DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL) came to the defense of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) claiming that “the EAC is the last line of defense that voter fraud is investigated and enforcing the consequences for engaging in voter fraud.” 

In her interview with MSNBC, she then accuses the Republicans of hypocrisy in their vote to terminate the EAC because there would no longer be an agency investigating voter fraud, an issue supposedly important to the GOP.  Yesterday, Democrats make other similarly misinformed statements on the floor of the House of Representatives, stating that the EAC had the power to protect the voting rights and voting access of citizens  It has neither the responsibility nor the enforcement powers the Democrats claim it has. 

The fact is that the EAC doesn’t investigate voter fraud criminal violations or enforce a single civil or criminal law designed to prevent voter fraud.  The EAC also doesn’t enforce any law to provide voter access to the polls.  That job whould actaully be completed by local and federal law enforcement authorities, certainly not a civil agency with limited rule-making authority.   

Similarly, the EAC doesn’t enforce or protect the voting rights of a single citizen or actually administer any elections.  Apparently Schultz-Wasserman and the Democrats are helplessly confused between what the Department of Justice should be doing and what they dream the EAC is actually doing.  With DOJ failing to enforce laws might actually prevent voter fraud, it is easy to get confused.

A few things are clear though.  Wasserman-Schultz either has no idea what she is talking about or she is simply acting stupid so she can demagogue the issue.  Probably both.

Any fact-check journalist willing to take on the leading Democrat idiot leader? 

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 Washington Post.  Also bad news for the EAC.

The Hill reports: The House on Thursday approved a bill ending the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) that was set up to ensure states meet certain standards at the voting booth, and ending the public financing of presidential campaigns. The bill passed in a mostly partisan 235-190 vote.

On the same day that the House of Representatives voted to terminate the EAC as an agency, sources also confirm that one of the two remaining Commissioners, Donetta Davidson, will retire from the beleagured agency effective December 31, 2011.  Her resignation will leave the EAC with just one of the total four commissioners.  This retirement follows the recent resignation of Tom Wilkey, who served as Executive Director of the EAC.  

As expected, the debate was simply over the top with Democrats accusing Republicans of engaging in a voter suppression plan to in 2012 by eliminating an agency that enforces voting rights and protects voters. 

“There is no doubt that a voter suppression effort is underway in this nation,” Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) charged on the House floor. “Abolishing the Election Assistance Commission, an agency charged with ensuring that the vote of each American counts, is just another step in the voter suppression effort and would completely remove oversight of the most important process in our democracy.”  Another Democrat, Rep. William Clay (D-Mo.), said the only reason to want to end the EAC is to “suppress votes,” and said votes that would be lost are minority votes, “the same groups who were targeted by Jim Crow laws.” 

A panel of Missouri appeals court judges released new boundaries for Missouri
House and Senate districts Wednesday based on the 2010 census, saying
some “significant changes” were necessary to account for population
shifts during the past decade.

The new maps that reshaped districts across the state will take effect for 2012 elections,
potentially pitting some incumbents against each other and, in some
cases, forcing majority-party Republicans to defend some seats that now
will have a majority of Democratically inclined voters.

and this:

From a partisan perspective, Republicans appeared to keep their advantage in the new maps based on voting patterns from the 2002-2010 elections.

Republicans currently hold a 26-8 majority over
Democrats in the Senate. An analysis released with the new maps shows
that Republican-inclined voters comprise the majority of residents in 23
of the new districts, compared with 11 for Democrats. The voting-trend analysis, released along with the maps, was based on results from federal and state elections from 2002 to 2010.

House Republicans currently hold a 106-57 majority over
Democrats — a tally which includes one Democrat who was elected as an
independent. The analysis of the new House boundaries shows 102
Republican-inclined districts and 61 Democratic-inclined districts.

The full story can be found here.

An exceptionally well written article by Ray Hartwell at the Washington Times about the Section 2 lawsuit in Guam:

“Although its failure to take action against this illegal discrimination is neither the first nor the most notorious race-based law enforcement decision by the Obama Justice Department, it is significant because, unlike most others, it threatens not only the rule of law but also our national security. Justice’s Guam inaction is a “twofer,” one that advances the Obama administration’s twin strategies of assault on the rule of law at home and the weakening of America abroad.”

The Broward Republican Executive Committee released an open letter to
Brenda Snipes, the county’s Supervisor of Elections, claiming it’s
unfair that there aren’t any early voting sites in Republican State Sen.
Ellyn Bogdanoff’s district.

“Not having
early voting locations in this area serves to disenfranchise all voters
in this area, while especially disenfranchising the Republican voters,”
writes BREC chairman Richard DeNapoli.

More on the allegations here.  Don’t expect the media or some anointed election protection attorney to come to the rescue.  But what about the Florida Department of State?  This is the type of unfairness that Republican majorities in the state House and Senate should review closely and consider additional changes to early voting requirements.

Today you can follow the schedule of legislative activities to be debated in the House of Representatives and watch the live feed of the debate. Here is the link.

Fox Business video:  Artur Davis goes national on FOX to discuss voter fraud and voter ID.

In sum, Artur Davis reiterates that he has witnessed extensive voter fraud in the rural areas of his former congressional district.  He asserts that in every campaign there were always a few counties where he knew the ballots were going to be “cooked.”  He came to understand that this was simply the way politics was practiced.  Davis also discusses his support for voter ID, arguing that transparency in casting a ballot is something that progressives should be able to support.