Houston Chronicle link.  Regarding those elusive facts and how the voter ID objection letters make them more elusive (and some would say dishonest), read Lee Stranahan on the “DOJ Pufferfish” at Big Government.

Matthew Boyle at Daily Caller has details.

 Daily Caller

The Texas Attorney General in USA Today reminds us:

“The electoral system cannot inspire public confidence if no safeguards
exist to deter or detect fraud or to confirm the identity of voters.”
That was conclusion of the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, headed by former president Jimmy Carter
and former secretary of State James Baker. The commission recommended
stronger photo-identification requirements at the polls. Its logic was
straightforward and convincing: Americans must show photo identification
for all kinds of day-to-day activities, such as cashing checks or
entering government buildings. The many photo ID requirements we
encounter in our daily lives are legitimate, effective security
measures. Securing the ballot box is just as important.

While a Kansas senate subcommittee was too lazy to find time to hear the Secretary of State’s request to implement citizenship verification sooner rather than later, the Kansas House has decided to help the Senate. 

Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s proposal to
move up the date to require proof of citizenship for voter registration
is again before the Kansas Senate.

The Lawrence Journal -World reports that House members have replaced the contents of a Senate bill with
Kobach’s plan. Kobach said the move allows the Senate to vote on it.

Bottom Line:  It appears that the concept of citizenship verification prior to registration is not yet dead.

link.

Ohio’s top elections official has referred a case of potential voter fraud to the state’s attorney general for investigation.

Republican
Jon Husted said Friday that an initial review by the Fulton County
Board of Elections revealed that an individual appeared to have voted in
both northwest Ohio and South Carolina in the 2008 and 2010 general
elections.

link

A federal three-judge panel in Washington is pushing the Justice Department and Texas lawyers to work overtime to reach a quick decision on the legality of the state’s controversial voter photo ID law. The judges made it clear they want a decision in time for Texas to be
able to implement its law — provided it passes legal muster — by the
November general election. link

Minnesota voters are steps away from seeing a photo ID constitutional amendment on the ballot.  link

The U.S. Department of Justice, which is facing off against Abbott’s
office in a case to allow Texas’ voter ID law to go into effect, has
asked to depose — or question under oath — the author of the voter ID
bill, Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay; its House sponsor, Rep.
Patricia Harless, R-Spring; and other lawmakers.

…The
state’s motion called the Justice Department’s requests “an unwarranted
federal intrusion into the operations of the Texas Legislature.” 

Pre-clearance
is outlined in Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act — a provision that
Abbott is challenging in this case. Abbott has said it is unfair that
Texas and other places constrained by Section 5 are forced to endure the
pre-clearance process, while most other governments are not.

In
this week’s motion, Abbott’s office also took a swipe at Section 5 for
its “already-questionable incursions on state prerogatives.”

Link to the full story

A coalition of labor and civil rights groups appears to have lost a
lawsuit challenging new boundaries for Detroit seats in the Michigan
House.  …The lawsuit claims the new map is illegal because it dilutes the
political representation of minorities and forces some black incumbents
to run against each other in Detroit this year. The boundaries were
approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by Gov.
Rick Snyder, also a Republican.   link.