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Alabama Secretary of State says new photo Voter ID law successful


Very successful:



According to Alabama’s Secretary of State, there were only three documented complaints or issues stemming from last week’s primary election with the new law that requires voters to show a government issued photo ID at the polls.



“When you have 613,000 voters and you only have two or three complaints, you know you’re doing pretty well,” Secretary of State Jim Bennett said. “It went smoothly.” 

Only three complaints. “Pretty well” is as understated as the anti-ID crowd’s doomsday predictions were overstated.  Time to move on. 


Mississippi County: “Seamless process with ID”

FORREST COUNTY, MS (WDAM) – The June 3rd primary was the first time Mississippi voters were required to present photo identification at the polls, and Forrest County’s voters had no issues, according to circuit clerk Lou Ellen Adams.

“We didn’t have problems,” said Adams. “Everything went smooth.”

Adams said the county issued fewer than 50 voter IDs before the primary. Of the voters in Forrest County, only eight showed up to vote without an ID.

Mississippi law allows voters to fill out an affidavit ballot if they do not have proper identification on Election Day. They are then given no more than seven days to present a photo ID to their circuit clerk in order for their ballot to be counted. 

False Prophets of Doom Fail Again in North Dakota: “Voter ID law causes few troubles at polls”

FARGO — North Dakota’s first election with a new voter identification law in place went smoothly, state and local election officials say, but not without a few hiccups. In Cass County, just a handful of voters weren’t allowed to vote on Tuesday because their addresses were out of date, election coordinator DeAnn Buckhouse said.  More at the Jamestown Sun.

Predictions of Doom by ID opponents in Mississippi were off by 99.9%

The Hattiesburg American reports on highly inaccurate predictions of doom that actual elections never bear out.  

The Republican released figures showing 513 Mississippians cast affidavit ballots June 3 because they lacked proper identification, with at least 177 returning later to show ID and get votes counted. Another 298 ballots were rejected because people did not return by the Tuesday deadline, and 13 were rejected for other reasons, such as voters not being registered. Three counties with 25 ballots among them had not reported by Wednesday what happened to those affidavits.  A total of 400,000 ballots were cast.

…New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, a leading opponent of voter ID laws, had estimated that 48,000 Mississippians could have trouble obtaining photo identification. Hosemann dismissed that estimate Wednesday, saying he thought that less than 2,000 ID cards issued by clerks showed most Mississippians already had ID.

But Larry Norden, deputy director of the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, said people who otherwise may have voted stayed away.

“Obama vs. Voter ID”

For years, President Obama and black civil rights leaders have been telling the nation that voter ID laws are being pushed by racist Republicans who want to disenfranchise blacks. “The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting Rights Act was passed in to law nearly five decades ago,”   Wall Street Journal.


This assertion despite the fact that photo ID reform was a recommendation of the Commission on Federal Election Reform led by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker and other leading professionals in electoral reform.  According to our President, the idea of uniform photo ID laws across the country is the now biggest threats to the enfranchise that was hatched by a Presidential Commission designed to resolve the issues arising from the 2000 Presidential Election.  Obama sides with Alfonso Sharpton and ignores the reasonable recommendations of the professionals. 
Who is the demagogue and the reactionary on voter ID?   

Cantor Wipeout May Doom Sensenbrenner Bill

Hill sources are telling me Cantor’s wipeout means Jim Sensenbrenner’s bill is dead.  The entire mood has changed in the space of an hour.  The Tea Party is King of the Hill.

My take at PJ Media:


Now, other Republicans who might have flirted with the idea of moving a bill to give Eric Holder renewed power over state elections can gaze at Cantor’s wipeout.  Who would dare, now?  Republicans who want to become Speaker in the future best not offend delegations from Texas, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina.


The Tea Party means business.  They think the country is worth fighting for.  They aren’t beyond mailing every single donor to every single GOP Congressman who would support Sensenbrenner’s bill.  The Tea Party is perfectly willing to send every single donor to every single sponsor of Sensenbrenner’s bill a do-it-yourself ask-for-your-money-back kit.  This isn’t 1995, and the folks who just beat Cantor are willing to do what it takes to win other battles.