In a reversal from 2008, early voting activity in Ohio is swinging hard to the GOP.

 PJ Tatler.  “Rep. Elijah Cummings needs someone in his office that knows election law to write his next letter attacking the Tea Party.”

I will be on with Sean Hannity shortly talking about the Department of Justice, the Voting Section and the upcoming election.  Details shortly.

 PJ Tatler has more on cross state double voting in the same federal election.

Interesting piece on the military ballot situation in Colorado:

The VFW blames the Pentagon:

Joe Davis, director of public affairs at the Washington, D. C. office of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said the VFW was disappointed by findings in the DOD Inspector General report.

“To DOD, a rack of voter pamphlets in the orderly room or at the
family services office constitutes ‘dedicated space’ in a military
mindset that’s more focused on war or training for war than something
that only occurs federally every two years,” Davis said in an email to
ColoradoWatchdog.com.

Pew Center on the States blames the Congress:

David Becker, director of election initiatives at the nonpartisan Pew Center on the States, said the drop in requests detailed in the MVP report may involve an oversight regarding federal postcard applications in the MOVE Act, which amended the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act of 1986.

The federal postcard application was established to let military and
overseas civilians use a single postcard to register to vote and apply
for absentee ballots, Becker said. But that requirement was omitted from
the MOVE Act.

Last night I participated in a True the Vote Tele-Town Hall with South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.  He said they expect a decision shortly in the South Carolina Voter ID case and that he is “guardedly optimistic” the law will be approved by the federal court.

He should be.

South Carolina’s law has a fail safe voting mechanism for anyone who doesn’t have photo ID. Simply, anyone who had a hardship in getting an ID is still allowed to vote.

 Link on Fox.

Clarion-Ledger.com.  The racial identity of registered Mississippi voters is among the
requested information, but state Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann
said Mississippi doesn’t collect that information during the registration process. 

DoJ requests for the racial identity of all Mississippi voters, information that Mississippi doesn’t requests of its voters during the registration process.  Of course, DoJ has known all along that Mississippi doesn’t ask for or retain this data but they demand it anyway.  Why?  To delay and obstruct implementation of the law until after the election and set up a burden which they can point to later and say… “Mississippi didn’t meet its burden.”  Just add another front to the voter ID wars.

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