[WRAL] State elections officials said Wednesday that they're investigating hundreds of cases of voters who appear to have voted in two states and several dozen who appear to have voted after their deaths.
State lawmakers last year mandated the State Board of Elections to enter into an "Interstate Crosscheck" -- a compact of 28 states that agreed to check their voter registration records against those of other states. The program is run by a Kansas consortium, checking 101 million voter records. The largest states -- CA, FL, NY, and TX -- are not part of the consortium.
State Board of Elections Executive Director Kim Westbrook Strach delivered the report Wednesday to the legislative Elections Oversight committee.
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And so Frank Alfisi -- Amy's beloved Dad, "Poppy" to his grandchildren and "Frankie Bananas" to his friends, the man who only mere days earlier was going out to dinner, playing cards, pool, shuffleboard and bocci, driving a car, enjoying a girlfriend -- that Frank Alfisi disappeared into the cold, impersonal "care" of Obamacare.
It killed him.
Incredibly, this past Sunday Obama adviser David Plouffe went on ABC's This Week to proclaim "the law is working."
On March 27 -- last week -- the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill popularly known as the "doctor fix." Included in that bill, according to news reports, is language that "postpones hospital compliance with the controversial 'two-midnight rule' and recovery audits of medically unnecessary claims until March 2015." CMS has jumped into the breach as well, issuing not one but two delays.
But the fix -- and it would be a temporary fix along the lines of the "mend it, don't end" approach so many Democrats are being urged to adopt about Obamacare -- begs the question.
What business did the government have in getting between Frank Alfisi and his doctors in the first place? In fact, as long as Obamacare is not repealed what happened to Frank is inevitable. This is what occurs when the cold rules of a centralized impersonal Washington bureaucracy that views Americans not as individuals but statistics are substituted for the judgment of a doctor.
And recall Amy's mention of that chilling statement of her sister-in-law the ER nurse? The statement saying "similar situations have happened where she works. Patients who should be admitted for a day are discharged because they don't fit the criteria to be admitted for two or more days. She said it's not a secret and while we, the public, may be unaware of this, it's well known by doctors and nurses."
This time, the victim was Frank Alfisi. The next time? It could be your "Poppy," your Mom, your child. It could be you.
And one more thing. The detail of Frank Alfisi's previous illnesses? Why did Amy feel it necessary to list them in telling her father's story? Because, in Amy's words, "I'm sure Harry Reid's people will point these things out if it ever gets that much attention."
Think of that. An American citizen feels the need to get out the details of her father's private life in illness as she recounts his death struggle with Obamacare because she thinks it possible the Majority Leader of the United States Senate will call her a liar. As Reid has previously stood on the floor of the Senate and said that the Obamacare horror stories coming from other Americans are "untrue... tales, stories made up from whole cloth."
[Ynet] Riot police fired water cannon in the Turkish capital on Tuesday to disperse thousands of people protesting outside the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) against local election results which saw the ruling party dominate the electoral map.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party kept control of the two biggest cities, Istanbul and Ankara, and increased its share of the national vote in Sunday's elections despite a corruption scandal dogging his government, but the opposition has said it will contest some of the results.
Momentum is building behind what would be an unprecedented effort to amend the U.S. Constitution, through a little-known provision that gives states rather than Congress the power to initiate changes.
At issue is what's known as a "constitutional convention," a scenario tucked into Article V of the U.S. Constitution. At its core, Article V provides two ways for amendments to be proposed. The first -- which has been used for all 27 amendment to date -- requires two-thirds of both the House and Senate to approve a resolution, before sending it to the states for ratification. The Founding Fathers, though, devised an alternative way which says if two-thirds of state legislatures demand a meeting, Congress "shall call a convention for proposing amendments."
The idea has gained popularity among constitutional scholars in recent years -- but got a big boost last week when Michigan lawmakers endorsed it.
Michigan matters, because by some counts it was the 34th state to do so. That makes two-thirds.
In the wake of the vote, California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter pressed House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday to determine whether the states just crossed the threshold for this kind of convention. Like Michigan lawmakers, Hunter's interest in the matter stems from a desire to push a balanced-budget amendment -- something that could potentially be done at a constitutional convention.
"Based on several reports and opinions, Michigan might be the 34th state to issue such a call and therefore presents the constitutionally-required number of states to begin the process of achieving a balanced budget amendment," Hunter wrote.
"With the recent decision by Michigan lawmakers, it is important that the House -- and those of us who support a balanced budget amendment -- determine whether the necessary number of states have acted and the appropriate role of Congress should this be the case."
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Go for the Gold. Add an Amendment which allows a 60% vote of the states to nullify any act of the executive, legislative or judicial branches of the Federal government.
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They could get 3/4th of the states voting for the convention, but Feds won't recognize it anymore than the EU bureaucrats accepted the 'no' votes in countries that refused to ratify their constitution. It's not the votes that count, it's who counts the votes.
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In that case, it would be time for the states to declare the Feds illegitimate, withhold tax monies collected in-state and shutdown all Federal operations within the individual states. Arresting Federal law enforcement officials if necessary. Time to play nasty.
As a Constitutionally established Republic; no Constitution, no Republic. No Republic, no federal government. Plenty here in Texas would line up to make that happen. I'm sure there are people in other states that are ready also.
Obama and the Marxists in the Democrat organized crime syndicate may well succeed in destroying this country, but I don't think it is going to end the way they plan.
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CF has hit on the key point we face today. If they don't follow the existing one today why expect them to follow any one amended. The real power back to the states would repeal the 16th Amendment and give the states the power and responsibility to tax per capita and send their portion to Washington. Leaving the Beltway to deal with the states and left with income derived from import duties and lease holdings of federal lands.
#4 anything from the convention still requires 3/4ths ratification back in the states. Getting back to the original design, that means the dozen big city urban states are not going to steamroll what they want over the others. The opposite is more likely causing a lot of negotiation of power and influence.
#5 while our Constitution is short compared to others, it is accompanied by shelves of 'judicial rulings' often of convoluted reasoning and rationale that make theirs in total look smaller. Nothing stops the Convention from issuing (like the first ten) multiple amendments and see what gets ratified.
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"while our Constitution is short compared to others, it is accompanied by shelves of 'judicial rulings' often of convoluted reasoning and rationale that make theirs in total look smaller."
That would be the advantage of this approach. Gives us a "reset" on 200+ years of judicial erosion of the plain meaning of the document itself.
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Not many things frighten me more than the possibility of a Constitutional convention. It's like inviting a troop of itinerant baboons to touch up the Sistine Chapel.
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What Pappy #4 said. Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.
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Matt, I absolutely agree with you. Unless we could resurrect Madison, Monroe, Washington, and the other founding fathers, we would never see the genius of our current constitution. We would end up with something that looked like Obamacare, with every liberal wet dream included.
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I think some things to consider, as I understand it.
Representatives to the convention would be selected by the state legislatures and not 'popular vote' - so the Democrats would not be able to stuff the ballots with illegals, felons, dead and imaginary people. No doubt Obama and company would love to force it to a popular vote.
I believe each state gets 1 vote. So a large state like NY or CA would count only as much as a small conservative state (WY or ND).
On the other hand Obama may insist we include all 57 states...
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Yep, junk can come out,but..again, remember it still requires the amendments to go back to the states and the usual 3/4ths approval. The urban dominated big states aren't going to get that level of support for the blue agendas. Given that we're an oligarchy being pushed to the core socialist model, you really don't want to sit on your hands and do nothing because of 'fear of what might be' rather than take the opportunity to turn this ship around.
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The text for the US Constitutin already says that the US or its lawful Polity.AUthority must pay its debts, which IMO already infers a Constitutional or lawful requirement for a "balanced budget" - IMO again, this requirement is also supoorted or complemented by already pre-existing myriad Fed statute.
Its a Political + National shame that we have to come up wid yet another new law to "clarify" the issue.
[NEWSMAX - Standard Cautions Apply] President Barack Obama has lost all credibility with his disastrous Affordable Care Act and bungled foreign policy and Americans will punish him at the polls this fall, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says.
Delay was reacting to Obama's claim that the ACA had reached its April 1 goal of 7 million signups, proving his healthcare law's opponents were wrong, Obama said, because "Armageddon has not arrived."
"His Armageddon is coming in November [with] these midterm elections and then again in 2016," DeLay told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
"The American people have lost all confidence in this president, they've lost trust in him. He has no credibility. How can one lose what one never had ?
"The reason people are against Obamacare is they don't want the federal government to be involved in their healthcare, or in their lives. He just doesn't get it," DeLay said Wednesday. He 'get's it'... he simply doesn't give a damn.
The images included below shed light on the dangers U.S. Border Patrol agents are facing from rock throwers along the U.S./Mexico border. The Border Patrol has come under an unprecedented level of fire from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and their allies in both government and media for the use of deadly force in response to some rock attacks from individuals and groups illegally entering the U.S. from Mexico.
Breitbart Texas has reported extensively on the left-of-center campaign to restrict the ability of Border Patrol agents to defend themselves and on the false narratives such open-borders advocates use in their political and media attacks against the men and women of the Border Patrol.
The reality being far from the false narrative of "kids throwing pebbles," the life-threatening rock attacks against Border Patrol agents often occur in remote areas when a solitary Border Patrol agent may be up to a 90-minute drive from their nearest backup. The solitary Border Patrol agent's radio often does not work due to insufficient communications infrastructure along the U.S./Mexico border--leaving the agent alone and unable to call for help. The attacks often come from illegal immigrants trafficking drugs or human beings, or from illegal immigrants trying to divert the attention and resources of the Border Patrol in an effort to assist drug and human traffickers.
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I salute the Border Patrol agents. I'm glad they are there even though I can't understand why they stay on the job, subject to that kind of abuse, without the support of the administration. It's pretty clear that Zero is only using them to provide token resistance so he can claim he is enforcing the law when he is also using the invaders to upset demographics and voter registration in this country. Why would anybody go along with such a sham?
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...attacks against Border Patrol agents often occur in remote areas when a solitary Border Patrol agent may be up to a 90-minute drive from their nearest backup.
Seems to me, some civic minded folks could provide an assist. The bodies don't need to be found. Coyotes need to eat too. BP agent won't have to account for rounds expended. Win/Win.
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Quick! Out of the corner of your eye you see something coming at you. It could be a rock. It could be a grenade. Hard to tell.
The same concept applies to the IDF.
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Like the picture often shown of the (poor little) Palieo kid who peed his pants. They seldom show the previous pic of the same kid throwing large rocks at people.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The images included below shed light on the dangers U.S. Border Patrol agents are facing from rock throwers along the U.S./Mexico border. The Border Patrol has come under an unprecedented level of fire from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and their allies in both government and media for the use of deadly force in response to some rock attacks from individuals and groups illegally entering the U.S. from Mexico.
