The North Carolina board of elections has been tainted by partisan activity over the last few years, questionable behavior and perceived biases. NC Governor McCrory has hit the reset button, dissolved it, and presumably started the process of completely overhauling the board. 

Link to full story.

Robert Knight at the Washington Times covers the ACRU lawsuits in Mississippi:

“On Friday, three former U.S. Justice Department attorneys filed lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi seeking an order to compel election officials in Jefferson Davis County, as well as in nearby Walthall County, to clean up their voter rolls.

National Review has the details:

“The mastermind behind the ballot-petition fraud was one Butch Morgan, then the Democratic-party chairman of St. Joseph County. With the help of three other employees of the county board of elections, Morgan faked names and signatures on ballot petitions that qualified Obama and Clinton for the May 6 Democratic primary. . . .

Clinton barely beat Obama in the Indiana primary, garnering 51 percent of the vote. The delegates were split almost evenly, with Clinton receiving 38 and Obama receiving 34. Had Obama been disqualified from the ballot and Clinton had received all 72 delegates, it would have put her within striking distance of the nomination. How would candidate Obama’s grassroots and financial support have been affected if he had been disqualified from the ballot and his campaign enveloped in a fraud scandal caused by local Democratic-party operatives?

Political momentum is a very delicate thing. It’s certainly possible that such a setback for Obama could have changed the outcome of the 2008 Democratic nomination contest. But of course, we will never know. All we do know for sure is that Indiana experienced election fraud committed by party activists that may have affected the 2008 election. But of course, according to some, there is no election fraud in the United States.”

No surprise here: “Though Democrats supported a 2010 initiative to take politics out of the process of redrawing Florida’s political lines, emails show some of the party’s biggest political players were involved in drawing maps.”

It bears repeating, there is no such thing as a “nonpartisan” redistricting commission.  Nonpartisan redistricting commissions are partisan redistricting commissions hiding behind layers of disguise.  Arizona, California, and now Florida are finding out the hard way.

Link at PJ Media:

“Why do reporters at dead-trees outlets swallow any myth about the law that the Left dangles in front of them? The answer is simple – mere mention of the Voting Rights Act is designed to frighten legislators and introduce race into any debate about election process laws. In the past, it has served to clear the decks of any opposition to what Democrats want.

But the Voting Rights Act in no way affects the Texas legislation at issue.”

Politico highlights an Associated Press analysis:

America’s blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home.  Had people voted last November at the same rates they did in 2004, when black turnout was below its current historic levels, Republican Mitt Romney would have won narrowly, according to an analysis conducted for The Associated Press.

…Overall, the findings represent a tipping point for blacks, who for much of America’s history were disenfranchised and then effectively barred from voting until passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

…The 2012 data suggest Romney was a particularly weak GOP candidate, unable to motivate white voters let alone attract significant black or Latino support. Obama’s personal appeal and the slowly improving economy helped overcome doubts and spur record levels of minority voters in a way that may not be easily replicated for Democrats soon.

Romney would have erased Obama’s nearly 5 million-vote victory margin and narrowly won the popular vote if voters had turned out as they did in 2004, according to Frey’s analysis. Then, white turnout was slightly higher and black voting lower.

The reason: revealing the identity of the donors could lead to possible intimidation and harassment of socialist supporters.  That’s the same argument that conservative organizations and lawmakers have used in recent years to oppose tightening campaign finance disclosure laws. In their case, it’s mostly to protect big donors from criticism and protest.  

More @ Politico.

A typical HuffPost piece warning of the dangers of states cooperating to see if state voter lists have duplicate voters.  Bob Brandon has it in for the good work Virginia has done to verify if Virginia voters are registered in other states.  Noting that Virginia first thought 308,000 voters were registered in another state besides Virginia, he downplays the final number.

You’ll be pleased to learn that “a little over 164,000 voters were found to be registered in other states,” according to Brandon.

Yes, just “a little over” 164,000 voters were improperly registered in Virginia.  Comforting.

“A bill by Republican state Rep. Cindy Burkett caps the number of ballots an individual could mail at 10. The proposal set off a deep and lengthy debate on voter integrity and disenfranchising, and questioned whether changing the law would run afoul of the federal Voting Rights Act.”  Link.

Expect the bailout standards to tighten after June 30, 2013.  Falls Church, out.