York County (PA) cleans up the rolls.
Orlando Sentinel: Voter ID is Common Sense
“South Carolina defeated the U.S. Justice Department’s false claim in court last year that its voter ID law was discriminatory. The law went into effect with no problems — the same result as in every state that has implemented voter ID despite the hysterical claims of critics. Florida knows from its own experience with voter ID that such a requirement does not pose a problem for legitimate voters.” Link
“NC Republicans Vow to Fight US DOJ Over Voter Laws”
Gov. Pat McCrory said Monday he has hired a private lawyer to help defend the new law from what he suggested was a partisan attack by President Barack Obama’s Democratic administration. “I believe the federal government action is an overreach and without merit,” McCrory said at a brief media conference during which he took no questions. “I firmly believe we have done the right thing. I believe this is good law.”
“Ohio lawmaker’s election reform bills include voter ID requirement, reduced early-voting times”
North Carolina: “DOJ lawsuit over voter ID is baseless”
Earlier in the day, Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis called the federal prosecutors claims “baseless.” Reacting to the lawsuit, the two Republican legislative leaders issued a joint statement saying it is “nothing more than an obvious attempt to quash the will of the voters and hinder a hugely popular voter ID requirement.’ “The law was designed to improve consistency, clarity and uniformity at the polls and it brings North Carolina’s election system in line with a majority of other states,” the statement continued. “We are confident it protects the right of all voters, as required by the U.S. and North Carolina Constitutions.”
Link to the Raleigh News Observer.
DOJ sues to stop North Carolina voter ID bill …almost three years before implementation date
Despite an extended 2016 implementation date, the DoJ is so confident that the basis concept of the voter ID bill is racist and discriminatory and the educational and outreach part of the bill so hopeless, they have decided to sue in 2013. Apparently, just the passage of the bill is evidence of discrimination.
No November Election in Palmdale CA
“A Los Angeles County judge ruled that Palmdale would not be able to have a City Council election in November, an attorney suing over a California Voting Rights Act violation said Monday.”
“A Polling Place of Their Own”
The New York Times covers how True the Vote helped get a polling place at Prairie View A and M.
“Students at Prairie View A&M University, the state’s oldest historically black public college, have fought for decades to persuade Waller County to allow a polling place on the campus. Now an unlikely coalition has succeeded, by cobbling together a compromise in time for the November election.”
Huff Post: Late to the Party on Voter Fraud
The Huffington Post has this piece quoting the Texas Attorney General as saying that without voter fraud, Obamacare wouldn’t exist.
They’re a bit late to the party. Hans von Spakovsky and John Fund documented this in their book Who’s Counting over a year ago.
DOJ to Sue North Carolina Over Voter ID
Once upon a time the Justice Department didn’t leak the news of a forthcoming Section 2 lawsuit before the Voting Section filed one. Washington Post covers the leaks of the forthcoming Voter ID lawsuit in North Carolina.