Imagine an election where only voters of one race were allowed to vote, and every other race was not allowed to vote.  Do you think Eric Holder’s Justice Department would be involved?  You’d think.

But they weren’t.

I’ll have more about this shortly.  Here is the court opinion from the Federal Court in the CNMI striking down a brazenly racially discriminatory election as violating the Constitution and Voting Rights Act, and nowhere in sight was the DOJ.

It’s not hard to figure out why DOJ sat this one out.  Just ponder a bit about the plaintiff and a bit about the beneficiaries of the racially discriminatory law.

Moral of the story, if you are an ineligible felon, don’t register and vote:

“Brian Lee Bird pled guilty to first degree election misconduct. It’s a felony conviction and Bird was sentenced to five years in prison according to a news release from the Iowa Secretary of State’s office.

Bird registered to vote and cast a ballot in Knoxville during the 2012 general election, however he was not eligible to vote because he was a felon who had not completed his probation. Bird’s previous felony conviction was for domestic abuse causing injury.”

I’ll be on with Megyn Kelly tonight at 9:30.

Absentee ballot fraud case involving a Democrat official goes to court.  He previously blamed the charges on him being a Latino:

“Paterson Councilman Rigo Rodriguez and his wife, Lissette, will be back in court in July after pleading not guilty on Tuesday to charges that they committed fraud in a 2010 election that Rodriguez won by a narrow margin. The Rodriguezes were indicted in March on allegations that they submitted absentee ballots in Rodriguez’s bid for reelection as votes for people who never authorized them. They also are accused of coaching campaign workers to lie to authorities who were investigating allegations of voter fraud.”

But why would anyone do anything like this, the academics wonder?  Surely nobody would risk jail for a couple of votes that won’t swing an election, they argue.  Link to the contrary reality:

“A former Bolivar city councilwoman was sentenced Tuesday to two years of community corrections.

Brenda Woods was convicted in March for procuring illegal voters in the city’s 2009 municipal elections.

National Review link:

“In a speech on April 11 to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, President Obama claimed that his administration had “taken on more than 100 voting-rights cases since 2009, and they’ve defended the rights of everybody from African Americans to Spanish speakers to soldiers serving overseas.” The real numbers are far less impressive.

As we have separately pointed out, the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, where we both formerly worked, has taken on only 39 cases since 2009. Despite the president’s rhetoric, this is considerably below the record of the Bush administration. For all of the criticism leveled at the Bush Justice Department by Eric Holder and civil-rights organizations, the Bush Justice Department had a far more robust enforcement record on voting rights than the Obama Justice Department has.

Politifact took up this discrepancy in the president’s claims and obtained a list of 102 cases from the Justice Department. This list, however, does not hold up under scrutiny.”

“An initiative petition requiring voter identification, declared invalid by a district judge last week, has been corrected and was refiled with the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office on Wednesday…

Arkansas court says judge went too far on voter ID

The Arkansas Supreme Court has tossed out a judge’s ruling striking down the state’s voter ID law, but stopped short of ruling on the constitutionality of the measure.

Link here.