Wisconsin municipalities sent military and overseas ballots extremely late, some as many as 26 days late with DOJ intervening less than 2 weeks prior to the Presidential Primary.  That leaves virtually no time to return the ballots to be counted.

Are states and counties cross the country really ready for the 2012 General Election?  There continues to be stumbles in the primary season — with Alabama and now Wisconsin failing to meet the MOVE Act deadlines in recent weeks.  To the story:

At least 65 of the state’s 1,851 municipalities failed to send
absentee ballots by at least 45 days before the election to voters who
had requested them, as required by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens
Absentee Voting Act. Some were sent as much as 26 days late.

The
Justice Department filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in
Madison, Wis., on Friday, simultaneously with the agreement. Affected
voters who have not yet received their ballots will be offered the
opportunity to receive their ballots electronically.

more details at AirForceTimes.

A lawsuit alleging that the trustees election system for a California Community College violated the California mini-voting rights act has settled.  Defendants will pay $55,000, presumably in attorney’s fees, in the settlement.

 Daily Interake.

  Link.

“In Guam, where the plaintiff is white and the defendants are not, a local legislator’s bitterness toward enforcing civil rights is now on full display. Senator Guthertz’s public lament sounds like something from Mississippi officials, circa 1962.

Secretary of State Ken Blackwell says the recent objections from the Voting Section have the desired side effect of helping to reelect President Obama. 

 Hartford Courant.

I will be in Miami Thursday night, March 29, for a book signing sponsored by the Republican National Lawyers Association.  Details here.

The next night, at 6 p.m., March 30, I will be speaking in Stuart, Florida, at an event sponsored by the Martin County Republican Party.  I will be signing copies of Injustice.

When: Friday, 6 pm, March 30, 2012
Who: Martin County REC
Where: 1111 SE Federal Hwy
Suite 134
Stuart
Map it.

 Story here.

 Sean Turner at Project 21.

Ken Blackwell, the African-American Secretary of State of Ohio from 1999-2007, opines that voter ID laws protect the integrity of the ballot box and states that Attorney General Holder is abusing Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act to block voter ID laws already blessed by the Supreme Court.  link to the Daily Caller.