“State asks court to force feds to modify voter registration forms”

Saying he is not willing to maintain a dual registration system, Secretary of State Ken Bennett is asking the court to order the federal Election Assistance Commission to modify its voter registration forms to demand proof of citizenship.

In legal filings Wednesday, Bennett said he needs an immediate order to ensure that Arizona and Kansas — which is seeking the same relief — are not denied “their sovereign and constitutional right to establish and enforce voter qualifications.” Without the order, Bennett said the state will forced to register unqualified voters.

Planned Parenthood attacks voter ID in Texas

In Texas, ABC reports that Planned Parenthood fighting to increase abortion, diverges and attacks voter ID.  Generally, the Democrats occasionally shift from the race card to the “women’s health” card but who would have figured.
Texas’ photo ID measure has been challenged by the Justice Department, which says it discriminates against minorities and low-income voters. But the impact on women, who may have trouble proving their identity because their names changed due to marriage, has been the latest headline-grabbing side effect.

Democrats hope these stories will help build public opposition to voter ID measures in states like Texas, North Carolina and Pennsylvania a full year before it matters in critical congressional and gubernatorial races.

“We are seeing now, thank goodness a year ahead of time of the November 2014 elections, just exactly what the consequences are,” Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood and a native Texan, told a small group of reporters this morning.

“I do think that all of the lifting up of these stories are really important because they’re a chance for these legislatures to do the right thing,” she added.