Link at Hill, which seems to be covering routine monitoring for one of the first times.  A curious line from the story: “DOJ is in the process of appealing the High Court’s decision.”

To whom would DOJ appeal the Supreme Court decision?

Colorado is poised to deliver an object lesson in the chaos Democrats create when they have a free hand to “reform” election law….. More here at Timesleader.com.

If early voting is any indication, two Colorado state senators are in for a rough day tomorrow. Voters in Colorado have been busy over the past few months with a recall election after the state passed sweeping new gun control laws which included a ban on magazines holding more than 15 rounds of ammunition. Voters have their sights set on two officials in particular, Colorado Senate President John Morse and Sen. Angela Giron, who will learn whether they’ll keep their current positions in public office after recall election polls close Tuesday.

It is the wild west of voting in Colorado.  After the narrow passage of a highly partisan election bill designed to help Democrats and weaken the overall integrity of the system, this Washington Times article points out some of the election irregularities and missteps in the recall elections.  After the partisan voting war waged by Democrats on Colorado, there is no trust in the system.

As voting proceeds in the recall elections of State Senators John Morse and Angela Giron, irregularities in the voting process in Pueblo are coming to light. While litigation before the voting began clarified new rules of procedure, some rules are simply not being followed. Some of these irregularities could cause challenges later.

WRAL reports: A new cable television spot by Senate Leader Phil Berger is spurring renewed speculation about whether he’ll run for U.S. Senate.  Berger has toyed for months with a possible run in the 2014 election, but had been putting off a decision….Berger’s new television ad highlights the issue of requiring voters to show ID at the polls. “Shouldn’t you show a photo ID to vote? Liberals like Obama and Kay Hagan say no,” intones an announcer during the 30-second spot. “Now, thanks to Phil Berger, voters must show a valid photo ID to vote.”

In a series of posts extracting information from the Washington Post article “27 Other Things the North Carolina Voting Law Changes” and other Republican reforms overturning decades of Democrats setting the rules in the Tar Heel state. All the left wing groups liked the fact that ballot order was rigged towards Democrats.  No protests or sit-in’s, no name-calling or Jim Crow exasperation, and certainly no complaining that this disadvantaged Republicans, which studies show it did. Silence, hypocritical silence.

Ballot order is no longer a rigged game. Countless
studies show the candidate who’s listed first in a given race gets some
small advantage from voters who just check a box instead of making an
informed decision (And by countless, we really mean too many to link to
here; just Google “Ballot Order Study” and start reading). Previous
North Carolina law mandated that the party with the highest number of
registered voters statewide got their candidates mentioned first; there
are 2,766,467 registered Democrats and 1,989,597 registered Republicans
in the state, meaning Democratic names always come first. Section 31.1
of the new law puts the name of the candidate who shares a party with
the governor on top. That means Republicans will show up at the top of
the ballot in 2014, but that Democrats will the next time they elect a
governor.

Link.

The Left believes the concern over voter fraud is simply paranoia.  However, as this local Massachusetts ABC affiliate reports, voter fraud allegations and resulting guilty pleas is direct evidence that political operatives (and often the politicians themselves) will do their best to manipulate and defraud the process.  Denial of these vulnerabilities in our system is a green light to stolen elections.

The wife of former East Longmeadow selectman Enrico ‘Jack’ Villamaino
has pleaded guilty to charges related to a voter fraud scheme last
year.

Hampden County District Attorney Mark Mastroianni says that a
Superior Court Judge imposed a guilty finding against Courtney Llewellyn
after she pleaded guilty to a charge of interfering with election
officials, which is a misdemeanor.

Four felony charges against Llewellyn – including perjury and forgery – were “continued without a finding,” Mastrioanni adds.

Prosecutors say in 2012, Llewellyn and Jack Villamaino, who was
running for a state representative seat at the time, changed the party
affiliations for about 280 East Longmeadow voters.

About a month after those changes were made, Mastroianni says that there
was an almost “name-for-name match” for those people who had their
enrollment changed from ‘Democrat’ to ‘Unenrolled.’