Kevin Mooney has this extensive and detailed piece at Capital Research Center.

“The Soros connection is worth greater scrutiny because the Advancement Project appears set to supersede Project Vote as the leading apologist for voter fraud in the 2012 elections. With Soros’s backing the Advancement Project is in a position to far outspend groups advocating voter integrity measures. . . .

The Soros connection is worth greater scrutiny because the Advancement Project appears set to supersede Project Vote as the leading apologist for voter fraud in the 2012 elections. With Soros’s backing the Advancement Project is in a position to far outspend groups advocating voter integrity measures.”

Brandon Darby at Breitbart.com.  “The Chronicle’s Joe Holley initiated this round of accusations against True the Vote and their founder, Catherine Engelbrecht. Media Matters for America repeated it shortly thereafter. . . . Holley has used the Houston Chronicle as his medium to make the same claim on two other occasions. However, the problem with these publications’ joint claim is that it is patently false.”

Hundreds of candidates are going to be knocked off the ballots.  Supreme Court opinion is here.  In short, the candidates filed their statement of economic interest at a time other than when they filed their cadidate forms.  SC Supreme Court says they cannot be on the ballot.

 National Review.  “Indeed, a brand-new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that 64 percent of Americans believe voter fraud is a serious problem, with whites registering 63 percent agreement and African-Americans 64 percent.  . . .  [Artur] Davis made it clear in his speech to True the Vote that much of the opposition to voter-ID and ballot-integrity laws is a sad attempt to inject racism into the discussion and intimidate supporters of anti-fraud laws. ‘This is not a billy club, this is not a fire hose,” he told his audience while holding up his driver’s license.'”

The three-judge panel in the Texas voter ID case … said that it “was disinclined” to grant requests to postpone the scheduled July 9 trial in the case and said that it was “committed, if at all possible, to decide th[e] case in time for the law, if pre-cleared, to be effective for the November 2012 elections.”

At PJ Media.

Pitt County North Carolina objection.  Reads like a failure to carry intent burden. 

With 60,000 members, the Reserves Officers Association (ROA) is the largest military reserve officers association in the country and the Service Members Law Center was established by ROA as the legal arm related to military voting and employment issues.  In a recent law review article focusing on the military voting failures in Wisconsin, the Service Members Law Center has come to the same conclusion that the Military Voter Protection Project, commentators and newspapers have recognized for some time:  DOJ is not adequately investigating or enforcing the MOVE Act and the efforts of private citizens and even students are necessary to fill the enforcement gap.

In recognition that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is simply not up to the job, the Service Members Law Center specifically called on citizens to play the role of neighborhood watchmen to investigate and call local election officials to determine whether overseas military ballots have been timely mailed by applicable federal deadlines under the MOVE Act. 

However, there is much more to this story.  It is intriguing why the powerhouse ROA would recommend that “citizen investigators” directly contact the Director of the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) when that Department of Defense agency has no actual enforcement authority.  Note the total absence of referral requests to the Department of Justice.   

So we asked the question why?  Our sources (close to DOJ and FVAP) indicate that the two federal agencies may not be playing well with each other.  While we are aware of simmering tensions between the two agencies over the last few years, their apparent feud has grown to the point where DOJ has started to exclude FVAP entirely from the enforcement process.  For example, in the most recent military voting case in Wisconsin, our sources stated that DOJ did not consult at all with FVAP about the case or the remedies settlement. 

This apparent conflict between FVAP and DOJ does not bode well for military voters in 2012.  Rather than working together to ensure that military voters are able to vote, these two federal agencies appear to be locked in an internal power struggle over the enforcement of these cases.  If the ROA is now involved in that conflict, it very well may escalate in the coming months.  Stay tuned.

A proposed new map for the Mississippi Senate includes more majority-black districts and fewer split precincts statewide.

…The map includes 15 majority-black Senate districts. When districts were drawn by federal judges a decade ago, there were 12 majority-black districts. With some population changes, there were 13 majority-black districts by the time this round of redistricting started.

Mississippi has a 37 percent black population and a 35 percent black voting-age population. Under the proposed map, 29 percent of the Senate districts would be majority-black.

Sen. Derrick Simmons, a black Democrat from Greenville, said he believes the Delta gets a fair shake.

link here.