At the link watch the NASS Conference live or taped.  Earlier today, a mix of Democratic and Republican Secretaries of State made impassioned pleas to Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Perez asserting that the state chief election officials do not have control over their counties in meeting the statutory required mailing deadlines under the MOVE Act.  The NASS group asserted that lawsuits against states are not effective and fail to get to the root of the problem or violation. 

In his statements, AAG Perez refused to accept the reality that states very often do not have direct control over local election officials in complying with the MOVE Act.  Instead, Perez pointed to the language of the statute, internal policy, and how these cases were handled in the past.  With the predictable tin ears and ignoring of chief election officials across the country, DOJ and Perez are heading toward another failure of MOVE Act enforcement in 2012.  Perez won’t be able to say NASS didn’t warn him.