“Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning says he does not understand why his ex-colleagues, the state’s elections supervisors, howl about the pernicious new election rules signed into law by Gov. Scott this month. A longtime supervisor himself, he insists that there is ‘nothing in this bill that as a supervisor would cause me any heartburn.'”

The rest of the editorial here.

The Gonzales Cannon: “The charges against him stem from the 2009 Gonzales Municipal Election when Grant, Gonzales City Councilman for District 1 at that time, assisted another candidate (Charles Roaches) during his campaign, and marked dozens of voters as disabled on their mail-in ballot applications.”

The House Administration Committee voted to pass out of committee HR 672 as revised and named the “Election Support Consolidation and Efficiency Act.” 

Voting to kill the EAC:

Harper
Gingrey
Schock
Nugent 

Voting to Keep the EAC:
Brady
Lofgren 
Gonzalez

Latest at PJ Tatler about the goings on in the federal government courtesy of your tax dollars.

Here.  NPR opened the phones soliciting voters who had no identification.  They finally got one.  Jeremy from Oregon:

JEREMY (Caller): Yeah, I have – I’ve lived in Portland for 10 years. I tried to get Oregon ID. I didn’t try very hard. They wanted about eight pieces of ID. I don’t drive. So it wasn’t very pressing.

I had, you know, current California ID. When that expired, I happened to be in California. I’d flown in legally. I got new ID while I was there using a friend’s address, and I’ve continued to live without ID.

I’m sort of a haphazard voter. I spent most of my life, you know, wearing a shirt that said piss in the voting booth on Election Day. I have since started voting irregularly, and I would definitely not get ID if I had to.

And I would feel somewhat disenfranchised, even though I don’t value the franchise a whole lot. Oregon charges like $50, and, you know, they list things like plane licenses. I don’t use credit cards, either, you know, plane licenses, hunting licenses and various other things that are considered legitimate, and I don’t have any of those things.

And even with current California ID, if I were to get another one, which would be – I’d be committing fraud to do so, I would have trouble getting Oregon ID. It’s really not that easy to get ID, I don’t believe.

CONAN: Really?

JEREMY: That’s with my, you know, limited halfhearted attempt. To be honest, I wouldn’t mind moving back to California. I hate the climate here.  I just can’t afford to live there anymore. So I’m also making some sort of, you know, nostalgic statement about, you know, where I wish I lived.

More here.

“With the Legislature apparently out of time to produce a congressional redistricting plan before the session ends Monday, U.S. Rep. Joe Barton has filed a lawsuit asking a state court in Corsicana to do the job. Barton, R-Arlington, filed the suit at 12:01 a.m. Sunday in Navarro County District Court, according to his spokesman and an Austin attorney representing Barton in congressional redistricting matters.  ‘We’re in a situation where the Legislature can’t draw a map and so from our standpoint we filed a lawsuit to ask the court to draw a map,’ said attorney Trey Trainor of the Beirne, Maynard & Parsons firm.”

The article linked here and below contains this stunner about EAC Commissioner Gracia Hillman.  It indicates that she may have lied to Department of Labor investigators:

“On March 14, 2011, DOL informed the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that the lawyer’s claim of discrimination was ‘meritorious and that the claimant is entitled to the position of General Counsel and compensation for lost wages and other benefits.’ The DOL letter stated that Hillman asked the lawyer “inappropriate questions regarding his military obligations” during his interview. Even worse, she apparently lied to DOL investigators when she ‘denied making any comments about [the lawyer’s] military commitments.’ Witnesses present during the interview confirmed that Hillman had asked these inappropriate questions.”

Pajamas Media.  EAC, Gracia Hillman.

The Arctic Sounder has the story.