The Miami Herald reports that thousands of foreign citizens in South Florida might be illegally registered to vote and cast ballots in elections. 

The potential problem is largest in Florida’s largest county: Miami-Dade, where the elections supervisor is examining 2,000 potentially unlawful voters, WFOR-CBS 4 News reported Tuesday. Broward is examining 260 suspected foreign voters. One suspected noncitizen voter has been registered for about 40 years, CBS 4 found.   …The discovery of potentially unlawful voters is sure to fuel the partisan debate over voter fraud and voting rights. With 1.2 million registered voters in Miami-Dade, 2,000 potentially ineligible voters might not seem like a big number. However, it is more than enough to swing a close election in a state like Florida, where the 2000 presidential election was decided in favor of George W. Bush by 537 votes.

The headline is a bit overextended – “Eric Holder Staff Caught Smearing Mississippi”

FBI director Robert Mueller told Congress that he had never heard from Attorney General Eric Holder or anyone else about the incident that demonstrated the ease with which someone could impersonate another voter, even holder himself.  link.

Par for the course. 

Link here.  “In a letter obtained by FoxNews.com, the Justice Department wrote back Hosemann on Tuesday clarifying that the Facebook post ‘does not represent the views of the department regarding Mississippi.’

Further, Voting Section Chief T. Christian Herren Jr. assured Hosemann that the department had ‘taken steps to ensure that this employee will not be assigned to matters involving the state of Mississippi for the time being.'”

 Y’All Politics.

The “comments were not confined to her opinions about the handful of Southern Mississippi students. No, the bigotry extended to all Mississippians. All of Mississippi was sufficiently ‘disgusting and shameful’ to warrant replacing the state motto.”  More at PJ Rule of Law.

The amazing thing about the video below is that the DOJ has apparently defended the comments by saying they were more justified because they were made in the context of an ugly event at Southern Miss.  If they were private comments, they were private comments.  If they were acceptable to DOJ because of the context, then this issue has just kicked up to another level.  Frankly, I thought the matter would be a one-day story. But if Justice wants to defend the comments in context, then this is a whole new ball game.  For starters, if one rightfully criticizes the events at Southern Miss, then one should criticize the events at Southern Miss, not an entire state.  Here is the TV report:

Bryan Preston at PJ Tatler has more.

So does WLBT-TV.

Fox 40.

WDAM.

Y’All Politics.

The latest from the ever-wacky Tova Wang.   This one appears in the soon-to-be-shut-down  American Prospect Magazine.  Wang, you may recall if you read Injustice, is the soothsayer that announced there was no voter fraud in the 2010 November election within 48 hours of the polls closing.  Of course she was later proven spectacularly wrong.

The ominous “black cloud” that is photo ID:

“Americans who care about the right to vote are faced with an ugly reality as the 2012 elections come into view: no matter how many courts rule that voter identification laws will disenfranchise eligible citizens [ELC Note: that would be precisely zero court judgments] and no matter how many states U.S. Department of Justice analysts determine—using data supplied by the states themselves—that strict voter ID laws discriminate against people of color, voter identification laws will be in place in a number of states throughout the country in November.”

One in Five candidates in the state have been bumped from the ballot because of a South Carolina Supreme Court ruling.