“Pam Karlan, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General overseeing American elections will still be an unrepentant liar, yet praised by all her fellow travelers. United States Attorneys will still instruct assistant United States Attorneys to disregard sentencing standards and various federal laws when charging drug defendants. It will all continue. Worse, Obama could appoint an acting Attorney General under the Vacancy Reform Act that need not obtain Senate confirmation. Just imagine that circus – an unconfirmed Attorney General for a year, unaccountable to anyone except the West Wing. So keep the champagne corked. Don’t toast Holder’s pending departure. As the Who sang, ‘meet the new boss, same as the old boss.'”
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With Voter ID implementation, Texas sees marked turnout increase in similar constitutional elections
The latest data from Texas about the state’s experience with its first election held after its new photographic voter identification law became effective show that this requirement has done nothing to suppress voter turnout throughout the state. In fact, turnout in last year’s constitutional elections in Texas yielded some of the highest turnout numbers in the past decade for similar type elections. More at Heritage.
“Eric Holder to states: You all should really think about restoring voting for felons”
Hot Air hits it on the head.
I have rather a lot of difficulty, however, taking it on good faith from the guy who has made it his personal mission to flat-out persecute states who have the audacity to try and deter the many well-documented incidents of voter fraud with simple voter-ID requirements, what the Supreme Court says be damned (and don’t even get me started on the hypocrisy of his ostensible minority-boosting goals when his own department has also made tamping down on school choice another of their major action-items).
And we want to give Holder even more power under the Voting Rights Amendment?
Another Ohio Poll Worker Faces Voter Fraud Charges for Double Voting
Two votes cast and counted Ellen Duncan, 54, who had been a poll worker for about 15 years, voted absentee and then in person while working at the Urban League on Reading Road, according to Board of Elections paperwork. Both of her votes were counted.” Hamilton County poll worker Melowese Richardson was convicted last year of multiple counts of voter fraud and sentenced to five years in prison.
“A Hamilton County poll worker voted twice in the 2013 mayoral election, prompting the county elections board Tuesday to refer her to the prosecutor’s office. Casting two votes is a felony under Ohio law.
Carvin and von Spakovsky: “New Voting Rights Bill will manipulate elections and propagate racial gerrymandering”
The Wall Street Journal: This bill really isn’t about the Shelby County decision. It is about having the federal government manipulate election rules to propagate racial gerrymandering and guarantee success for Democratic candidates. It would make race a predominant issue in election administration, instead of what its goal should be—making sure every eligible voter is able to vote, regardless of race.
NC State Rep. Lewis: “NAACP hypocritical on voter ID”
WRAL reports from North Carolina: Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, pointed to a flier of “dos and don’ts” distributed to marchers, which included the instruction that marchers should “bring photo identification (driver’s license, passport or other valid id) with you and keep it on your person at all times.” Lewis pointed to polls showing that voter ID is popular among voters despite the opposition of liberal groups.
“The NC NAACP has filed suit in court to block this common sense idea,” Lewis wrote. “However, the NC NAACP requires their protesters to maintain valid photo identification on their person throughout the march. The idea that Chairman William Barber and his followers find it more important to carry their photo identification with them when marching than when electing the President of the United States is reprehensible.”
“NAACP Tells Protesters Against Voter ID to Bring ID”
Frontpage on North Carolina Moral March ID requirements
Wall Street Journal: Sensenbrenner/ACLU Bill Intended to Help Democrats
The Wall Street Journal has this piece about the Sensenbrenner/ACLU Voting Rights Act amendment:
“If adopted, this would mark the first time that the Voting Rights Act actually excluded some Americans from protection based on their race.”
“Nonpartisans” are trying to reverse Citizens United
Must read National Review analysis. If the Court hears Free Speech, and answers the question as it did in MCFL, the investigatory lever is neutralized: Any gang gunning for groups like Crossroads will have to allege quid pro quo corruption by alleging “coordination” with candidates.
But if the Court fails to hear Free Speech, or hears it and allows political-committee investigations to go forward against noncorrupting groups that report fully the costs of their independent expenditures and electioneering communications, rest assured the investigations will continue until Citizens United shrinks, silence ensues, and the regulatory state can scarcely be seen as an instrument of We, the People.
Photo ID required for NC Moral March: “NAACP requires marchers protesting North Carolina voter ID law to show photo ID”
Daily Caller highlights the idiocy: North Carolinians marching to protest voter-ID laws must present a valid photo ID to participate in an NAACP-hosted protest against voter-ID laws in Raleigh on Saturday. …According to official NAACP flyers passed out at the rally, protesters must carry the precise kind of ID that they would be expected to present at the voting booth.
