A hurried response to the Florida lawsuit against the United States, leaked to a blogger.
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More: Florida Sues United States Over Voter Roll Purge
Two weeks ago, the Voting Section sent a please-submit letter to Florida because Florida had a plan to purge non-citizens from the rolls. That letter has sparked a wider war between DOJ and the State of Florida over what an and should be done about illegal voters on the rolls. The Hill has more.
Anti-Semitic New Black Panther Friend to Congress?
Is the Democratic Party really about to nominate to Congress a rabid Anti-Semite and frequent guest at events sponsored by New Black Panther Malik Zulu Shabazz? It seems so.
The New Black Panthers might be “a cartoonish fringe group of a couple of guys,” but one of their supporters is on the way to the House.
More rot on display.
Injustice Nationwide With Lars Larson Tonight
I will be on the Lars Larson show nationwide tonight to discuss ineligible voters on the Florida voter rolls and the orders by the Eric Holder DOJ to stop removing them.
Washington Post Swallows the “Widespread” Hook
Predictably the Washington Post is against cleaning Florida’s voter rolls. The problem? No “widespread” fraud, as if that were relevant.
Paper: Feds Should Cooperate With FL, Not Obstruct
What Happened to the “Voter Suppression” Phone Calls?
Ann Althouse reminds us: “Since the reports were made in a manner and at a time when it served the interests of Walker opponents, I always suspected Walker opponents of either faking the reports or generating the calls to cause the reports. I’m even more suspicious now that the subject has been dropped. If the calls were real and really made by Walker supporters, the opponents who claimed they got the calls or claimed they heard complaints about the calls would have an interest now in laying out the evidence. The silence is telling.” “It was battlespace preparation, intended to provide shouting points in the event of a close enough election to spur a recount. Since it wasn’t close, the shouting points weren’t needed and the whole thing became inoperative.”
Instapundit concludes:
A warning for the fall. Deceptive tactics such as concocting phony calls are likely to be used again.
“Democrats’ Dangerous Efforts to Rekindle Comparisons of Voter ID to Jim Crow” Continue
Democratic Congressmen on the conference’s Voter ID panel reiterated claims that Republican-led efforts to enact laws requiring American citizens to present a valid photo ID in order to vote are inherently racist and intended to keep minorities, specifically blacks and Hispanics, from exercising their right to vote. “This is about them trying to snatch our power away,” said Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn), who is a co-chair of the House progressive caucus. Ellison predicted that Voter ID would be the most important issue in the 2012 election. . . Maryland Democratic Senator Ben Cardin, who repeated the debunked smear that Voter ID laws are “the new Jim Crow laws of our time,” is the second Democrat in the last 10 days to reassert claims that that Voter ID laws – which aim to ensure that only American citizens vote in American elections – are similar to segregationist era laws that required African Americans to take complicated literacy tests and pay unreasonable “poll taxes” to vote.
Reporting from this weekend’s progressive activist conference Netroots Nation:
“California’s election reforms flop”
Good-government types promised their reforms — redistricting
and a top-two primary system — would fix things. They were wrong.
Hollywood produced “Ishtar” and, more recently,
Disney’s “John Carter.” But it has never made a bomb quite like
Tuesday’s California elections.
Expectations were high. California’s political reformers
told us that this would be the year everything changed. After a decade and a
half of reform efforts, a new system of less partisan elections was finally in
place, and fairly drawn legislative districts and a new top-two primary system
would usher in a new era of democracy. Voters would be engaged, competition
would be spurred, independents would get a boost and California would see the
kind of big policy debates necessary to find solutions to the state’s
persistent governance crisis.
Oh, well.
Link to full story
New Texas Dem Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa claims “Voter ID is unAmerican”
Right out the gate the slurs begin. Activists attending the Democratic State Party Convention tweet that Gilberto Hinojosa, the new Chair of the Texas Democratic Party, smeared a majority of Texans and Democrats (who overwhelmingly support voter identification laws) by calling voter ID laws “unAmerican.” Yes, Texas Democrats want to go back to the banana republic vote stuffing of the Tammany Hall era.