ACRU v. Walthall County — Consent Decree
HATTIESBURG, MS (Sept. 4, 2013) — Walthall County, Mississippi officials [...]
Mississippi Counties Prepare for New Photo ID Law
MCCOMB, Miss. -- Circuit court clerks in Pike, Amite and Walthall counties say their offices are prepared for Mississippi's new voter ID law, which goes into effect in January. The exact date for when voter ID cards will be issued will be clearer when the clerks travel in mid-January to a training session with Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann in Jackson.
The Latest Evidence of Voter Fraud — and Discrimination
Obama-administration officials and their liberal camp-followers who routinely claim there [...]
ACRU Court Victory Means Dead People, Felons Will Finally be Taken Off Voter Rolls in Mississippi County
The landed a major victory this week when a U.S. [...]
Mississippi County Forced by Federal Court to Purge Bloated Voter Rolls
A former U.S. Justice Department attorney is pleased that a [...]
Walthall County Agrees to Clear Inflated Voter Roll
JACKSON (AP) -- South Mississippi's Walthall County has agreed to purge the names of ineligible voters from its voter registration roll, including those of any dead people and disenfranchised felons whose names appear. The agreement was filed Wednesday in a consent order in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg. The sued two south Mississippi counties, Walthall and Jefferson Davis, in April. The lawsuits said the counties both had more registered voters than residents who were at least 18, the minimum voting age.
ACRU Wins Historic Consent Decree for Mississippi County to Clean Up Voter Rolls
HATTIESBURG, MS -- Officials in Walthall County, Mississippi, were sued in April by the (ACRU) under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (commonly called "Motor Voter") for having more registered voters than voting-age-eligible residents. On Wednesday, the parties settled the case. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi entered a final Walthall_County_Consent_Decree.pdf that requires the defendants to clean up the county's voter rolls.
Mississippi Cases Could Have Ripple Effect
Two Mississippi counties are facing lawsuits filed by the (ACRU) that seek injunctions to compel election officials in Jefferson Davis and Walthall Counties to clean up their voter rolls. The two cases could have a nationwide ripple effect if the plaintiffs prevail.
Spakovsky: ACRU’s Mississippi Lawsuits Fill ‘Breach’ Left by Justice Department
The wants local election officials to clean up voter rolls in Mississippi. Last Friday, the group filed suit against two counties that have more registered voters than the Census says they have voting-eligible citizens. The ACRU is stepping into the breach left by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department. Under Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez (now nominated to head the U.S. Department of Labor), the division has refused to enforce Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act, also known as the Motor Voter law. Section 8 requires states to remove ineligible voters from their registration lists.
An Electoral Reform Tsunami
Jefferson Davis County in southwest Mississippi has the distinction of being named after Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis. That's good or bad, depending on whether you regard what occurred between 1861 and 1865 as the Civil War or as the War Between the States. Jefferson Davis County may soon have another distinction as the place where a serious national legal effort to push back against vote fraud was launched. On April 26, three former U.S. Justice Department attorneys filed lawsuits on behalf of the ACRU in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi seeking an order to compel election officials in Jefferson Davis County, as well as in nearby Walthall County, to clean up their voter rolls.