I looked everywhere in the work of Credible Academics and could not find any historic or empirical analysis of whatever happened to plaintiffs in past voter ID litigation, whether they were ever able to obtain photo ID and vote, despite claims of their lawyers that voter ID prevented them from voting.

Given that the Credible Academics have never published anything about whether ex-Plaintiffs were able to obtain voter ID, I suspect we all know what the answer is.

Stay tuned.  Answers coming soon at PJ Media, but not from Credible Academics.

Dallas Morning News.  “Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston expressed alarm” that it might happen.

“A state district judge will decide in the next week whether voters in the Beaumont school district will have an election on Nov. 5 after attorneys on Wednesday finished their arguments in a lawsuit brought by three candidates who tried to run in the eventually canceled May trustee election.

The district’s planned election date is 47 days away, and officials need at least 45 days to settle preparations.”

Link.

PJ Tatler.

Halloween horror a bit early as Wisconsin Republican Jim Sensenbrenner says the Supreme Court put a knife in the back of the civil right act.  He is apparently accusing his fellow Republicans and Wisconsin lawmakers of discriminating in voting laws.  What exact law is the Halloween Horror Sensenbrenner referring to as an example of voting discrimination? The Wisconsin Photo ID law? Or the Wisconsin redistricting law drawn to protect his seat?  The reverse engineering of the outdated formula which Sensenbrenner lazily re-adopted in the 2005-2006 reauthorization hearings is not a constitutional way to serve as a safeguard against discrimination. As Chairman of the House Judiciary, Sensenbrenner had his chance to lead and blew it. 

“Voter discrimination still exists, and our progress toward equality should not be mistaken for a victory,” he added. “There is at least one Republican, and you’ll find out in the future a lot more, that is committing to putting life in this most important civil rights act that got a stab in the back from the Supreme Court,” he said.

When everything else is unpopular, Voter ID remains popular.

Link.

Columbus Dispatch reports: A Grove City woman who voted twice in the 2010 general election has been placed on probation.
Marian Wilson, 48, of Kendall Place, pleaded guilty in March to a misdemeanor count of
illegal voting.
Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Stephen L. McIntosh placed her on probation for one year.
The judge said he would send her to jail for 180 days if she violates probation.
Investigators said she submitted two absentee ballots — one under the name Marian Wilson and
the other as Marian Toles.
Elections officials working to clean up voter-registration rolls uncovered the irregularities
last year.

The target date is the primary election to be held in June 2014.  Link to Commercial Appeal – subscription for full story.

Showing what can be done when a Democrat elected official is not beholden to the voter fraud deniers in academia and the non-profit sector.  Town Hall.