“How many people who want to vote don’t have an ID?  So far, the answers to this question have been partial, theoretical or politically calculated.” 

The entire Obama campaign is a slice-and-dice operation, pandering to
one group after another, particularly those that elected Obama in 2008 —
blacks, Hispanics, women, young people — and for whom the thrill is now
gone.

What to do? Try fear. Create division, stir resentment, by
whatever means necessary — bogus court challenges, dead-end Senate bills
and a forest of straw men.

Why else would the Justice Department challenge
the photo ID law in Texas? To charge Republicans with seeking to
disenfranchise Hispanics and blacks, of course. But in 2008 the Supreme
Court upheld a similar law from Indiana. And it wasn’t close: 6 to 3, the majority including the venerated liberal John Paul Stevens.

Moreover,
photo IDs were recommended by the 2005 Commission on Federal Election
Reform, co-chaired by Jimmy Carter. And you surely can’t get into the
attorney general’s building without one. Are Stevens, Carter and Eric
Holder anti-Hispanic and anti-black?

full column.

The Missouri Show-Me Institute reports:  Voter fraud can swing elections, especially close ones. If voter
fraud constitutes 2 percent, or 1 percent, or even 1/2 percent of the
vote total, how many races does that affect? How many statewide and
local races have you seen decided by a point or less, and how likely is
it that none of those races turned on fraudulent votes?

Every vote should count, every vote should be protected, and every
attempt to distort the will of the electorate with the casting of
illegal ballots should be turned back. Preventing voter fraud through
reasonable identification measures that we already accept to drive cars,
board airplanes, and enter some government buildings is not an undue
burden on voters’ rights to vote. Rather, it is a burden on voters’
rights to allow the floodgates of voter fraud and abuse to remain open.

More at PJ Rule of Law.  “I am so tired of race being a dividing factor in our communities.  I grew up poor in Birmingham, Alabama, and I will tell you, in the black community they don’t have a lot of opportunities, there’s not a lot of banks, so where are you going to get your check cashed at?  The liquor store, or you go to a check cashing place. 

You can’t do anything without an ID in the black community.  Sometimes they won’t even let you use your debit card unless they can verify you are who you are, because they lose money on fraudulent purchases every year.  These are the realities of being poor and being black in America.  Why is Sharpton ignoring this?  He knows exactly what I’m talking about, but he’s a professional race baiter.  He smells that 8mm camera film and he comes running out there and he pulls out that platinum race card.”

Kevin Mooney has this extensive and detailed piece at Capital Research Center.

“The Soros connection is worth greater scrutiny because the Advancement Project appears set to supersede Project Vote as the leading apologist for voter fraud in the 2012 elections. With Soros’s backing the Advancement Project is in a position to far outspend groups advocating voter integrity measures. . . .

The Soros connection is worth greater scrutiny because the Advancement Project appears set to supersede Project Vote as the leading apologist for voter fraud in the 2012 elections. With Soros’s backing the Advancement Project is in a position to far outspend groups advocating voter integrity measures.”

Brandon Darby at Breitbart.com.  “The Chronicle’s Joe Holley initiated this round of accusations against True the Vote and their founder, Catherine Engelbrecht. Media Matters for America repeated it shortly thereafter. . . . Holley has used the Houston Chronicle as his medium to make the same claim on two other occasions. However, the problem with these publications’ joint claim is that it is patently false.”

Hundreds of candidates are going to be knocked off the ballots.  Supreme Court opinion is here.  In short, the candidates filed their statement of economic interest at a time other than when they filed their cadidate forms.  SC Supreme Court says they cannot be on the ballot.

 National Review.  “Indeed, a brand-new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that 64 percent of Americans believe voter fraud is a serious problem, with whites registering 63 percent agreement and African-Americans 64 percent.  . . .  [Artur] Davis made it clear in his speech to True the Vote that much of the opposition to voter-ID and ballot-integrity laws is a sad attempt to inject racism into the discussion and intimidate supporters of anti-fraud laws. ‘This is not a billy club, this is not a fire hose,” he told his audience while holding up his driver’s license.'”

The three-judge panel in the Texas voter ID case … said that it “was disinclined” to grant requests to postpone the scheduled July 9 trial in the case and said that it was “committed, if at all possible, to decide th[e] case in time for the law, if pre-cleared, to be effective for the November 2012 elections.”

At PJ Media.