The Pentagon says things will be fine come November 6. I certainly hope so.
Secretary Panetta said he will explain the communication problems directly to the senators. It’s my opinion that he owes the American public an explanation as well. link.
When the Pentagon speaks, they usually have an attentive audience.
I will be on Real News on GBTV tonight in the 6pm hour to talk DOJ. GBTV will be coming from space for the first time tonight.
Front Page here. After all, soldiers can’t fight back.”
“The Obama administration has every reason to believe it can get away scot-free with disenfranchising America’s fighting men and women.
There is a disconnect here. Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota are mobilizing and raising funds against the Minnesota voter ID amendment. I guess Planned Parenthood from the entire region has successfully ensured that everyone is getting their free or government subsidized contraception or health care. Now they can now move on to the really important issues involving women’s health – photo ID.
According to this Planned Parenthood office in Iowa, you need a photo ID for payment of services.
According to this article, Florida is chomping at the bit to prosecute while Maryland seemingly has little interest in an investigation or prosecution.
Elections officials in Florida say they are asking prosecutors there to
investigate allegations that former Maryland congressional candidate Wendy Rosen
was registered and voted in both states.
PJ Rule of Law
In an essay for SCOTUSblog’s Online Voting Rights Act Symposium, the Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro argues persuasively that [T]he VRA’s success has undermined its continuing viability; courts and legislatures struggle mightily and often fruitlessly to satisfy both Section 5’s race-based mandate and the Fifteenth Amendment’s equal treatment guarantee. These difficulties – constitutional, statutory, and practical – disadvantage candidates and voters, and undermine the VRA’s legacy of vindicating the voting rights of all citizens. In sum, the Voting Rights Act has served its purpose but is now outmoded and unworkable. Section 5 in particular causes tremendous federalism and equal protection problems, all while enforcing arbitrary standards that conflict with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and with Section 2. As Justice Thomas wrote in NAMUDNO, an acknowledgment of Section 5’s unconstitutionality “represents a fulfillment of the Fifteenth Amendment’s promise of full enfranchisement and honors the success achieved by the VRA.” The Court has two excellent opportunities to address these conflicts in the upcoming term, Nix v. Holder and Shelby County v. Holder.
Section 5 was a valuable tool in the fight against systemic disenfranchisement, but it now facilitates the very discrimination it was designed to prevent…
Link. The result when a President tries to politicize an already dysfunctional election commission. Now, there is nobody on the Commission or in the Commission.
“The Maryland Democratic Party has discovered that Ms. Rosen has been registered to vote in both Florida and Maryland since at least 2006; that she in fact voted in the 2006 general election both in Florida and Maryland; and that she voted in the presidential preference primaries held in both Florida and Maryland in 2008,” wrote Yvette Lewis, the state party chair. “This information is based on an examination of the voter files from both states.” Once again, the key to finding voter fraud is actually looking for it. More here.