“THE votes of a million immigrants from the Commonwealth could decide the outcome of the next general election – even though they do not hold British passports.   They could even sway the result of the promised referendum on Britain’s EU membership, campaign group MigrationWatch UK warned last night, as it called for a change in the rules to remove voting rights from non-­citizens.

Commonwealth migrants from 54 states including ­Australia, Canada, India, Pakistan and Nigeria can join the electoral roll on arrival in the UK as long as they have an address here. MigrationWatch said the 2011 Census for England and Wales indicated there were an estimated 960,000 Commonwealth citizens without British passports living here who would be old enough to vote in the 2015 election and even more by the EU referendum planned for 2017. Yet in most cases their own countries do not give UK citizens voting rights. Only a few Caribbean Commonwealth nations, including Jamaica and Barbados, let non-­citizen British residents take part in their polls.”

Daily Express.

Yes, just as Americans of all races vote, Americans of all races also have children in school and occasionally have to enter those schools.  Students and employees enter those schools every day.  Often Americans vote in schools.  An interesting fact from this story is that “officials already are searching for a vendor to produce uniform IDs for
all students and district employees over the next year and a half.”  Baltimore County has made the reasonable decision that photo IDs are absolutely necessary for employees and even the students to enter the school because of the identity of the person is important.

People of the area have heard the phrase said about elections in Lake County. Vote early and vote often. But the system doesn’t allow that. It kicked out a numbered ballot that was cast in-person during early voting during the May 2013 special election in Munster.

Denise M. Witczak voted twice. She voted once on the Saturday before Election Day and once again on Election Day. The Lake County Election Board gave an official reprimand to the Munster woman for voting twice. They did not find any evidence she acted fraudulently. If they had they would have had to send this case to the Lake County Prosecutor to bring charges against the woman for attempted voter fraud.

Witczak told the she had forgotten that she had gone in and voted on the Saturday before Election Day.

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PJ Media has the bios.

 PJ Tatler

National Review link:

In reading the Division’s complaint, I was reminded of the opening con in the 1973 movie The Sting, because the complaint is filled with the same type of misdirection intended to distract the audience. For example, it outlines the different percentages of black, Hispanic, and white populations in Texas. But it first uses total population, which includes lots of people who aren’t eligible to vote. It then lists voting-age population percentages, which is also a largely useless figure because of the significant number of Hispanics who are not citizens and African Americans who are convicted felons, and, therefore, not eligible to vote. It finally gives the percentages by voting-age members of the franchise, after having confused this issue with information not relevant to the number of individuals affected by a voter-ID law. (This is compounded by its use of surname-analysis to identify Hispanics, a notoriously inaccurate analysis tool.)

The complaint lists the poverty levels, income data, and car-ownership rates of blacks and Hispanics in comparison with whites. It makes a big deal out of the claim that Hispanics and blacks experience poverty at higher rates than whites, but this is completely irrelevant to the voting discrimination claim in the complaint. Being poor is not a protected class under the Voting Rights Act, and the total number of poor whites in the state is actually larger than the total number of poor Hispanics and blacks. Justice is trying to claim that if a voting law somehow affects poor people more than others (and it has no evidence that is true), because of racially disparate poverty rates, it is voting discrimination and therefore violates Section 2. Holder is trying to bootstrap an unprotected class of voters onto a class of voters protected under the law.

More at link.

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner spoke yesterday and criticized those opposed to federal receivership of elections under the preclearance provisions as “the usual suspects.”  He vowed to “fix” the Voting Rights Act, presumably with a new Section 4 that pulls states like Texas, South Carolina, Arizona and Virginia back under federal control.

Here is the story.

Here is the video.