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Issac Bailey mischaracterizes DOJ actions

Issac Bailey, writer for the Sun News in Myrtle Beach (SC), has this erroneous statement about voter fraud and the Bush Justice Department in this article:


“An aggressive five-year probe by the Justice Department during President George W. Bush’s administration to identify, prove and root out voter fraud turned up very little.”

This is an innacurate statement.  Bailey’s willingness to so state is emblematic of the general tendancy of voter fraud deniers to say things that diminish the problem of voter fraud in hopes the accuracy of the statement will never be checked.  Not surprisingly, Bailey then cites another notorious voter fraud denier.  The full article is here.

Daily Caller: Court revives Kinston challenge

Caroline May at the Daily Caller has this piece on the Kinston case challenging the Justice Department’s objection to moving Kinston (NC) to non-partisan city council elections:



“It’s outrageously offensive,” said Iowa Republican Rep. Steven King. “And it should be offensive to, especially, African Americans to be pandered to in that way, and to have the Department of Justice tell them that they don’t have the ability to discern who to vote for by name, that they can only discern that if it’s party, and it presumes that all African Americans are Democrats.”

NOLA: “Registering to vote is no big mystery.”

An op-ed in Louisiana’s largest newspaper about the Justice Department lawsuit under Section 7 of  Motor Voter:  “If the state has indeed failed to drag the poor and disabled onto the electoral register, that is hardly the same as barring access. The requisite forms are available everywhere, and that should be enough. It is plainly absurd for a federal government on the brink of default to spend our money in an attempt to force the state to treat adult citizens like backward children.  Registering to vote is so easy that anyone who can’t figure it out — especially in a government assistance office — would be all at sea on election day anyway. If ever such a sap did find the way to a polling station, he’d be baffled once he got inside the booth.”  This is the same Justice Department that refuses to enforce Section 8 of Motor Voter, the provision which requires states to remove dead and ineligible voters.

Latino Population Increase Reshapes Elections Districts


NYT discusses redistricting of emerging Hispanic populations in various states.  

excerpt:   Here in Nevada, Democrats, who control the State Legislature, have drawn a new Congressional map that includes a district where Latinos would make up 37 percent of the residents, and two other districts in which Latino residents would make up about a quarter of the population. Under their plan, three of the state’s four districts would be dominated by registered Democrats, while Republicans could keep one.


But Brian Sandoval, the Republican governor, vetoed the Democrats’ plans, arguing that they violated the Voting Rights Act by not establishing a district with a Latino majority even though, the governor said, “such a district can clearly and simply be drawn.”


The state’s Republicans have offered their own plan — one in which Republican residents would control two of the four Congressional seats, and Democrats the other two. In one of the Democratically controlled districts, Latino residents would make up just over 50 percent of the residents — giving them, in essence, their own seat; the other districts would include far fewer Latinos