National Review Online.

“He announced a “nonpartisan commission to improve the voting experience in America.” However, he is not putting election officials who have actual experience in election administration in charge of the commission. Instead, he is putting two campaign attorneys in charge, one from his campaign (former White House counsel Bob Bauer) and another from Governor Romney’s campaign (Ben Ginsburg). That is quite revealing of what Obama considers to be “nonpartisan.”

While there may have been a small number of Americans who had to wait for long periods to vote in 2012, the vast majority did not. A recent study of the 2012 election reported that the average wait time nationally was only 14 minutes. The longest times were in Florida (45 minutes), and one of the shortest was in California (6 minutes). In 2008, when we had the highest turnout in a presidential election since 1960, we had similarly short wait times. The Pew Center released a study in December reporting that “blacks voted at a higher rate this year than other minority groups and for the first time in history may also have voted at a higher rate than whites,” so it is pretty clear that there were no real problems in the 2012 election that kept the President’s base out of the polls. Methinks all the talk of long lines in the last month is designed to justify a federal takeover of elections that would do a lot of other mischief.