Still At It
by digby
Following up on dday’s post below, check out what a reader just forwarded to me:
Back with a Bang: Election Law Issues in 2008
Worried about more ACORN voter fraud in 2008? Concerned about the likelihood of non-citizen voting? Want to get the scoop on those Byzantine campaign finance laws? Then, this is the forum for you.
Join the St. Louis Federalist Society on August 7, 2008 for an all-star panel on contemporary election law issues. Featuring Randy Evans, Asheesh Agarwal, and Hans van Spakovsky, this panel is moderated by Carol Wilson, Chair of the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners.
Please come to Cardwell’s in Clayton, located at 8100 Maryland Ave. in Clayton from 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Dinner will be served promptly at 6:00 p.m. and the panel discussion will last from 6:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. As always, this event is open to everyone–not just Federalist Society members and regulars. Our panel discussion is a must-see for anyone with an interest in free and fair elections.
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Randy Evans served as the outside counsel to the Speakers of the 104th through the 109th Congresses of the United States – Speakers Newt Gingrich and Dennis Hastert. He chairs the companies of Newt Gingrich and former House Republican Conference Chairman J. C. Watts. He is a member of the five-person Georgia State Election Board and is the General Counsel of the Georgia Republican Party. He represents a host of well-known public officials including Senators, Members, Governors, and state elected officials. Evans is a partner at McKenna, Long & Aldridge where he chairs the Financial Institutions practice. He has been recognized in various publications as one of the “Best Lawyers In America” and one of Georgia’s “most influential people.” Randy has authored two books and writes a weekly newspaper column that appears in newspapers around Georgia.
Asheesh Agarwal served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice from 2006 – July, 2008, where he works on a range of civil rights and election law issues issues. Prior to that, Asheesh served as a Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division, and as Assistant Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning. Outside of Washington, Asheesh has served as a Special Assistant to the Illinois Attorney General, and clerked for the Hon. Eugene Siler of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Asheesh received his law degree from the University of Chicago and his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University.
Hans von Spakovsky is currently a visiting scholar at the Heritage Foundation. Prior to his work at Heritage, Mr. von Spakovsky was the 2006 and 2007 Commissioner at the Federal Election Commission, which is responsible for enforcing federal campaign finance laws for all congressional and presidential elections. Mr. von Spakovsky served as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 2002 to 2005, where he provided expertise on voting and election issues, including enforcement of the Voting Rights Act and the Help America Vote Act of 2002. Hans von Spakovsky is a prolific and well-received author, having published articles in the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, the National Review, and Human Events.
I think it’s just great that the Department of Justice has trained all these people to learn how to suppress the vote. Makes you proud to be an American.
With an expected huge turnout consisting of many first time voters and many people of color, these evil people are working overtime to get the mechanisms in place to cause chaos at the voting booth, intimidate many of these voters into not voting and cast enough doubt on the legality of the election so an Obama win will be tainted as illegitimate. The fact that they are in the battleground state of Missouri is no accident.
They never quit.
The event is open to anyone so if someone would like to attend this meeting and report back I’m sure it would be interesting …
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