“To see whether voter fraud exists.”  Boston Herald.  The witness list should be interesting.

More here.

Texas Voter ID “likely to become law.”  Less so if the law is submitted to the Justice Department for approval.  Indeed, any glee about the law’s passage in Texas should be tempered.  If the law is submitted to the Justice Department, instead of going straight to federal court for approval, the act is quite likely NOT to become law, and Texans will have lost a legislative session to pass voter ID.

Two Scottsdale Arizona residents have been indicted for voting twice in the 2008 Presidential election.  They voted both in Arizona and Nevada.  This is also a violation of federal law.  Will the Justice Department act and indict them?  Peter Canova and Gina Thi Canova were charged with 15 counts of voter fraud.  Another example of “nonexistent voter fraud.”  Perhaps Tova Wang could be reached for comment.  More at ABC15.

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That’s the conclusion of a report today.  More at PJ Tatler.  Will the Department of Justice Voting Section finally start enforcing Section 8 of Motor Voter properly? 

Dallas Morning News.

More at National Review here.   “In the end, as this decision by the Georgia Supreme Court and all of the decisions by other courts show, the Bush administration’s legal judgment was correct. To paraphrase former Reagan Labor Department secretary Ray Donovan, which office do I go to get my reputation back (along with an apology)?”

The Department of Justice is heading to Phoenix to monitor elections there.

Linked is the full opinion written by Justice Hugh Thompson.  A defeat for Common Cause and the NAACP.  And so ends years of nasty contentious fighting.  All the arguments and posturing became as simple as this –  from the opinion:

“Nor do we find the photo ID requirement to be an impermissible qualification on voting. The 2006 Act does not deprive any Georgia voter from casting a ballot in any election. A registered voter who does not possess a photo ID and who desires to vote in person can obtain a free photo ID at one or more locations in the county of his or her residence.”

Here is Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes complaining about the law upheld today and other government issued photo identification laws and their “intersection with race” and affect on “people who traditionally face barriers to the polls.”  She concludes, “that’s what I’d call the denial of the right to vote.”