Story here.  Election Integrity Maryland says it has found proof that dead people voted.  Naturally the ACLU responds by saying this is an effort to disenfranchise minorities.  And naturally the reporter, C. Benjamin Ford, is more interested in PA Voter ID than if dead people really voted in Maryland.  Naturally, the ACLU is more interested in attacking citizens promoting election integrity than wondering if the dead really voted.

Crimes?  Not so important.  Criticizing law abiding citizens volunteering to clean up elections, now THAT’s the priority.

Alabama has filed a lawsuit against the DOJ to have state legislative redistricting plans approved.  Alabama is bypassing DOJ preclearance options for reasons discussed at length here at this blog and elsewhere. 

In the lawsuit, Alabama has argued that if the plans are not precleared or approved, then Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional.  Alabama is the latest state to seek approval in court and threaten the existence of Section 5.  The reason states are pursuing this option as opposed to administrative preclearance is the perception that the current DOJ is infused with partisan mischief and having open transparent litigation before a neutral magistrate as opposed to DOJ bureaucrats is the best means to have state sovereignty respected. 

 CNN.

 Fox News.  “The Department of Justice has embarrassed itself,” said Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz. “The partisan bias is obvious.”

Mark Levin spent much of last night pounding the phony registration forms sent by the Voter Participation Center and the review by the Virginia State Board of Elections – and requests for criminal investigations of the Voter Participation Center.  Link here starting at 7:00. 

Also, a former Civil Rights Division attorney makes a guest appearance at minute 39:00 and describes how the DOJ Voting Section is using the same data firm in their Texas Voter ID case that is also being used by the Voter Participation Project to send voter registration forms to dogs and the dead.  The guest also has suggestions how to cure the problem of lawyers who were hired for partisan and ideological reasons since 2009.

More on who is defending the Voting Participation Center over their mailing of voter registration forms to the dead and animals at PJ Tatler.

“ProgressVA, SEIU Local 512, Virginia Organizing, NARAL Pro-Choice VA, the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club, The Martin Luther King Jr. Living History and Public Policy Center, Virginia New Majority, the Voice of Vietnamese Americans, and Tenants and Workers United.”

Wrong side of the issue.

“This little thing I carry around is not a fire hose.  This is not a billy club.   This is a driver’s license.  I grew up in Alabama and know a thing or two about billy clubs.”  Artur Davis at the True the Vote election integrity summit held at Heritage yesterday with Scott Gessler, Catherine Englebrecht, Kris Kobach, and Alan Wilson.  (bbphoto:)

Why 2012 is going to be like no other election.  Pavlich at Town Hall.

 PJ Tatler has the details.

I will be on Dallas’ talk blowtorch tonight talking about the DOJ’s Keystone State Shakedown on Voter ID and how the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee started using the DOJ’s action within 24 hours to fundraise campaign cash.  7pm hour CDT.