I had a great visit as a guest of the Federalist Society at the Charlotte School of Law in North Carolina.  I talked about voter ID and voter fraud.

New polls show “Voter ID leads 56 percent to 39 percent in the latest Public Policy Polling poll, with 5 percent not sure… The Survey USA/KSTP poll had it at 62 percent to 31 percent in favor, with 7 percent undecided.”

In the Pee Dee.

““I don’t dispute its original intent, but I dispute how it’s being used now,” Wilson said of the VRA. “South Carolina is not the South Carolina of 50 years ago. We have a ways to go, but the standards that are being applied to us are dated and antiquated and it’s wrong.”

 Hawaii.  Be sure to watch the embedded video to find out … just about nothing.  Details perhaps soon to come?

link  A standoff over whether Texas’ largest county will check if 9,000 voters are actually dead before the November elections escalated Wednesday when the state warned election officials in Houston that funding could be stripped if they don’t comply.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program (SAVE) database as well as personal admissions from illegally registered voters have confirmed 207 non-citizens have been on Florida’s voter rolls. The confirmed names will be provided to county supervisors of elections shortly after supervisors complete their federal training on how to use the SAVE database, which they are expected to do this week.

It appears the State of Florida and the counties are close to finishing their rough swim upstream and finally implemented a process for the identification of non-citizens and prompt removal from the rolls.  After the federal government dragged its feet for over a year before providing access to the SAVE database and DoJ trying to stop the process in its embryonic stage, this much more accurate process is finally becoming a reality.  Yes, and what was the difference in vote totals in 2000?   537. 

See rest of press release here.

The N.C. Board of Elections was already reviewing most of the 27,500 names of people that a Raleigh-based anti-election fraud group says remain registered to vote after they died.  The Voter Integrity Project delivered the names to the elections board on Aug. 31, saying it was concerned about the potential for voting fraud. The board began reviewing the list last Tuesday and determined that it had almost 20,000 of the names from a 10-year audit of data from the state Department of Health and Human Services, said Veronica Degraffenreid, the board’s director of voter registration and absentee voting.  More than one third of those 20,000 names were already listed as inactive, meaning they were on track for removal from the voting rolls, Degraffenreid said.   Link to full story

An example of citizen grassroots efforts pushing election officials to make maximum efforts to keep their rolls clean.

State Attorney General Mike DeWine and Secretary of State Jon Husted yesterday explained the rationale for treating some voters differently from others in a 74-page brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.

“The Equal Protection Clause does not prevent a government from applying different rules to those in demonstrably different circumstances,” DeWine said. Military voters face “special burdens” not shared by civilians including deployment on short notice and active-duty travel restrictions, he said.  Link to full story

The Pentagon says things will be fine come November 6. I certainly hope so.

Secretary Panetta said he will explain the communication problems directly to the senators. It’s my opinion that he owes the American public an explanation as well.   link.

When the Pentagon speaks, they usually have an attentive audience.