Strange Voting Patterns

Investor's Business Daily editors pulled together just a few of the strange voting patterns spotted on election day in states with no voter ID requirements.

Pennsylvania — a state where a judge blocked a voter ID law for 2012 and "where 75 legal and credentialed GOP election workers were blocked or removed from the polls" — had 59 Philadelphia voting divisions report Obama 19,605 votes, Romney 0 votes.

The Obama Justice Department might not be concerned about that, but one man who studies voting patterns is dubious. University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato told the Philadelphia Inquirer that it deserves scrutiny. "Not a single vote for Romney or even an error?" he asked. "That's worth looking into."

Ohio — Romney faced a similar shutout in 9 districts in Cuyahoga County "where he did even worse than the third-party candidates."

Seem impossible? Yes, it does. And that's not just our opinion. Rich Exner, the Cleveland Plain Dealer's data analysis editor, said he doesn't find the shutout credible.

Colorado — two counties reported more votes cast than their total voter-age populations.

The Taste for Arbitrary Power

"When The New York Times revealed not long ago that President Obama was personally selecting which suspected terrorists should live and which should die, everyone – supporters and critics – treated it as a national security story, period," writes Clark Judge. "I saw it as something else."

To me the White House generated portrait of Mr. Obama personally picking the targets of drone strikes reflects his most disturbing characteristic – a taste for the arbitrary exercise of power.

Hayward: Voter ID and the Diluted Franchise

Why does a cybernetic info-society tolerate ridiculous amounts of voter fraud?, asks John Hayward at Human Events, after the Justice Department shot down South Carolina's voter ID law last month. "The Left deserves a measure of grudging admiration for convincing Information Age America to hold its elections in 1965, even as they conduct their daily affairs with 21st-century speed and accuracy ... especially since those elections are, increasingly, the only real control we have over vast swathes of our nationalized, hyper-regulated lives."