“Alabama Democrats and African Americans will make an unusual request: that black voting strength in majority-black districts should be diluted. When it comes to making about three dozen legislative districts hospitable to black candidates, they say, enough is enough. . . .”They’re not trying to enhance minority representation. They’re simply trying to enhance white Democratic representation,” Carvin says. “This is all about politics.”

USA Today

The data keep coming.  Voter ID doesn’t affect turnout:

“Indiana voter turnout in the two presidential elections before mandatory voter ID was 56 percent in 2000 and 58 percent in 2004. Turnout in presidential elections after ID was required in Indiana jumped to 62 percent in 2008 and fell back to 58 percent in 2012.

Voter ID also appears to have had little negative effect on Indiana midterm election turnout.

Before ID, turnout was 44 percent in 1998 and 39 percent in 2002. After ID, turnout was 40 percent in 2006 and 41 percent in 2010.

At the same time, the suspicion that Democrats would be unduly harmed by the voter ID law — the theory being low-income Hoosiers who vote Democratic are most likely not to possess an ID — also hasn’t come to pass.”

Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann pops voter ID opponents, this one, an academic at Wisconsin and on the payroll of Voter ID plaintiffs: ” As part of Mississippi’s implementation, we provided free transportation to any citizen to the local circuit clerk’s office (99 percent of the citizens of Mississippi live within 20 miles of a circuit clerk’s office); we provided free verification for birth certificates at the circuit clerk’s office and free issuance of a Mississippi voter ID. Over 2,000 of those were issued. Following any election, voters are given a week to return with photo identification and verify their ballot.

The unsubstantiated claim as to the availability and the possession of photo identification by any voting population is totally false. In two statewide elections, which included both Democratic and Republican primaries, 99.9 percent of Mississippians exhibited satisfactory photo identification. No one was deprived of their right to vote. Particularly, the reference to the quote that our state continues “to deprive people of their vote, with the same sordid racial overtones continues today” is false, an unsubstantiated personal opinion and not those of the voting citizens of the state of Mississippi. No litigation was filed concerning Mississippi’s implementation of voter ID by the U.S. Department of Justice, any citizens group, or any citizen.”

“Hempstead school officials will need to hold a new election for a highly-contested school board seat after amid an investigation into allegations of voter fraud in a May school board election, New York State Education Commissioner John B. King ruled Thursday.”

Examiner.

Rassmussen poll shows low approval:

Further, of these respondents, only nine percent hold a “very favorable” opinion, while 26 percent hold a “very unfavorable” position.

But this is the really unsettling discovery in the survey: “Just 35% think the Justice Department is more concerned with making sure justice is done when it decides to investigate a local crime independent of local police. But 54% think instead that the Justice Department is more concerned with politics when it makes those decisions.”

Jennifer Kerns on the merging of civil rights and Democrat party interests:

“Never satisfied to let a crisis go to waste, Al Sharpton gave a speech in Ferguson on August 17 that was televised LIVE on MSNBC in which he notified the community that “booths” were being set up around protest sites to register voters. While encouraging participation in our system is admirable, Sharpton has made no secret of his dislike for the Republican Party; therefore, one can presume that Sharpton’s invitation was a battle cry to join the Democrat Party.”

“In court documents, lawyers for the Texas attorney general cited a 2013 report by the Justice Department’s inspector general. That report found insufficient evidence to support allegations that inappropriate racial or partisan considerations affected the agency’s enforcement of voting rights laws, but lawyers for Texas highlighted parts of the report that found “deep ideological polarization” within the department’s Voting Section.”  Link to New York Times.

Daily Caller.

I’ll be on with Megyn Kelly on the Kelly File discussing Eric Holder’s racialist approach to running the Justice Department Civil Rights Division.  The hour long special is set to re-run all Labor Day weekend.

PJ Tatler: “Sometimes voter fraud deniers are forced to discuss the truth of voter fraud.  This happened today at the Washington Post. (“Fairfax officials say some people may have crossed Va.-Md. line to vote twice in 2012.”)  While the Post deserves credit from emerging from its cocoon of voter fraud denial, it deserves scorn for bungling the emergence.

Reporter Susan Svrluga notes that “tens of thousands of voters” were registered to cast ballots in both Virginia and Maryland.  That’s true, and it is a big problem nationwide.  Hundreds of thousands of people are registered to vote in multiple states, and many of them have voted.

It wasn’t Eric Holder’s Justice Department that discovered the problem.  That won’t happen because as I reported at PJ Media in 2010, Obama political appointees expressly shut down the efforts at DOJ to detect this sort of fraud and inadequate voter roll maintenance.”