Mac Donald added a final thought: "I am confident that de Blasio will gut welfare reform — eliminating work requirements, any remaining anti-fraud requirements, and pay for performance among service providers.
That's the legislation that sailed through Congress making it easier for investment bankers and start-ups to sell shares of stock to a gullible public without making the usual SEC disclosures, much less following the anti-fraud requirements of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
"They are looking at Erisa as a way to get out of fraud pleading requirements".
In some countries, those signing would have to give their passport or national identity card numbers to help prevent fraud — another requirement that has prompted many objections because few citizens would be willing to give that information to someone collecting signatures on a street corner, for instance.
Backed by proponents as a necessary tool to curtail what they see as rampant fraud, voter identification requirements are being pushed in states across the country this year.
Republicans insisted on measures to prevent fraud, including identification requirements for certain new voters.
Many states, prodded by demands to crack down on identity fraud, have added requirements that effectively prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining driver's licenses.
A chart on Sept. 13 with an article about absentee voting fraud reversed the requirements of Wisconsin and West Virginia for a restriction on absentee ballot submissions.
In the agreement, it admits committing wire fraud and evading requirements on federally financed projects that it hire a certain percentage of minority- or women-owned subcontractors or those certified by government agencies as disadvantaged.
Even more divisive was a law aimed at combating voter fraud, which requires voters to show a photo I.D. at the polls and lengthens residency requirements.
No evidence exists that there are significant levels of in-person voter impersonation, the kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could stop.
