Out of West Virginia, West Virginia’s elections chief is enlisting allies to fight legislation that would require voters to show photo identification. Secretary of State Natalie Tennant unveiled the Voting Rights Protection Coalition on Monday at her Capitol office.  The group is targeting voter ID.

Whoa…. someone has forgotten about those voter fraud claims in 2010 that plagued West Virgina and started her very voter protection group out of her office.  Observers could have seen this coming with this headline earlier in the month:  Labor protest voter ID proposal. 

When it serves their own interest in the integrity of their elections, Unions have recognized the importance of photo ID.

The Arkansas House
passed the measure by a 51-44 vote, sending the bill back to the Senate
for final passage. The Senate last month approved the bill on a 23-12
vote but will need to sign off on an amendment before the legislation
can go to Gov. Mike Beebe. 

We will see if the Democratic Governor reverts to political default of opposition on the issue.

Link to story.

“The Beltway is buzzing over President Obama’s likely nomination of Thomas E. Perez as the next head of the U.S. Department of Labor. But when Americans find out whom Perez has lobbied for most aggressively over the course of his extremist leftwing social justice career, they’ll be wondering which country Obama’s pick really plans to serve.”  Human Events.

I will be going on the Mark Levin show nationwide at about 830 tonight to talk about the comic, tragic, absurd, disgusting and racialist information in the Inspector General report.

Example – Tom Perez saying that the DOJ enforces the law in a race neutral fashion, but with a straight face telling the Inspector General that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act can’t be used to protect a discriminated against white minority.  That falls in the comic and absurd categories both.

Early and unconfirmed word is that the DOJ Inspector General report damns the management of the Justice Department Civil Rights Division under Eric Holder. Likely labor nominee Tom Perez may not come out unscathered either.  Sources who have read the report indicate it presents a disfunctional Civil Rights Division and certainly supports firing one or more SES employees.  We’ll have details to follow at PJ Media.

 Anchorage Daily News

Mark Robinson at RGJ.com found the concept of bipartisan support for Voter ID to be so suspect, the outlet devoted a fact-checking piece to it.

Of course every poll on Voter ID shows bipartisan and bi-racial support, so it’s hard to imagine what is so surprising by the conclusions of the bipartisan Carter-Baker commission supporting free and easily obtained voter ID.

Arizona Republic editorial by the Attorney General of Arizona.

If, as Alabama and Arizona have urged, Section 5 is declared
unconstitutional, people can still bring lawsuits under Section 2 for
any alleged discrimination. But the huge and expensive administrative
burden of preclearance, which humiliates Arizona by making it say,
“Mother may I?” to the federal government every time it wants to change
some remarkably minor laws, will have been eliminated

Once upon a time, professors cared about election fraud.  Unlike today, when the only thing you will find the academy write about voter fraud is that it is a conspiratorial and overblown invention by a squad of writers, there was a time when the rule of law mattered more than obfuscation. 

A tip of the hat to Joseph P. Harris, PhD, a professor at the University of Washington, in 1934, who wrote this report:

“Several years ago the ballots of a number of the precincts in Chicago were recounted with the result that the recount tabulations showed a total difference from the original returns in many precincts running into thousands of votes.”