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=voter suppression 2102blog 5th colalec disband task force (which and why?) stand your ground<header class="entry-header" style="font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://thefifthcolumn2.wordpress.com/category/voter-fraud-2/" rel="category tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0.375em; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">VOTER FRAUD</a><h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; clear: both; line-height: 1.2;">Conservative Group With Abramoff Scandal Ties Picks Up Voter ID Issue Where ALEC Left Off</h1><div class="entry-meta" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><a href="https://thefifthcolumn2.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/conservative-group-with-abramoff-scandal-ties-picks-up-voter-id-issue-where-alec-left-off/" rel="bookmark" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">April 20, 2012</a><a class="url fn n" href="https://thefifthcolumn2.wordpress.com/author/kstreet607/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">kstreet607</a></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><img class="alignright" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.thewingnuterer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/voter-suppression-for-dummies2.jpg" alt="" width="172" height="253" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: inline; float: right; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 1.5em;" />One has to wonder, why the GOP think that they will truly suppress tens of thousands of voters without a valid ID from casting their ballots on election day.  If their strategy was to make sure those tens of thousands don’t vote, activists and civil rights advocates are making an effort to help voters with the process of obtaining an ID before election day.In the meantime, some of us sit and watch this attack on democracy try to take hold, but I am certain those leading the effort to retain our democratic principles will eventually rule the day.  I intend to do my partShortly after the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) <a href="http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/after-pounding-from-progressives-alec-backs-off-of" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">announced it was dropping</a> voter identification laws from its agenda, another conservative group is stepping in to fill the void.The National Center for Public Policy Research <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/PR-VoterID_041812.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">announced</a> this week it had formed a “Voter Identification Task Force” to continue ALEC’s “excellent work” in “promoting measures to enhance integrity in voting.” Describing itself as a “conservative, free-market, non-profit think-tank,” the group was established in 1982.“The fact that ALEC is no longer going to be offering the services it did got us interested in doing something,” National Center for Public Policy Research executive director David Almasi told TPM. “We obviously can’t do everything ALEC did, but we can do something to make sure the issue doesn’t go away.”“This is something that we picked up because someone else dropped it and not because anyone has come to us and said here’s a check, do it. It’s something that we feel strongly enough about that we’re willing to do it off our regular strategic plan,” Almasi said.“We’re putting the left on notice: you take out a conservative program operating in one area, we’ll kick it up a notch somewhere else,” Amy Ridenour, chairman of the National Center for Public Policy Research, said in a statement. “You will not win. We outnumber you and we outthink you, and when you kick up a fuss you inspire us to victory.”Corporate CEOs who “cower in the face of liberal boycott threats need to understand that the left never gives up,” Ridenour said. “If these corporations do not reverse course and immediately grow enough of a backbone to say no when the left tells them what to do, conservatives may as well consider them part of the organized left. It doesn’t matter if corporate executives have free-market sentiments hidden deep inside them if they continually surrender to the left’s Trotskyite strategy of making relentless demand after demand in public.”While several conservative organizations have taken up the <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/the_voting_wars_could_get_bloody.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">issue of voter identification</a>, no national group that considered voter ID their central issue has existed since the American Center for Voting Rights <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2007/05/the_fraudulent_fraud_squad.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">disappeared</a> back in 2007. More recently, the Tea Party group True the Vote has <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/tea_party-backed_anti-voter_fraud_effort_touts_non-partisanship_at_first_national_conference.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">held a national conference</a> to address the issue and James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has produced a number of “<a href="http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/doj-official-calls-okeefe-voter-id-stunt-manufactured" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">undercover</a>” <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/okeefe_voter_fraud_stunt_confused_23-year-old_for_dead_84-year-old.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">videos</a> in an attempt to show why they believe voter ID laws are necessary.The <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/ref/ncppr.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">NCPPR</a> got a bit tangled up in the Jack Abramoff scandal a few years back. The Center for Media and Democracy <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/04/11466/right-wing-operatives-take-alecs-voter-suppression-agenda" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">points out</a> that a Senate investigation found that Ridenour <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2006/06/committee_reed_norquist_used_a.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">directed money received by the NCPPR at Abramoff’s direction</a>. The group reportedly <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/ref/ncppr.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">covered the cost</a> of several of former Rep. Tom Delay’s overseas junkets. Nobody from the group faced charges.<h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2;">Related articles</h6><ul class="zemanta-article-ul" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; padding-left: 0px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/17/alec-eliminates-task-force-on-social-issues/" target="blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">ALEC eliminates task force on social issues</a> (rawstory.com)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/alec-disbands-task-force-responsible-for-voter-id-stand-your-ground-laws/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">ALEC Disbands Task Force Responsible for Voter ID, ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws</a> (jhaines6.wordpress.com)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2012/apr/20/letter-to-the-editor-voter-id-would-help/?partner=RSS" target="blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Voter ID would help legitimize elections</a> (kitsapsun.com)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://thefifthcolumn2.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/voter-suppression-101/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Voter Suppression 101</a> (thefifthcolumn2.wordpress.com)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="http://the2012scenario.com/2012/04/alec-disbands-task-force-responsible-for-voter-id-stand-your-ground-laws/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">ALEC Disbands Task Force Responsible for Voter ID, ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws</a> (the2012scenario.com)</li><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li" style="box-sizing: inherit;">=</li></ul></div>===

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=David_Almasi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Almasi (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">David Almasi</a> - Executive Director – a 12-year public relations veteran having served as director of media programs for the wise use / right wing groups <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Defenders_of_Property_Rights&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Defenders of Property Rights (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Defenders of Property Rights</a>, <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Putting_People_First&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Putting People First (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Putting People First</a> and <a href="http://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Accuracy_in_Academia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Accuracy in Academia (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Accuracy in Academia</a>.</li>

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David Almasi serves as The National Center's Executive Director. As executive director, Almasi directs The National Center's media relations, provides staff support to <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21Index.html">Project 21</a>, and has significant management responsibilities. Prior to serving as executive director, Almasi served as director of media.

Almasi has served as director of media programs for Defenders of Property Rights, Putting People First and Accuracy in Academia. He is also an experienced writer. His commentaries have appeared in such publications as The Washington Post, The Houston Chronicle, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Orlando Sentinel, among others.

Almasi is also co-author, with David Ridenour, of the 1990 book Nicaragua's Continuing Revolution (Signal Books).

Almasi is a 1989 graduate of Northwestern University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a specialization in both American Government and Comparative Political Systems. He lives in Virginia with his wife, Nancy.