The Virginia Lieutenant Governor explains his vote with the Democrats and renewed support for voter photo ID.

“I would note that an additional bill, SB1256, will be considered by the
Senate tomorrow. SB1256 goes a step farther than SB719 and would
require photo ID at the polls. Interestingly, SB1256 already includes a
delayed effective date until July 1, 2014. I will support passage of
SB1256 if it comes before the Senate and results in a tie vote. I have
always supported photo ID because I believe it will help improve
integrity in the elections process.”

The New York Times “Waiting Times at Ballot Boxes draw scrutiny” lays out much of the agenda of the Left (pre-registration and early voting) based on the perception of long lines.  Perception because the reality doesn’t support the argument.  It takes most of the article until the author gets to the actual data to support the Democrats new assertion.  The average “long lines” had become the new justification for the zany ideas of federal automatic or universal registration of all Americans instead of actual improvements to the voting process.  If the negative polling hasn’t already, this data should deflate that argument.

The average wait nationwide was 14 minutes last year, according to Mr. Stewart’s data. Blacks and Hispanics waited an average of 20.2 minutes, compared with 12.7 minutes for whites. In the most populous areas — those with more than 500,000 voters in a county — the average wait was 18 minutes, more than double what it was in counties with fewer than 50,000 voters.

…Florida had the nation’s longest lines, at 45 minutes, followed by the District of Columbia, Maryland, South Carolina and Virginia, according to Charles Stewart III, the political science professor who conducted the analysis.

A bit of perspective, tens of millions of Americans waited twice as long for the Super Bowl blackout to end and the game to resume.  A whole 35 minutes. 

An opinion piece on pre-registering 15 year old citizens because 18 year old citizens aren’t registering in large enough numbers.  It’s not enough that California makes it easy for citizens to register.
The state needs to preregister 15-year-olds in case they don’t register
when they’re old enough to vote. Then the state needs to remind
18-year-olds to make sure they’re registered to vote and to vote,
because they’re old enough to vote — but not to remember.

 The Foundry.

Bill Bolling is proud that he cast the deciding vote with the Democrats today to kill real photo ID in Virginia today.  He teamed up with 20 Democrats in a divided Virginia Senate to pass a worthless piece of legislation that would essentially enact the status quo in Virginia where a photo ID is not needed if someone has a utility bill. 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has taken a break from defending embattled New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez from reports the New Jersey Senator committed federal felonies by traveling overseas to visit child prostitutes, to file a brief in the Shelby County case in the Supreme Court defending Section 5.  Multitasking.

PJ Media Rule of Law:

“. . .Republicans in 1993 fought like crazy to add another provision to Motor Voter: Section 8. Section 8 requires states and counties to clean up their voter rolls to ensure dead and duplicate voters aren’t voting. Eric Holder isn’t so fond of enforcing Section 8 — his DOJ spiked at least eight investigations nto states with more registered voters than people alive. After public attention, his Voting Section Chief Chris Herren fired off some letters to offending states, but nothing else beyond bluster has issued forth from Herren.

Ironically, the robust public inspection rights citizen groups enjoy under federal law were opposed by the Virginia attorney general in a lawsuit brought by Project Vote. Virginia lost that case in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and now conservative groups will start using the law to ensure our elections are run the way they are supposed to be, and that only eligible voters are voting. . . .”

The story is here at Breitbart.

“. . . True the Vote filed a federal lawsuit against Walker, the controversial election administrator, for failure to comply with federal law. The Motor Voter law of 1993 grants the right to inspect election records, and ought to allow True the Vote to perform a “comprehensive, third-party audit” of the recount, the group claims.

Vote-counting in St. Lucie County, according to both the lawsuit and local press accounts, was deeply troubled, involving considerable confusion and missed deadlines in the original tabulation and subsequent recount.

Thus far, Walker has failed to comply with True the Vote’s requests to inspect the election records. The request included, among other things, all records of Walker ensuring non-citizens and ineligible voters did not participate in the Congressional election. . . .”

I’ve learned that there is a major vote buying investigation taking place in Hamilton County, Ohio.  The scam essentially is an Obama vote/I VOTED sticker for gift cards and cash scam.  In other words, voters who bring their “I VOTED” sticker to a particular person in Cincinnati are rewarded with something of value for voting, including gift cards at a major name grocery store.  Stay tuned.