I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
During the last election, we spent a great deal of time investigating and writing on allegations of voter fraud, particularly against ACORN. And what we found, time and time again, was that despite constant cries of voter fraud by the GOP, cases of actual voter fraud were almost nonexistent. A report from a special prosecutor in Ohio investigating such allegations has confirmed that conclusion.
On October 19th, the chairman of the Republican Party in Hamilton County, Ohio, Joe Deters, who was also John McCain’s southwest Ohio campaign chairman, called a press conference to declare that there was rampant voter fraud going on in that county:
“If the secretary of state is listening and she has no evidence of voter fraud in Hamilton County, I’m telling you there is,” Deters said during a Monday press conference.
Deters said about 40 percent of those registration forms either lacked a proper address or could not be verified in the state’s database.
“During that five-day window, it was a free-for-all,” Deters said.
Deters subpoenaed the records of nearly 700 voters in that county who had registered and voted on the same day in early voting and a judge appointed a special prosecutor to investigate this “free for all” of rampant voter fraud. Of those voters, they found exactly one case of voter fraud – and he admitted to it later.
A report Tuesday by a special prosecutor appointed to the investigation found that only one voter committed fraud.
A Connecticut man in town visiting his sister cast a ballot on Oct. 4 but later told officials what he had done.
He pleaded guilty Dec. 29 to attempted false voter registration and was sentenced to one year of probation, a $1,000 fine and 250 hours of community service.
671 allegations of fraud, one actual case of it. Or .0014%.
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