The Republic.

With a must-see introduction with limited “blah blah”.  Link here to CSPAN video.
Other funny moments include the “nonpartisan Brennan Center” and the “Washington Post” being cited as credible authorities.

  opinion

link here.

The Acting Director of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has issued an internal memo formally requesting the Standards Board and Board of Advisors to not conduct official business. 

It might save a few pennies.  Next, the employees at the EAC will need to wear sweaters to work as the heat is turned off.  Fairly soon, there will be more life on Mars than at the EAC.



link here at the NASS website.

There are few people further apart on the issue of new voter photo ID requirements than Laura Murphy and Hans von Spakovsky.

She’s director of the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office. He’s with the Heritage Foundation and a former Justice Department official under George W. Bush

….The two did agree on one thing — that voter registration rolls are a mess that needs to be cleaned up. They both cited a Pew Center on the States report last week that there are more than 2 million dead people registered to vote, and about 24 million registrations that are invalid or inaccurate

full story at NPR.

Not all of Wisconsin’s Hispanics are up in arms about the new state legislative districts drafted and approved by Republicans last year.

The Milwaukee group Voces de la Frontera is part of a federal lawsuit against the new maps, claiming that they would dilute Hispanic representation in the Legislature.

But another Latino group, Hispanics for Leadership, said Wednesday it would sue the state if lawmakers agree to changes that Voces de la Frontera is suing for.

Zeus Rodriguez said the Leadership group believes the GOP’s maps will help Latinos, not hurt them – because they give Hispanics a decent chance of getting two representatives elected to the Assembly from Milwaukee instead of one.

One of the GOP’s districts at issue is just under 50 percent Hispanic, while another is just over 40 percent. Rodriguez says that’s enough to influence voters to choose Hispanic lawmakers in both districts.

story link here.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach won a round Wednesday when the House tentatively agreed to move up the starting date for requiring proof of citizenship for those registering to vote. The proof-of-citizenship requirement was contained in the new voter ID law that the Legislature passed last year. However, it starts at the beginning of January

link here.

The N.C. State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) has charged one person with voter fraud in Candor in Montgomery County and charges against other voters may be coming. Erik Ray Jackson, 24, a previous candidate for Candor police chief, was charged on Friday with fraudulent voter registration and fraudulent voting in the 2011 municipal election

Link here.

According to a blog on AJC, quoting Columbia University law professor Nathaniel Persily.  Actually, the headline is a bit misleading as the Supreme Court is skeptical of the most instrusive part of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) which they have now repeatedly expressed constitutional concerns, not directed at the VRA as a whole.  The states are looking to mend, not end the Voting Right Act.