Iowa voter fraud charges have been filed.  A Nevada lawyer is representing the Iowa defendant and has bizarre comments:

“A Melbourne man has been charged with election misconduct in a case his attorney says proves the Iowa voting system works without the need for the criminal investigations launched by Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz last year.”

The lawyer is saying that the charges against his client proves that the power to investigate voter fraud in Iowa should not be expanded?  Why would a criminal defense attorney wade into that policy debate? 

Wall Street Journal reports:  Many people head to the polls in political elections not because they
expect to cast the decisive ballot but because they like being able to
say they voted. They also don’t want to have to lie, if asked whether
they voted.
That’s among the findings in research under way.…

Kentucky military personnel serving overseas will be able to get ballots
electronically under legislation approved late Tuesday in the Kentucky
General Assembly. How they send them back is still to be determined. Working until the last minute of the 2013 session, legislators went back to the original Senate version of the military voting bill that allowed for electronic sending of
ballots to overseas military, but snail mail return of the ballot.

Link to story.

Fox News reports: The Arkansas Senate voted Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Mike
Beebe’s veto of legislation that would require voters to show photo
identification before casting a ballot.  A few highlighted quotes:

…King dismissed Beebe’s concerns after Wednesday’s vote. “It’s unfortunate that his attitude is just a continuation of the
attitude by Democrats in Arkansas that voter fraud isn’t happening and
they won’t do anything about it,” King, R-Green Forest, told reporters
after the vote.

We shall see if the mainstream media coverage of the override is equal to media coverage of the veto. 

True the Vote holds the annual summit on April 12 – 13.  Some more information here:

http://www.truethevotesummit.com/

Link to story.

State Attorney General Kathleen Kane doesn’t want to do her duty and defend the Pennsylvania voter ID law because she doesn’t believe in it politically.

Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele said Attorney General
Kathleen Kane should present a “vigorous defense” of the controversial
Voter ID law in court this summer.

Aichele referred to earlier news  reports that said Kane is weighing
defending the law because of constitutional objections to the law.

“It is a core responsibility of the Office of Attorney General to
defend the constitutionality of statutes passed by the General Assembly
and signed into law by the governor,” Aichele said during a budget
hearing Thursday.

The bipartisan Carter-Baker Commission on Federal
Election Reform recommended back in 2005, when it called photo
identification of voters one of the “five pillars” of fair elections.

Link to story.

Progressives will need to do much better, too, at making clear our commitment to election integrity. …[P]rogressives look Pollyannaish if we belittle concerns about
election integrity. After all, politicians have been trying to stuff the
ballot box since senators wore togas. It was progressive reformers who
fought for decades to improve the honesty and integrity of elections.

A link to the story.  Expect a retraction within the week.

Republicans trying to discredit Arizona’s current legislative-district
map told a federal court Monday that the new political lines were drawn
deliberately to benefit Democrats and dilute the power of GOP voters.  Link here.