True The Vote has for over a year now been involved in helping Americans of every stripe to "true" the elections in their home districts. But to those forces that are more interested in ginning up emotions for partisan reasons, True The Vote has become a target of malicious rumors, false claims, and outright lies.
King Street Patriots, a group of concerned citizens in Houston, filed a counter lawsuit today against the Texas Democratic Party and at the same time are asking a judge to rule certain portions of the Texas Election Code governing political speech as unconstitutional.
Most voters are blissfully unaware of a long-term project that has been underway since 2005, a project meant to take control of our electoral system and bend it to one ideological agenda. It’s called the Secretary of State Project and is funded by one of the most active left-wing political donors in the world, George Soros.
While it is true that the whole Electoral College plan confuses many Americans, the fact is that there are reasons that it was created by the Founders to make the final choice for which candidate will win the presidency the least of which was to protect the smaller states from being run roughshod over by their bigger neighbors. The new National Popular Vote idea would bypass that protection.
On Tuesday, December 13 a rally was held near the LBJ Library at the University of Texas, Austin to highlight the attack on election reforms launched inside by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder went to Texas to denounce the Lone Star State's voter ID laws and claimed that simple voter ID laws were somehow discriminatory. Holder ominously claimed that he would use the power of his office to "enforce civil rights protections" during the upcoming 2012 elections.
A new poll is out. The bad news for voter fraud deniers and Eric Holder: 70% disagree. Read the full story here, and view a breakdown of the results.