Here is a video Bob Carey at the Overseas Vote Foundation conference.

Minute 21.  “If there was any other community in the United States where 300,000 of them were systematically unable to cast their ballots” people would be outraged.   Spot on.

Big surprise here. The New York Post has the story.  I’m sure the Justice Department will be opening an investigation under Section 8 of the the National Voter Registration Act – maybe in 2013.

Here.

Yesterday North Carolina Republicans compromised and agreed to drop voter ID as part of an election package.  Today, Democrats decided they didn’t want any polling place checks at all, including use of a voter registration card, something that presumably every real registered voter would possess.  More here.  Sometimes such extreme positions are taken that it leads to perfectly reasonable questions about the motives of such opposition.  Why would they oppose production of a document that a voter per se must have to be a registered voter?  If they have lost it, surely they could vote a provisional ballot, right?  What rational justification could support this position other than potentially wanting to manipulate the system?

Washington Times.

Newsfirst5.com has more.

Yakima Washington has been sued under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.  Election Law Center reported last year that threats to sue Yakima face legal problems. According to people familiar with the details of Yakima population numbers, Gingles One simply cannot be satisfied in Yakima unless non-citizen population is used.  Gingles One requires any proposed minority district to have a majority minority population within the confines of the district.  Only if non-citizen and illegal aliens are used, can a district be drawn where Gingles One is satisfied.  If a judge agreed with the plaintiffs in Yakima, it would have the effect of diluting citizen votes to benefit non-citizen populations.  Because of this, Yakima should aggressively fight the lawsuit and not settle under any condition. 

None of this is a surprise to the plaintiffs.  To the contrary, the lawsuit was concocted by Joaquin Avila.  Avila hails from academia and is a well known advocate for illegal alien voting.  If you can’t get them to vote, you might as well get them represented in government.  This is an extremely important issue that deserves national attention.  It is the beachhead for a legal concept foreign to American law, that illegal aliens deserve political representation.  It is a position that the Justice Department under Eric Holder has adopted in a case against the City of Irving (TX).  It received virtually no attention but was covered here at Election Law Center.

Here.

How Eric Holder and Barack Obama Squandered the Promise of a Post-Racial America

” . . . The other reason the left fears discussion about the New Black Panther voter intimidation is that it breaks up the narrative of the last 50 years – that only some races have bad racial actors and only some races are victims.  This is why Kristen Clarke of the NAACP has been so hostile to cases like United States v. Ike Brown and the New Black Panther case.  She is part of an industry that has thrived by a static definition of oppressor and oppressed.  At one time, her version of history was wholly accurate.  But men are not angels, and every race has bad actors. . .  .”

Here.