My latest at the Washington Times. “President Obama’s State of the Union address last month provided the latest national crisis to be solved by Washington, D.C.: waiting in line to vote. The president shared the emotional saga of Desiline Victor, a Florida centenarian who waited six hours to vote. He announced a presidential commission to address the matter. Unfortunately, the president didn’t tell the whole story about long lines and why he has suddenly become concerned. Simply, this is a federal solution in search of a problem. Long lines to vote were very rare last November. They were certainly not sufficiently widespread to merit intervention in the nation’s capital. . . . There are local solutions to these rare problems. No utopian federal proposal can fix a problem with local election administration. Election officials and their constituents are best suited to fix any problems. This didn’t stop the coordinated campaign by leftist groups calling for expansive federal mandates to fix a problem that is not widespread. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s Justice Department has joined the coordinated effort. Mr. Holder’s controversy-plagued Civil Rights Division has been tasked with providing government-funded cover to the effort by the activist groups. . . . If the long-lines commission is really looking for widespread disenfranchisement, it should focus attention on the sorry state of military voting. The Obama Department of Defense has failed to follow federal law mandating that military recruitment centers also serve as voter registration offices — just like a welfare office. Might it be because registering those dependent on food stamps helps Democrats win elections?”
Pay attention to the federal mandates that the presidential commission might consider. No doubt they will be intrusions into state legislative choices, such as guaranteed vote by mail, or federal mandates for early voting.
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