The Washington Post review of the North Carolina election law just keeps delivering the goods.  North Carolina Republicans ended the wasteful practice of state taxpayer money going to political candidates and the biased formula used to give more to Democrat candidates. Of course, the adopted formula was no accident with the money being shelled out based on total registered voter totals in the state.  The Democrats maintained a large advantage in registrations despite very competitive races.  Public financing of candidates was not good enough based on principle or policy reasons.  The Democrats had to rig the registration advantage to unfairly send more tax payer money to their Democratic candidates.  The fact that Republicans have now passed a law to stop sending taxpayer money to candidates is a principled stand and one that happens to be popular.  Any complaint by the voter advocacy groups or civil rights groups over the years.  Not a peep.

Public financing is gonzo. State tax returns used to
have a $3 check-off box, which allowed voters to put money into a fund
that went to state parties. The money was doled out on the basis of how
many registered voters a party had, so Democrats were getting a much
larger share of the cash than Republicans. Section 38.1 ends that
practice, meaning state Democratic and Republican Parties are going to
have to fend for themselves. The section also ends public financing of
judicial elections, which Democrats see as the first step toward a
national campaign against judges on behalf of some conservative business
interests.

“When you look at the results of this recall election, when more people showed up, Democrats got crushed,” he added. “So why she has any credibility whatsoever just blows me away when she says stuff that’s just completely contradicted by facts on the ground.”

Politico

There goes that voter impersonation narrative (eg. rare, silly, impossible, useless).

” According to a Board of Elections poll worker and another poll watcher, groups of young Hasidic men attempted to enter the polling station at IS 71 and vote under the names of other citizens who have yet to vote.”

First class at the polls in New York City.  Breitbart has more.  I’m sure this will show up in the Voting Section observer reports.

From the Washington Post, North Carolina Republicans reformed another antiquated election law that required observers to be residents of the precinct they were observing; not allowing the political parties to use additional volunteers from different areas of the county to engage in the important practice of observing the polls on election day.  Another reform by Republicans only after decades of nonsense restrictions that Democrats enacted to keep Republicans away from certain precincts.

There are going to be a lot more poll-watchers in North Carolina next election.
Under earlier laws, Election Day poll monitors had to be residents of
the precincts they were observing. Section 11.1 of the bill allows each
party to appoint an additional 10 poll watchers who live in the same
county as the precinct they’re observing. That will help Democrats send
new monitors from Charlotte into heavily Republican rural areas of
Mecklenburg County, say, or Republicans to send monitors from other
precincts around Raleigh, but still in Wake County, to heavily
Democratic black precincts downtown.

The mess in Colorado keeps getting messier: Voter ID card sent to deceased Pueblo man.

Colorado is set to become the voter fraud capital of the United States.  The move to all mail ballots with automatic send-out will create an environment more conducive to fraud than in any American election in decades, if not longer.  Of course this is a familiar pattern: make election law changes under the guide of “making it easier to vote” while at the same time making if extraordinarily easy to commit fraud.  It need not be organized fraud.  The new law in Colorado creates incentives for discrete small frauds to occur all over the state, uncoordinated, but numerous.  It is a fraud almost impossible to detect because of the lack of conspirators or structures to execute the fraud.  The automatic mailing to ever registered voter (including voters recently converted from inactive to active voters) is a large scale attack on the integrity of elections in Colorado.  Advocates for the new law are more interested in pumping millions of untracked ballots out into the public than they are the ramifications of their law.  It demonstrates the lengths the advocates for “making voting easier” will go regardless of the risks.  It should serve as a warning to other state legislators that even unreasonable proposals can become law when this crowd pushes.

A crushing defeat for Democrats in Colorado leads to charges of voter suppression.  Actually, voter suppression is the story of politics.  One attempts to get one’s own voters to vote, while hoping that fewer of one’s opponents vote.  For example, in the 2012 election, OFA sought to discourage white middle class voters from participating in the election by exercising free speech rights with content designed to discourage participation.  That’s perfectly legal, and perfectly normal.

Perhaps when Democrats charge voter suppression after the crushing defeat in Colorado, they are referring to the same phenomena.

Keep in mind that the legislators defeated were not only adverse to the Second Amendment but also were key in passing Colorado’s universal vote by mail law.  The message from the election? Don’t interfere with the Bill of Rights and don’t support electoral systems which invite voter fraud on a massive scale.

The Washington Times reports on the rebuke of Colorado Democrats and New York Mayor Bloomberg in the recall of the Colorado Senate President and another state senator.  This is big news.

Colorado voters stunned the nation Tuesday night by ousting two
heavily funded Democratic state legislators in a recall election that
was cast as a national referendum on gun control.

Senate President
John Morse and state Sen. Angela Giron lost their seats in the state’s
first-ever Legislative recall election, despite the support of New York
City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, hundreds of ground troops from groups like
Organizing for America, and a 7-to-1 spending advantage.

Link.

The Sun-Times reports that a disabled former Antioch resident alleges that political harassment and
a bitter divorce are behind her recent arrest for alleged illegal
voting in the Nov. 6, 2012, presidential election.

This case has a number of complex issues and a million and one excuses for the illegal voting but the Prosecutor says “the facts will come out in court.”