Center for Individual Freedom:

“The Left has spent years slinging at conservatives the calumny that we want to block access to the polls by minority groups.  The charge is a vile slander.  Yet in the space of just two weeks, DNC chiefs have twice gone public with the allegation – race-baiting for all they are worth – in a raw attempt to foment racial tension. Beneath the surface, it’s also an attempt to provide a smokescreen for fraudulent voting.”

Rasmussen Reports released their national telephone survey that finds 75% of Likely U.S. Voters believe voters should be required to show photo identification such as a driver’s license before being allowed to vote. Just 18% disagree and oppose such a requirement. Eighty-five percent (85%) of Republicans support a photo ID requirement at the polls, as do 77% of voters not affiliated with either major party and 63% of Democrats. But then support for such a law is high across virtually all demographic groups.

Supporters of photo ID laws say they will prevent fraud at the polls; opponents insist the laws will discourage many including minorities and older Americans from voting. By a 48% to 29% margin, voters think that letting ineligible people vote is a bigger problem than preventing legitimate voters from casting a ballot.  A plurality (46%) of Democrats thinks it’s more common for eligible voters to be denied their right to vote. Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republicans and a plurality (44%) of voters not affiliated with either party, on the other hand, believe that illegal voting is more prevalent.

The DNC Chair (literally) unleashed history to oppose policy proposals such as voter ID.  Bryan Preston at Pajamas Media:

“Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has since apologized for bringing up Jim Crow. But she still sounds like an old Mad TV sketch. Literally.”

La Shawn Barber has this piece today at Pajamas Media.

“The purpose of civil rights laws is to remove racial considerations from the selection process, and civil service exams were created to ensure that candidates are hired for government jobs on merit and not on political patronage or personal favor. The government has subverted the process in favor of one where ‘diversity,’ not fairness or merit, has become the highest principle.”

New American Media. “The Prince William County case shows what’s likely to become more common in the future, according to redistricting experts. No single ethnic group in the county—even in Virginia New Majority’ s proposed “fair” map— holds more than 30 percent of the voting-age population in a district.”

WNYT.  “Some charges could be dropped against one of the two men indicted in the voter fraud scandal in Troy.”

Rock Hill Herald.