Juneau Empire: “A federal court has refused to block Alaska’s challenged redistricting process, but a top federal judge has said he’ll take a personal role in the case.”

 American Thinker: “The Just-Us lawyers are doing everything to keep voter rolls from being cleaned up and ridded of the dead, the non citizens, the ineligible and arguing that those efforts like efforts to require voter I.D. are somehow racist.”

An important decision in the NVRA case of Project Vote v. Long.  Opinion here.  This case will enable election integrity groups to gain more comprehensive access to voter registration information.  Project Vote sought to review voter registration information and a jurisdiction in Virginia refused to grant access.  One problem, federal law says they had a right to the information.  The district court disagreed with Virginia and last week the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (in an opinion by Judge Harvey Wilkinson) affirmed.  The basis was the plain language of the statute, raising the question why Virginia fought so hard to oppose access to public information.  Information allows citizen groups like True the Vote to judge whether or not government officials could be doing their jobs better, or are even following the law.

  Link.  “Rep. Thomas J. Rooney (R-Fla.) captured the frustration many Floridians feel as the White House labors feverishly against ballot integrity. As Rooney wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder on June 6: “While your department should be working with Florida to stop voter fraud, you are instead actively working to keep noncitizens — who have committed a felony — on our state’s voter rolls.””

link – Rasmussen Reports.

If a federal court approves, Grayson County will be exempted from a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act.  The Justice Department says it filed a consent decree Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.  The agreement also includes the county school district and the towns of Independence, Fries and Troutdale.

Update from Florida:  While partisan Democrats and vote-fraud enthusiasts bleat about the supposed unfairness of validating voter registration,
the state of Florida quietly continues discovering illegal voters. 
Responses to the certified letters sent to 2,600 questionable registered
voters continue to trickle in.  Many of those challenged by the Florida
Department of State have been able to produce documentation showing
they are, in fact, legal voters.

And many have not.

The one thing you almost never hear in media reports about
this supposedly “controversial” procedure, which the Justice Department
just filed suit to halt, is how many illegal voters it has discovered. 
According to a report in the Naples Daily News on Wednesday, that tally now stands at 96.

That’s ninety-six people who would have been “disenfranchised” if
Florida had not detected the ineligible voters.  The number of
legitimate voters accidentally and unfairly disenfranchised by Florida’s
procedure, meanwhile, is zero.

Full story at Human Events.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Tuesday defended controversial efforts by
Florida Gov. Rick Scott to purge the Sunshine State’s voter rolls,
denying it has targeted Hispanics.

“I wouldn’t characterize it as an effort to purge Latinos from the
voting rolls,” Rubio told reporters at a breakfast hosted by Bloomberg
News. “I think there’s the goal of ensuring that everyone who votes in
Florida is qualified to vote. If you’re not a citizen of the United
States, you shouldn’t be voting. That’s the law.”  Full Story at the link.

More here.