The (Clarion Ledger) Buzz in Mississippi has a little fun reporting on the impact of the NVRA consent decree requiring list maintenance of the voter registration rolls: Under a consent decree filed Wednesday in U.S. The A.P. this morning …the deceased voters of Walthall County could not Notably, the ruling does not explicitly address the voting rights of
District Court, dead people who used to live in Mississippi’s Walthall
County will no longer be allowed to vote there.
first reported the deal, in which the county agreed to scrub its voter
rolls of people who shouldn’t be voting, including, but not limited to
disenfranchised felons, cadavers used for medical research, people who
live in Alaska, Civil War veterans and mummies.
be reached for comment, and I’m having a hard time finding other
opponents of the decree.
the undead — those who once died, and were then reanimated, like a
zombie or (SPOILER ALERT)¹ Buffy the Vampire Slayer. .
But because the process for disqualifying a dead voter involves
cross-checking with the Social Security Administration and the
Department of Health, there may be a way for disenfranchised corpses to
retain their voting rights by reactivating their social security
numbers.
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NC Governor: “Protect Election Integrity”
In 2016, photo ID will be required to vote in North Carolina, just as
it is today when citizens cash a check, apply for government benefits
or even when buying cold remedies such as Sudafed. The need for
photo ID has been questioned by those who say voter fraud isn’t a
problem in North Carolina. However, assuming fraud isn’t a threat when
multimillion dollar campaigns are trying to win in a state where
millions of votes are cast is like believing oversight isn’t needed
against Wall Street insider trading. More at USA Today.
Bill Clinton: Voting should be as easy as buying an “assault weapon”
Interesting that Democrats want to highly regulate, require delays and ban assault weapons. In many Democratic ruled cities, it is almost impossible to purchase or carry a weapon.
via Hot Air …former President Bill Clinton waggled his finger once again and zinged
gun-rights activists, saying that voting should not be harder to do than
buying an “assault weapon.” Since those purchases require a picture ID
and usually a five-day waiting period, most gun-rights and voter-ID
supporters would probably agree
NY Times Plan B: Congress should federalize all election practices under ‘Elections Clause’
The Left bemoans the lack of federal oversight of elections. Plan B is that all elections should be run the NY Times way and they want Congress to dictate. Link to Editorial.
“Secretaries of State face long odds in making the leap to Senate”
It’s not a natural springboard to the Senate, but the position of
secretary of state may appear that way leading up to the 2014 midterms.
By this time next year, as many as four Senate nominees may list that
job at the top of their political résumés.
If Senate Democrats successfully recruit West Virginia’s
Natalie Tennant, each party would have two Senate candidates running in a
potentially competitive race who have served as secretary of state — a
position held by fewer than a dozen senators in the past century.
Sid Salter: Feds will sue over Voter ID but not over weed
Clarion Ledger:
Holder’s logic is apparently that while states should have lots of leeway on how they deal with enforcement of federal laws against smoking and selling weed, states should not have that same leeway when it comes to efforts to fight perceived voter fraud.
And, in Holder’s world, what the U.S. Supreme Court has to say about the enforcement of voting rights can also be ignored if the Obama administration doesn’t agree with it. But since the Obama administration apparently thinks laws decriminalizing marijuana are a peachy keen idea, they will wink and nudge at existing federal anti-drug laws that clearly make marijuana sale and consumption illegal.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Holder clearly thinks laws should be enforced by region, too.
President Obama had to show his ID to vote in his home state of Illinois in early voting in 2012 and he was filmed doing so by every news network on the planet. Holder’s Justice Department signed off on voter ID laws in Virginia and Indiana, and the Supreme Court approved Indiana’s laws, which mirror those in Mississippi.
But the Obama administration strictly opposes voter ID laws in the South.
Left wing Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg “disillusioned” over voter ID laws and myths
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was interviewed by the New York Times and is “disillusioned” by voter ID and the myth that North Carolina and Texas were waiting to pass a photo ID law until after the Shelby decision:
Asked if she was disappointed by the almost immediate tightening of
voting laws in Texas and North Carolina after the decision, she chose a
different word: “Disillusioned.”
According to National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), the strict Texas photo ID law had been enacted in 2011 while the North Carolina ID law had been slowly making its way through the North Carolina legislature. In late April, the North Carolina state house passed a photo ID law and the Senate began its consideration. The truth is that the enactment of a North Carolina photo ID law was never really in doubt.
So it appears Justice Ginsburg is disillusioned not just by voter ID but by the New York Times inability to fact-check and other media distortion of the facts.
Larry Elder: “Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weighs in on Voter ID, not on Syria”
A tweet from Larry Elder: Has Hillary Clinton, you know, the former Sec. of State weighed in on Syria,? We KNOW how she feels about voter ID. But Syria, nada.
The “Voter ID Plaintiff” Search Party: Day 2
The ELC search party continues looking for that perfect plaintiff to bring down the entire photo ID law in one case. Where is that plaintiff? Today, is it possible we find that unprepared and unsuspecting voter who may be inconvenienced or slightly burdened? Lets go back to Texas because that’s where we really want to bring down the photo ID law.
What about Hector Garza as interviewed in MySanAntonio?
Outside the single polling place open for early voting, Hector Garza,
52, said he was prepared and saw no problem with the change. “No big deal,” Garza said. “I don’t really see a difference other than taking more time.”
No.Big.Deal. But it did take him more time?!?. While he could unknowingly be the cause of eight hour long lines, Hector was prepared and “saw no problem” with voter ID. Ugh. The Search Continues.
Voter ID suit should be tossed after plaintiff dies, Wisconsin officials argue
From a dead voter getting Voter ID to a dead Voter ID plaintiff: “Wisconsin officials say a federal challenge to the state’s voter ID law should be tossed because the only individual plaintiff died 10 months ago.”