The Foundry on South Carolina Voter ID objection.

“South Carolina made the grievous error of submitting the state’s new voter ID law to the Justice Department for review, rather than going straight to federal court where it would get an impartial hearing. The history of this Justice Department over the past three years, from the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case to the refusal to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, has been one in which raw politics and ideology are driving law enforcement decisions.

Holder’s flawed outlook on voter ID laws, as he outlined it recently in a speech at the LBJ Library in Texas, matches the racial paranoia of the Democratic National Committee and the NAACP, each of which claims erroneously that voter ID laws are an attempt to suppress minority votes comparable to Jim Crow. This is a historically preposterous idea. But there was no way that South Carolina was going to get a fair, objective, and nonpartisan review of its voter ID law from this Justice Department, particularly given the parallel views of the radicals hired into career civil service positions within the Civil Rights Division.”

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday attacked the recall process currently underway to unseat him, calling it “unusual” for duplicates and obviously fake names to be allowed on petitions. 

“Unusual” is an understatement. I could think of some adjectives that are not so diplomatic.

Full story @ Politico here.

Here: This is only the second time in Kentucky’s history in which the Democrats have held one house of the legislature and the Republicans the other at the time of redistricting — the first being 10 years ago when the GOP was fairly new at running a chamber, in this case the Senate.

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U.S. District Court judge has rejected a challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — filled when the Department of Justice barred the city of Kinston, N.C. from holding nonpartisan elections — reasoning that lack of access to party affiliation would discriminate against minority voters who otherwise wouldn’t know how to find Democratic candidates on a ballot.

The challenge was initiated after the Justice Department rejected a 2008 referendum vote in which the city of Kinston voted to stop listing candidates’ party affiliations on ballots.

Daily Caller with the full story at the link

Here.  The political parties could not reach agreement.  Republicans fight for at least one seat and Democrats won’t be satisfied unless they have the advantage in all five seats.

A Judge rules in a redistricting case involving Alaska state house districts. 

This may be an interesting one to watch.

I will be on WBT-AM (1100) in Charlotte during the 11 a.m. hour Tuesday with Wayne Powers to discuss Injustice and possibily Eric Holder’s objection to South Carolina voter ID.

 Latest at Rule of Law

One more example of ignoring statutory required list maintenance procedures despite past instances of voter fraud and prior knowledge of the inflated voter rolls. 

And where has DOJ been?  Oh yeah, they don’t enforce that federal voting law.  They are more worried about objecting to voter ID laws for the first time in 20 years.  

It’s been more than a year since Alexander County officials learned they had more registered voters than voting-age residents, but local officials appear to have taken no steps to remedy the problem.  Francis Lee, the top election official in the state’s southernmost county, said she has received no money to conduct a purge of her voting rolls, which show more than 7,800 registered voters in a county with a population of 7,100 residents over the age of 18.

“We’re having financial problems all around,” said Lee, who was appointed county clerk in November 2009. Although Lee contends the situation has not led to any voting irregularities, the county has experienced voter fraud issues in the past. The fact that nothing is being done is troubling to some residents.

full story @ the link