Listen here.   PTSD.  Tears.   New Black Panthers.  John Culberson.  OPR concludes, according to NPR, that neither “Bush nor Obama lawyers did anything wrong.” 

PJ Tatler here.

This would seem to conflict with Section 203.

Not guilty,

Here.

That’s the conclusion of a report today.  More at PJ Tatler.  Will the Department of Justice Voting Section finally start enforcing Section 8 of Motor Voter properly? 

Atlanta Journal Constitution.  And so ends a multi-year saga. 

“As did virtually every other court that considered this issue, we find the photo ID requirement as implemented in the 2006 Act to be a minimal, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory restriction which is warranted by the important regulatory interests of preventing voter fraud,” Justice Hugh Thompson writes.

Claims a New Jersey voter cast a ballot after moving to Maryland.  Voter claims they were at firefighting school.

This article in Town Talk repeats the common error that only the Department of Justice can approve redistricting plans under Section 5. 

“Lawmakers will be in hurry-up mode. Whatever they propose will have to survive the scrutiny of the U.S. Department of Justice, as required by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and be done in time to accommodate the primary and general elections later this year.”

If lawmakers want to increase the chances that the Louisiana will be approved, they should submit the plan directly to United States District Court for the reasons outlined in this article.