In South Florida, the Allen West campaign gets a partial victory with the St. Lucie County recount that will begin soon to resolve potential tabulation errors during early voting.  However, the drama continues as the Supervisor of Elections in St. Lucie County is now hospitalized and state representatives are present.  The TC Palm reports:

About 100 people milled around Supervisor of Elections Gertrude
Walker’s office Saturday morning while workers set up batteries of
machines to recount eight days of early voting ballots that could effect
the tight District 18 congressional race between Patrick Murphy and Allen West. 

As of 9:55 a.m., the recount had not begun.

Five Sheriff’s patrol cars were parked at the entrance to the building on Okeechobee Road, where security was tight.

Saturday morning, Supervisor of Elections Gertrude Walker was nowhere
to be seen. Friday night it was reported she had been taken to a
hospital.

As reported by PBS NewsHour.  Not sure what to make of the reported disparate amount of expenditures by the two campaigns on this emerging media.  Obviously, more could have been done by the Romney campaign. With so much of the public moving from mainstream media and toward new media sources and digital readership of online news, $4.7 million seems like a paltry amount of investment when compared to the hundreds of millions spent by each campaign.

One of the biggest deterrents to voter fraud is to actually prosecute the crime and take the crime seriously.  That is what happened recently in West Virginia as a federal judge lowers the boom on a defendant for lying to investigators looking into absentee fraud.

A federal judge sentenced a former West Virginia count official to nearly two years in prison on Thursday partly as a warning that election fraud must stop in the state.

…”I hope that this sent a message, a very simple message
that you can’t steal elections in the southern district of West Virginia, and
if you try you’ll go to jail,” Goodwin said.

Several in the courtroom gasped when Johnston announced the
prison term, but some others nodded their heads when he spoke of a need to
deter the fraud that has poisoned elections in that region for decades.

Human Events cites to some statistics on how the new photo ID law worked in Tennessee:

The share of voters who did not have their provisional ballot counted
because they lacked photo ID comes to roughly .02 percent of all votes
cast.

One additional fact that got my attention was the fact that of the 674 out of 2.45 million voters, 178 returned with the necessary ID.

The answer appears to be no.  This article at ProPublica.org looks at the new voter ID laws in New Hampshire, Tennessee, and Virginia and whether there was any impact on turnout and the administration of the election.  The statistics show there were little to no impact on either. In Pennsylvania, while the voter ID law was not in full effect, statistics may be gleaned because of the requests for voter ID.

Some examples:  Out of 2.74 million voters in Tennessee, only 674 failed to bring in photo ID.
In Virginia, there were only 543 voter ID provisional ballots statewide out of 3.6 million voters.  In New Hampshire, less than 1% and probably much lower filled out voter affidavits in lieu of a photo ID.

Tony Lee at Breitbart covers the Voting Rights Act lawsuit in Guam which I have brought on behalf of Major Dave Davis, along with the Center for Individual Rights.  The oral arguments are now available online in audio form.  When I figure out how to post them here, I will.

Long lines? Yes, but not the first time for the Republic. Do improvements need to be made to reduce the lines?  Yes.  However, individuals with no experience in the actual running of elections want to nationalize our nation’s elections. 

While the federalization of all elections may be easy political rhetoric, local election officials do not believe that putting the federal government in control of our elections process is a prudent course of action.  The representative of the National Association of Election Officials explained why he believes it is pure folly:

Having the federal governmenthere.