President Obama did a last second call for Kay Hagan in North Carolina this week.  The North Carolina Democrats turned up the volume on the Republican-voter-suppressor narrative.  The pivot made clear what opposition to election integrity is really all about: base turnout.

It looks like the VoterID = Jim Crow 2.0 narrative failed in North Carolina.  As I’ve said for years, that outcome is inevitable when the full spectrum of electorate is engaged on Voter ID. Why? Because the vast majority of voters support voter ID.  The scare-the-minorities base turnout model only works when the scare tactics can be isolated to a small paranoid demographic.  Once the broader electorate learns about the voter ID fight, the opponents of voter ID lose.

That’s what happened in North Carolina, and that’s what will happen in any other election where Democrats seek to microtarget minority voters with scare tactics.

Michael Theilen at RNLA hits the nail on the head in the New York Times.

Champions of election integrity cleaned up in Secretary of State races.  Among the winners:

Mark Martin in Arkansas, Kris Kobach in Kansas, Ruth Johnson in Michigan, Al Jaeger, Wayne Williams in Colorado and Brian Kemp in Georgia.

So much for that effort to demonize and oust election integrity advocates.  Williams was a close political friend of Scott Gessler.   As an election clerk, Williams fought with Gessler against the fraud-inviting Vote by Mail law.

Another example of the elite election reformers at odds with the voters.  Missouri voters also reject early voting.

In a sign that voters like to vote on election day, voters have rejected an amendment to allow early voting in Connecticut.  This outcome illustrates how a small groups of advocates for changing election process rules are often at odds with public sentiment.  These politically connected advocates have fought for election “reforms” designed to aid one party while the reforms masquerade as efforts to make voting easier.  Early voting is one such reform.

Cosmo magazine is sending a swag bus to college campuses in North Carolina to drum up the vote.  Cosmo’s stated agenda is, not surprisingly “abortion and contraception.”  As part of the GOTV effort, the Cosmo bus will be picking up college kids to vote and will be filled with “swag” and “snacks” according to the Washington Post.

But does the Cosmo Swag bus constitute a federal felony?  42 U.S.C. 1973i(c) prohibits giving anything of value for voting.  United States v. Garcia, 719 F.2d 99, extended this even to food.  To violate the criminal law, the offer must have been made to induce someone to vote.  What sort of evidence exists relevant to whether Cosmo is breaking federal election law?

Let’s turn to the Cosmo webpage announcing the party bus.  It states:

On Election Day, a bus decked out with snacks, swag, and models (hi, this is Cosmo) will roll up to North Carolina State University, the winner of Cosmopolitan.com’s first-ever party bus contest. The bus will shuttle students back and forth to a nearby polling location so students can vote. . . .

The contest is part of Cosmopolitan.com’s #CosmoVotes campaign, designed to get young people excited to vote in the midterm elections.

Let’s recap:  Intent to induce?  The Cosmo webpage lays out the intent of the campaign.  Thing of value?  Snacks. Swag. Models.

Of course such election laws are enforced by the US Attorney in Raleigh.  Don’t hold your breath that examination of the activity will even occur.  And Cosmo will be sure to say – “we aren’t offering anything of value to get people to go vote.”  They better get the Cosmo webmaster busy editing.

James O’Keefe shows how easy it is to vote without voter ID and when voter rolls are dirty, as they are across the country.

The Washington Post runs this reply to the vote fraud deniers on noncitizen voting by the authors of the study.

My Sunday editorial at the Washington Examiner is here:

“… 5. Myth: Mail-Voting is Fraud Free.

If you wanted to invite fraud, you’d do what Colorado has done: Go to an all vote-by-mail election.

Every single registered voter will be mailed a ballot, including those who haven’t voted in years. Colorado reclassified all inactive voters as active voters for the election. People who should have been removed from the rolls under federal law will now have a ballot mailed to an address where they no longer live. Harvesters will go door to door hoping to collect ballots. Some might be cast under coercion. Some will be cast by someone else.

And the Postal Service — the people who regularly bring you your neighbor’s mail — will now be handling the outcome.

Vote-by-mail is part of Democrats’ plan to keep Colorado blue. We’ll learn next week if it works.”

Lynching flyers used by Democrats for GOTV.

I wonder if the Justice Department will use these flyers in the case against Voter ID to prove Senate Factor Six?  Senate Factor Six allows the introduction of “racial appeals” to help establish a Section 2 violation.  Normally, most attorneys at the DOJ view racial appeals as a one way street.  If a white candidate uses a racial appeal, the Justice Department rightfully uses the appeal in the case to prove Senate Factor Six.  If a black candidate uses a racial appeal, the Justice Department usually looks the other way.

For example, if a white candidate was running against a black candidate in a majority white area, and the white candidate put his photo on a sign, it would be considered a racial appeal.  There is nothing illegal about a racial appeal.  Nor does the law stop them.  They are merely relevant facts in proving a Section 2 case.

So let’s see if DOJ lawyers make any effort to collect the evidence in North Carolina to use as part of their case against Voter ID.  I’m not holding my breath.

The Washington Times:

The spate of campaign fliers that use images of lynchings, Jim Crow laws and the recent racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, to urge blacks to vote in next week’s election somehow failed to grab the attention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The NAACP headquarters in Washington wasn’t prepared to answer questions about the fliers and mailers circulated in black communities in Georgia, Maryland and North Carolina, despite widespread news coverage of it for the past week.