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Ayup: Liberals are always talking about no voter fraud at the ballot box.  Problem is, is often happens much further upstream (remember ACORN getting busted on this ALL over the country?) (reformatted, emphasis mine):

OHIO: Liberal activist jailed after voter fraud guilty plea

A paid liberal activist from the battleground state of Ohio was sentenced to six months in jail after she pleaded guilty to 14 counts of voter fraud on Monday. Rebecca A. Hammonds was originally charged with 35 counts of “falsely registering people to vote and forging signatures on voter registration forms,” and admitted to 14 counts, Salem News reports. Hammonds was a paid canvasser for the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a group pushing people to register to vote in Columbiana County.

“It was fraud. It was dozens of forms where people that were deceased or just forged flat out. They signed their name and it wasn’t even the voter, the wrong date of birth, wrong streets,” said Columbiana County Elections Director Adam Booth in mid-2016 when Hammonds originally plead not guilty, according to WFMJ. Booth said Hammonds was caught because his office “take the precautions and double check to make sure that all the information matches up, from their first name, middle name, last name, to all the identifiers.”

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SHOT:

House Speaker Paul Ryan warned in an interview aired Sunday that Republicans will face dire consequences if they fail to pass the Obamacare replacement plan he has introduced. Asked on CBS’ “Face the Nation” if his party would face a “bloodbath” in the 2018 midterms if the legislation fails, Ryan responded: “I do believe that if we don’t keep our word to the people who sent us here, yeah.” “If you don’t do that, you’re breaking your word,” Ryan added of campaign promises on healthcare.

Ryan also took on conservative critics of his legislation. With a “big tent” party, Ryan said, “everybody doesn’t get what they want. But we’re getting much better policy here.”

CHASER:

Yes, you will be facing a “bloodbath” and I’ll be there with the first bucket of blood.  NO, dumbass, it isn’t that YOUR bill has to pass

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Once again, the stories just apply themselves to my college anecdote of trying to teach an education major one of the simplest equations in math: Y = MX +B (describing how a line is to be drawn).  And New York is going to codify that incompetence because DIVERSITY! Reformatted, emphasis mine

…One of these is known as the Academic Skills Literacy Test (ASLT). It’s basically a reading comprehension test administered to those who would eventually be giving similar tests to students…Sounds almost like a no-brainer, doesn’t it? You might think so, but this month it looks like the Empire State will be scrapping the examination because not enough people were passing it and the failure rates were deemed to be too heavily skewed along racial lines. (Associated Press)

New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage of black and Hispanic candidates were failing it.  The state Board of Regents on Monday is expected Monday to adopt a task force’s recommendation of eliminating the literacy exam, known as the Academic Literacy Skills Test. Backers of the test say eliminating it could put weak teachers in classrooms. Critics of the examination said it is redundant and a poor predictor of who will succeed as a teacher.

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“I’m scratching my head here in confusion because I am having an “if A then B” moment here”

…believes in an originalist / literal interpretation of the NH Constitution?  In a UL Op-Ed, Woodburn (D) is making the case that we need to encourage more votes (like anyone has a problem with that??) (reformatted, emphasis mine:

Granite State Debates — Jeff Woodburn: Encouraging voter participation

New Hampshire is a beacon of democracy. No one does it better. Our traditional town meetings predate our constitution and our first-in-the-nation presidential primary has put ordinary people, not big-shot politicians, in charge for a century. Our democracy’s greatness lies in the hearts and the hands of our people, not some distant bureaucracy. We rely on citizens on the local level to administer our elections, and I learned this awesome responsibility and grassroots philosophy firsthand as a locally elected checklist supervisor at the ripe age of 18. We live up to the ideal of full participation in our democracy.

OK, that’s good so far.  However, it goes downhill from there – fast.  First off, he complete twists the idea of a what a Right is:

The constitutional right to vote is our most fundamental right, and all other rights derive from it. That’s why attempts to change residency standards are so disturbing — its true aim is to discourage, depress, and even disenfranchise eligible citizens rather than ensuring all who want to participate can vote.

Actually, it isn’t the “most fundamental right” – far from it;

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[Art.] 28. [Taxes, by Whom Levied.] No subsidy, charge, tax, impost, or duty, shall be established, fixed, laid, or levied, under any pretext whatsoever, without the consent of the people, or their representatives in the legislature, or authority derived from that body.

And it looks like those in the Legislature have decided that the State Board of Education has violated the Constitution’s mandate too often (else why would it exist?).  Reformatted, emphasis mine:

A bill intended to limit unfunded mandates in education and give school districts greater flexibility has special education advocates worried that major protections for students could be imperiled. As written, House Bill 620 would prohibit the State Board of Education from proposing any rule “that exceeds the minimum requirements of state or federal law.” The bill would affect all education rulemaking, but both the State Board and advocates said the biggest impacts would be in special education.

Hey, it’s all about The Rule of Law – or do these “advocates” don’t care about that?  After all, the Shade of Ian Underwood is ever present (with a pointed stick – heh!).  Not only that, but WHO should be making the Law?  Should it be the Executive Branch’s agencies?  Or should it be, well, Legislators?  Again, we look to the NH Constitution:

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OK, this has been hanging around in my “to do” list for a long time getting a bit moldy but it, once again, shows the proclivity of Treehugger to simply accept the mantra that Govt knows best – we should comply.  Add a touch of veganism (hey, it’s Treehugger) and you get this:

…If the U.S. government doesn’t know how to instruct its citizens in how to eat properly, then it’s reassuring to know that other countries have already figured it out. Sweden and Brazil have both published excellent (and understandable) dietary guidelines in recent years. Use those instead and see how you feel in five years, when the new guidelines are due for review. Maybe by then the U.S. guidelines will have gotten with the times.

I left this as a comment:

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