Iowa’s top election official says warrants have been issued for three more people suspected of illegally voting in Iowa’s 2010 election.

Iowa wisely looks at ways to confirm the identity of the ever-increasing mail ballot voter.

The growing popularity of absentee voting in Iowa has prompted Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz to look into requiring signature verification for those who vote by mail.  Schultz on Monday said the idea springs from the general election earlier this month in which 46 percent of Iowa’s voters cast their ballots early or absentee, a record for the state.

link to the Republic.

Only one outcome will satisfy the anti-ID crowd, including Witold Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.  “Until it’s declared unconstitutional we’re not going to give in.”

This time from New Hampshire and the usual legal suspects.  I pointed out the problem with the Granite State Free Ride months ago.  This time the collusion is not going to go as smoothly as past collusion.  Stay tuned.

I will be with Sean Hannity on Fox News Thursday at 9 p.m. to talk about the Justice Department.  Details about the one hour special “District of Corruption” are here.

Victor Davis Hanson at PJ Media:

“Yet the new emphasis on tribe is not necessarily a liberal vision. It ignores all human individuality and assumes that friendships, marriages, and alliances will not dare trump racial and ethic solidarity. Ours is now instead a Galadriel’s mirror of the Balkans, of India’s castes, of Rwanda, but no longer of a multiracial melting-pot America, where our allegiances were to be political, economic, and cultural and not necessarily synonymous with how we looked. Obama’s identity politics would create a Frankenstein of patched-together victims, and yet he will rue that it is a different story to use such a creature for constructive purposes. Such monsters are quite valuable when running for office, but can turn on their masters when it is time to govern. . . .

Beneath all the pseudo-healing rhetoric, this is the divisive tool by which Barack Obama ran twice — the hyphenated African-, Latino-, gay-American re-election committees for Obama, the son who might have looked like Trayvon Martin, the people of color who had “the president’s back,” the nation of cowards, the country where we punish our ethnic enemies and fight against the police who all stereotype, in which Joseph Lowery tells us what particular race belongs in hell and Rev. Wright identifies whose chickens must come home to roost and the Rev. Jesse Jackson names the real segregationists who long for the Confederacy. Only in the hyper-racialist America can we take quite distinct Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and Chinese third-generation citizens and create from them the artificial rubric “Asian” in their shared antithesis to “white,” or take disparate Cubans and Mexicans and likewise reinvent them as identical Latinos, or take Jamaicans, Ethiopians, and American blacks and call them all “African-Americans” on the similar logic of not being something equally artificial like white — which I guess covers Americans who used to be Greeks, Irish, Armenians, Jews, Poles, and Danes.”

“The retrial of Democratic Board of Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough continued Monday with prosecution witnesses, and an appearance by Councilman Kevin McGrath, D-District 1.”  Full story.

So what is the state of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC):

Last year, the Republican-controlled House passed Harper’s bill to
eliminate the EAC, but the Senate took no action. Harper, chairman of
the House Administration Subcommittee on Elections, plans to look for
other ways to push the effort in the next Congress.

…the EAC has operated without commissioners for nearly a year and has been run by an acting executive director since May.“The agency is paralyzed,’’ said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Has anything really changed since the EAC imploded?  Republicans still believe the Democrats politicized the agency and wonder why they should bring the EAC out of the coma it has been in for over a year.  Ironically, all the talk about nationalizing elections and having the federal government run state and local elections is not going to help the EAC (the face of the federal government in elections) get back on its feet with state and local election officials.

…The EAC’s four commission slots — two Democrats and two Republicans —
are vacant. President Barack Obama nominated three commissioners last
year, but one resigned last December and the other nominees haven’t made
it through the initial stages of confirmation by the Senate. Another
commissioner resigned in December.  Without enough commissioners, the EAC can’t adopt new policies, hold formal hearings or issue advisory opinions.“When
it got to be a political football even the White House backed off,”
Lewis said. “Nobody did anything … (and) that ultimately became a
hindrance to the agency.’’

Link to story.

I’ve been largely out of pocket the last week due to arguments and travel in Davis v. Guam in the United States District Court in Guam.  The federal courthouse in Guam might be the most beautiful location for any court, overlooking the tropical waters of the Pacific.  The court also captured the oral arguments on audio and posted them here.  At issue is standing under the Voting Rights Act and other civil rights statutes.  Hopefully I will be back posting at full speed shortly.

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