Dallas County commissioners Tuesday morning voted along party lines to spend up to $275,000 to fight the state’s voter ID law.  Instead of using the money to provide free ID services to the voters they believe need a photo ID, they vote to spend money on joining a lawsuits with multiple other plaintiffs.

So much for reduction of early voting hours being racist and harmful to voters.

Reformers hate it when this happens:  The country’s most widely adopted
reform designed to make voting easier may lower the chances that an
individual voter will go to the polls, according to a new study to be published in an upcoming issue of the American Journal of Political Science.

 Link.

Mark Levin’s new book the Liberty Amendments devotes a part of Chapter 3 to how to get big money out of U.S. Senate elections: repeal the 17th Amendment.

I’ve not seen his idea addressed by Credible Scholars, but given Levin’s book has been #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and remains a top seller, I don’t suppose it matters.

Here’s his idea: after the 17th Amendment passed and led to the direct election of Senators, campaigns for Senate became subject to the usual architecture of House races – lobbyist money, Washington influence, responsiveness to faction.  Levin notes that the Founders predicted this, and thus they wanted the Senate to be elected by the state legislatures.

When election by the state legislatures, Senators had one constituency – the states as political entities.  Thus, a Senator’s focus was not in Washington D.C., but rather back home.  The 17th Amendment changed all that.

Victory for True the Vote.  Bad news for vote fraudsters.

“Queensland voter ID plan sparks claims Indigenous electors would be shut out.”

“The groups, which include the Human Rights Law Centre, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service and Youth Affairs Network of Queensland, said the laws would be an “expensive policy response to a problem that does not exist”.


Someone must have sent over the “solution in search of a problem” talking points.

 Fox and Hounds.

“The recent news that the 500+ page budget bill (now law) AB 110 defunds ballot security in several key areas – including the mandated second stage review of provisional ballots, and updating county absentee voter lists – shines light on yet another shadowy assault on the integrity of California’s democracy.”

 Star Exponent.

“Another effective weapon against voter fraud is a clean and accurate voter registration database.  States should periodically purge their rolls of convicted felons, the deceased, those who have relocated, or simply unverifiable registrations.   A new Virginia law effective July 1st,    2013 requires the State Board of Elections to “cooperate with other states and jurisdictions to … compare voters, voter history, and voter registration lists to ensure the accuracy of the voter registration rolls, to identify voters whose addresses have changed, to prevent duplication of registration … and to determine eligibility of individuals to vote in Virginia.” 

Hot off his tour of Alabama opposing Shelby and Voter ID where he appeared with Democrat Alabama state senators (including Hank Sanders), Louis Farrakhan delivers stern warnings to the Jews.

“The parts that the Jewish people call Greater Israel or Eretz Israel; that (land) does not belong to you,” the Minister said. “Unfortunately, you will die there, but your blood and the Palestinian blood and Arab blood and the blood of others will purify that area for the real owners of the Kingdom of God,” he added. “Allah is going to use your blood to purify that area of the world for the Messiah to come back and bring back with him the people of God’s choice, for the Holy Land—Mecca in particular—will be the headquarters of the Mahdi and the Messiah,” he said.

“These lies and half-truths spread by the Zionist controlled media are purposely spread to infect the minds of the people and the peoples of the world, that we should think along the lines of the mischief makers and the blood-shedders in furtherance of their wicked objectives,” said the Minister. “Israel is (America’s) companion in wickedness, so you both are headed down into the bottomless pit of hell,” he added.”