“Groups like the NAACP and ACLU are looking to justify their continued existence, decades after they won the fight. Opposition to voter ID helps them fundraise and pay salaries. So next time you wonder why Democrats oppose photo ID, don’t fall for the easy answer. Don’t think it’s because Democrats have organized cheating operations. The real answer is much more sophisticated, and much more sinister.”

Pittsburgh Tribune Review.

I joined Megyn Kelly to talk Ferguson and hypocrisy from Eric Holder.

Link here to NBC coverage of the O’Keefe Vote By Mail sting.  Not encouraging that the handwriting analysis skills of non-experts is the “check” against vote by mail fraud.

Attorney Paul Mirengoff at Powerline has this commentary on DOJ’s use of expert witnesses:

“The requirements that the DOJ’s witness found blacks less able than whites to comply with are (1) registering to vote before the day of the election and (2) voting in the precinct where one lives. Since one needn’t be at all “sophisticated” to comply with either requirement, the DOJ’s witness, who was paid with our tax dollars, must have little regard for African-Americans.”

American Thinker on DOJ’s expert in NC:

“It is amazing what Eric Holder’s minions are willing to say in order to facilitate vote fraud. Up to and including demeaning arguments about the intelligence and sophistication of blacks. The mainstream media can relied upon to avoid publicizing the testimony just provided by Charles Stewart, an MIT political scientist hired by Eric Holder’s Justice Department to testify in a case involving election integrity laws in North Carolina.”

“The NAACP’s expert was another professor, Barry Burden, of the University of Wisconsin. Burden claimed that blacks and Hispanics are less able “to pay the costs of voting” because of the “stark differences between whites, on the one hand, in North Carolina and those of blacks and Latinos in North Carolina.” By costs, Burden was referring to “the time and effort that a voter has to put in in order to participate.” That includes “locating the polling place, getting the right paperwork, understanding who the candidates are, becoming informed.” From his testimony, it was clear that Burden did not think that blacks and Hispanics have the same ability as whites to accomplish basic tasks such as locating a polling place, filling out a one-page voter-registration form, and learning what issues candidates support or oppose.”

Link here.

Vote by mail is unlikely to spread to other states.  Why? Because it promotes voter fraud, as exposed by this latest James O’Keefe video.  Vote by mail puts into the hands of the federal government the instruments of state elections.  Vote by mail decentralizes the process of voting away from the eyes of supervision by election officials.  Vote by mail makes it more likely ballots will be cast by those not entitled to cast them, and nobody will ever be able to catch it.

Of note, a Greenpeace activist and Udall supporter says on camera that “Ghetto Aurora” is the best place to find Vote By Mail ballots which have been thrown in the trash to vote.

Link.

Shameful testimony by a hired DOJ expert witness. Full story here.

It seems so in Colorado:

“He noted that voters have to scrounge up postage, an extra hassle. It’s 70 cents in Denver (two stamps) but varies by county based on the ballot’s weight.”