Last year, we covered some of the problems in the counting of military absentee ballots in Virginia, as did others. This problem has not gone away. It has just moved. The day before election day 2008, the McCain campaign filed a complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia to force Virginia to count military absentee ballots that came in after election day. McCain lost Virginia by more | Read More »
[UPDATE, Moe Lane] Permit me to introduce the two new GOP council members for Alexandria: Frank Fannon Alicia Hughes —– Jim Geraghty over at National Review has the basic facts. Democrats lost two seats on the Alexandria, Virginia city council: Boy, how long has it been since I’ve been able to report good news on an election night for Republicans? With results from 26 out | Read More »
[UPDATE: Representative Gerry Connolly's phone number is (202) 225-1492; Governor Tim Kaine's is (804) 786-2211. Feel free to politely ask them whether they really do support voter suppression efforts in the Commonwealth of Virginia. - Moe Lane] The Democrats are always accusing Republicans of passing out fliers saying that the date of an election has moved. Of course, there is never any evidence linking these | Read More »
My friend and colleague, Patrick Ottenhoff, had an interesting analysis of Virginia back in June that could be on the money: Major federal contractors set up shop in Northern Virginia and, in turn, subcontracted work to technology firms that hired accountants and lawyers. The young professionals who work at those firms in Tysons Corner, Reston and Ashburn are part of Obama’s core constituency. But the | Read More »
Today, the Fairfax Times reports that Rokey Suleman still is not counting those military ballots we have been telling you about: “It kills me to not count those votes,” Suleman said. “As much as I hate the law, I can’t ignore it.” Rokey must know something we don’t know. And something that the State Board of Elections doesn’t know, because they have told him the | Read More »
Meet Fairfax Co. Registrar Rokey Suleman. He has decided to reject absentee ballots from American soldiers stationed overseas. In fact, some of the ballots he’s not counting are those from military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Suleman is using a technicality to throw out hundreds of our brave soldier’s votes. Except that Marc Ambinder reports that the Suleman is getting the technicalities wrong. | Read More »
Warner Todd Huston just wrote about ACORN embezzling issues. Thankfully, we just gave a criminal organization another chunk of change in the Housing Bill. Allegedly, it was to push more people into subprime loans, which they have been doing for the last decade or so. Of course, that was a bad idea. Another big project of theirs is voter registration. Like so many voter-reg groups, | Read More »
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