The ACLU has begun looking into elections in Crisfield MD.  The Delmarva Daily Times  reports the DOJ’s Voting Section is expected to follow and do the same: “Within days of the June 16 election, the American Civil Liberties Union detailed a number of alleged irregularities, including unlawful voter identification requirements and the failure to offer rejected voters a provisional ballot, which the group said appeared to have disproportionately affected African-American voters. The ACLU said it was acting on behalf of mayoral candidate James Lane and several African-American voters. . . .Robin Cockey, the city’s attorney, said he was unaware the Justice Department planned to launch an investigation. ‘That’s interesting and surprising,’ he said. ‘I didn’t know the ACLU thought this was still a viable issue.’  Cockey said he is still in the process of conducting his own investigation, but believes the ACLU’s allegations are unfounded.”

Anyone who has not seen this should watch it.  

And here is one of the fine national officers of the National New Black Panther Party.  Muhammad is the “National Field General” of the New Black Panther Party.     This is the man who announced before the 2008 election a nationwide deployment of New Black Panthers at election sites across America. You’ll see Mr. Muhammad giving instructions on how to don ski masks, and lie in wait for police officers in DeKalb County, Georgia.  When law enforcement officers drive by, he goes “cobra” on them with “AK’s and Shotguns.”  “Set up with walkie talkies, then they [the police] will be driving through” then they shoot them.  When their widows grieve at the murder of their police officer husbands, you’ve got to see how he feels about their loss.  “He was a good cop!”  

The Washington Post has an interesting letter from the Executive Director of Fairvote: We Need a Constitutional Amendment for Special Elections.

Of course the short answer is, yes we do.  Literally, without an Amendment, our Constitution vested power in states to set their own election rules, and most of all, their own schedules. Anyone who has been in Mississippi or South Carolina during a June or August primary is probably very much in favor of a Constitutional Amendment that would ban such madness.   But seriously, the founders gave the states the power to set their own rules.  Why?  Because they are states.  They are independent sovereigns that have reserved powers to determine how and when to send elected officials to represent them in Washington.  Imagine that gruesome collection of Senators in the federation in the equally gruesome last three Star Wars movies.  See, all those folks were sent to the Senate on the terms and proclivities on each planet.  Sure, I know, strange example.  But its “more red than the ivory tower.”  Ultimately the founders made a choice as to what the ground rules are on this issue.  And the states get to decide how to send Senators to Washington because the states were given that power, not Washington.   In this era, with distrust of Washington at an all time high, I very much doubt most Americans want even more power to write the rules taken from the states and given to Washington D.C.

I’ll be on Dennis Miller’s radio show  today (July 2) in the 1pm hour.   Correction – 10am hour EDT.

Incidently, it has become too difficult to keep posting all of the radio interviews I am doing. So unless it is a national show, I’m not going to post it.  With one last exception.

I will be on with the very very funny Michael Graham on WTKK-FM Talks in Boston on Monday in the noon hour.  He is the author of the very very very funny book “That’s No Angry Mob: That’s My Mom: Team Obama’s Assault on Tea-Party, Talk-Radio Americans”

An interview at Frontpage.

“The group Minnesota Majority says they spent the last 18 months matching felony criminal records with voting records.

Group member Dan McGrath says they found 289 convicted felons in Hennepin County and 52 in Ramsey County voted illegally during the 2008 election.”

Full story at KSTP-TV .

I’ll be on with Roger Hedgecock nationwide and on XM 158 on the 6pm EDT hour. 

San Mateo County (CA) may abandon at large elections and move to single member districts.  Examiner has more.

I’ll be on 50,000 watt blowtorch WSKY-FM talk in Gainesville FL in afternoon drive Thursday talking about my piece  in Pajamas Media.

Former Congressman Virgil Goode opines at Human Events about two Voting Rights Act cases I litigated – one he likes, and one he doesn’t:

“The Justice Department filed a claim against the town of Lake Park, Fla., to make the town of 9,000 change from electing their commissioners from an at-large seat into gerrymandered districts where ‘black persons would constitute a majority of the citizen voting age population in at least one of the districts’ with the explicit goal of promoting ‘black electoral success.’

Compare this to how they treated the New Black Panther Party intimidating white voters. During the presidential election, the Black Panthers were videotaped brandishing batons in paramilitary outfits outside the voting booths. According to an affidavit signed by poll watcher Bartle Bull, a liberal who served in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights division under Robert Kennedy, one of the Black Panthers told white voters, “you are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.” The Justice Department dismissed this complaint without giving any explanation.”

I discussed how conservatives sometimes diminish the problems minorities face in elections in my Pajamas Media piece.   Racially polarized voting is an undeniable fact.  Electoral systems sometimes present insurmountable barriers to full participation by minority voters.  Single member districts can remedy this circumstance.