and purge the names of deceased voters.

“In February we caught an individual using his deceased mother’s identity to vote,” said Scott Leiendecker, Republican Director of Elections for the City of St. Louis.

In the process to try to identify voter fraud, a match means the first, middle initial, last name and date of birth matched both databases.

In the City of St. Louis, the I-Team found more than 80 matches. In St. Louis County, nearly 300 matches were found. NewsChannel 5 also found 56 cases in which people could have voted from beyond the grave in the February Presidential Primary.

This is just the latest example of dead voters remaining on voter rolls despite procedures to ensure otherwise.

Cross-posted at The Minority Report and VoteFraudSquad.com

Warren Throckmorton has found evidence that a New Yorker has illegally voted in Florida:

To summarize, Ms. Appleton has been FL for 6 weeks, says she voted in FL, but plans to return “home” to NY a day or so after the election. According to this link and this one, Ms. Appleton’s residency is open to question.

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I want to bring your attention to a very valuable website: VoteFraudSquad.com. Vote Fraud Squad is the blog for the Voter Integrity Project - a project of the Sam Adams Alliance. The Voter Integrity Project features an army of bloggers from across the nation tasked with the mission to root out stories of vote fraud or vote suppression. [Note: In the interest of full disclosure, I am a member of this squad (along with some other names you will recognize). I'll be camping out in the always quirky St. Louis area making sure that evidence of fraud and suppression gets out.] As the VIP site puts it:

The Voter Integrity Project is a non-partisan project sponsored by the Sam Adams Alliance as part of its Sunshine on Elections effort. The purpose of the VIP project is for voters to come together to build information about vote fraud and vote suppression, in order to ensure a more fair, open, and democratic election process.

I suggest you keep your eyes on the blog so you are aware of just how much is going on. [Seriously, I could fill the Red Hot four or five times over with all of the stuff that we have been publishing over there. Go check it out now.]

Along with this, the group has launched a contest:

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I want to bring your attention to a very valuable website: VoteFraudSquad.com. Vote Fraud Squad is the blog for the Voter Integrity Project - a project of the Sam Adams Alliance. The Voter Integrity Project features an army of bloggers from across the nation tasked with the mission to root out stories of vote fraud or vote suppression. [Note: In the interest of full disclosure, I am a member of this squad (along with some other names you will recognize). I'll be camping out in the always quirky St. Louis area making sure that evidence of fraud and suppression gets out.] As the VIP site puts it:

The Voter Integrity Project is a non-partisan project sponsored by the Sam Adams Alliance as part of its Sunshine on Elections effort. The purpose of the VIP project is for voters to come together to build information about vote fraud and vote suppression, in order to ensure a more fair, open, and democratic election process.

I suggest you keep your eyes on the blog so you are aware of just how much is going on. [Seriously, I could fill the Red Hot four or five times over with all of the stuff that we have been publishing over there. Go check it out now.]

Along with this, the group has launched a contest:

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