Link to full story on the briefs prepared by state legislators for the Minnesota state Supreme Court. The court will determine if the voter ID question goes to the voters in November as the legislature proposed earlier this year.
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North Carolina update: “Voter ID measure fails to find bipartisan compromise”
Story at the link. After the November 2012 election, there will likely be a Republican majority (perhaps even supermajority) in the state legislature that will pass a photo ID bill and a Republican Governor to sign it.
“Unions claim Ohio trashes legal votes”
link here.
“Tens of thousands of service members’ votes not counted”
link to story.
DOJ Loses TRO Motion on Foreigner Purge
Palm Beach Post. “A federal judge denied the U.S. Department of Justice’s request for an emergency restraining order to halt Florida’s non-citizen voter purge and said the controversial scrub does not violate federal law.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Hinkle [Clinton appointee] heard arguments this morning from the Justice Department and Michael Carvin, a Washington lawyer representing Gov. Rick Scott’s administration. Carvin was one of the lead lawyers for President George W. Bush in the protracted 2000 recount legal wrangle.
Hinkle denied the request for the emergency stop to the program in part because he said the state was no longer doing it.
But he also rejected Justice Department attorney John Bert Russ’s argument that the non-citizen voter purge violates federal law.”
Alaska Raises Challenge to Section 5 of Voting Rights Act
Story here. The Department of Law announced Friday that it believed Alaska was unconstitutionally required to submit electoral changes to the federal government in a process known as preclearance. Attorney General Michael Geraghty and Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell issued a press release accusing the Feds of micromanaging Alaska’s elections.”
“A panel of federal judges on Tuesday said that it would not consider the state’s constitutional challenge to a key section of the Voting Rights Act during oral arguments over Alaska’s latest attempt to redraw legislative districts.
It was not clear from the story why Alaska waited so long in the litigation to raise a constitutional challenge to Section 5.
Ohio Voter Fraud Indictment
“Robert Gilchrist, former director of the Lorain County Community Action Agency and Lorain city official, was secretly indicted on four counts of illegal voting.” Morning Journal has more.
What is the “Community Action Agency”? From their website:
The Lorain County Community Action Agency was created in 1966 as a private non-profit organization dedicated to continuous improvement and betterment of the local communities.
The Lorain County Community Action Agency became a part of national policy “to eliminate the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty by opening to everyone the opportunity for education and training, the opportunity to work and the opportunity to live in decency and dignity.”
Judicial Watch and True the Vote Intervene in FL Voter Roll Cleanup
Judicial Watch and True the Vote have filed a motion to intervene in the NVRA case against Florida. The proposed intervenors seeks to defend Florida’s removal of foreigners from the voter rolls. More information here.
“Holder DOJ Uses Newspaper for Statistical Data Against Rick Scott”
PJ Rule of Law. “But then the DOJ goes where I didn’t think possible – the Voting Section lawyers cite a newspaper report for statistical evidence of racially discriminatory impact. Florida hits back.”
Virginia Teacher Indicted for Election Fraud
The Daily Progress has more.