Story here.

Family Security Matters.  Of course that would make it more Constitutional on one count, and less so on another.

Myrtle Beach Sun News: 

“Duran’s staff had been comparing the list of registered voters in New Mexico with the state Motor Vehicle Division database. About 83,000 people who have New Mexico driver’s licenses are in the foreign database, and some of them are not U.S. citizens. New Mexico is one two states that issues driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.”

More here.

Here.

“Numerous academic studies have also shown that voter ID does not depress the turnout of minority, poor and elderly voters. Georgia and Indiana saw no decrease in the turnout of such voters in elections after their voter ID laws went into effect. All the federal and state lawsuits filed against Georgia and Indiana were thrown out. Why? Because the plaintiffs couldn’t produce anyone who would be unable to vote because of the voter ID requirements.”

Majorities of Democrats, independents and Republicans all support Voter ID according to a new poll.

Human Events:
“. . . Citizens in uniform serving overseas, who might vote Republican, are routinely denied the right to vote when ballots are mailed “too late” to be returned in time to count.  When a Republican wins a close race, uncounted ballots are “found” in the backseat of a Democrat poll worker’s car.
 
American elections are getting more corrupt every election year. . . . “

More here.

The Alabama legislature has passed Voter ID.

Numerous states will most likely soon submit new election laws directly to district court, bypassing a DOJ that is no longer trusted by much of the Republican legislative community.  Is a litigation avalanche in the works?  North Carolina redistricting may be the next, but not the last, to bypass DOJ and go straight to court. 

WRAL :“Clearly, we’d rather take it through the channel that we think best benefits us in terms of getting the plans through. I generally have a high degree of confidence in the courts,” Tillis said.

“We just think it’ll be a lot faster to get pre-clearance,” House Redistricting Chair David Lewis added. “Basically, all you’re doing is filing a suit against the Justice Department to pre-clear your plan, and it makes them respond.” Lewis said Republicans are concerned that “if we went the other route, it would get put off and put off and put off and put off, till all of the sudden we don’t have time – we don’t have fair and legal districts.”

Tillis and Lewis are right.