PJ Tatler.

Florida is planning to take action to keep voter rolls clean.

Houston Courier.

Halloween horror a bit early as Wisconsin Republican Jim Sensenbrenner says the Supreme Court put a knife in the back of the civil right act.  He is apparently accusing his fellow Republicans and Wisconsin lawmakers of discriminating in voting laws.  What exact law is the Halloween Horror Sensenbrenner referring to as an example of voting discrimination? The Wisconsin Photo ID law? Or the Wisconsin redistricting law drawn to protect his seat?  The reverse engineering of the outdated formula which Sensenbrenner lazily re-adopted in the 2005-2006 reauthorization hearings is not a constitutional way to serve as a safeguard against discrimination. As Chairman of the House Judiciary, Sensenbrenner had his chance to lead and blew it. 

“Voter discrimination still exists, and our progress toward equality should not be mistaken for a victory,” he added. “There is at least one Republican, and you’ll find out in the future a lot more, that is committing to putting life in this most important civil rights act that got a stab in the back from the Supreme Court,” he said.

When everything else is unpopular, Voter ID remains popular.

Link.

Columbus Dispatch reports: A Grove City woman who voted twice in the 2010 general election has been placed on probation.
Marian Wilson, 48, of Kendall Place, pleaded guilty in March to a misdemeanor count of
illegal voting.
Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Stephen L. McIntosh placed her on probation for one year.
The judge said he would send her to jail for 180 days if she violates probation.
Investigators said she submitted two absentee ballots — one under the name Marian Wilson and
the other as Marian Toles.
Elections officials working to clean up voter-registration rolls uncovered the irregularities
last year.

The target date is the primary election to be held in June 2014.  Link to Commercial Appeal – subscription for full story.

Showing what can be done when a Democrat elected official is not beholden to the voter fraud deniers in academia and the non-profit sector.  Town Hall.

I read this amusing and incomplete Holder line at an MSNBC story on the DOJ’s Texas Voter ID litigation:

“Thanks to the hard work of our Civil Rights Division, we are continuing to refine and re-focus current enforcement efforts across the country,” he said. “And while the suits we’ve filed in Texas mark the first voting rights enforcement actions the Justice Department has taken since the Supreme Court ruling, they will not be the last.”

Really?  If the Attorney General was being wholly forthright, he would have noted:

And while the suits we’ve filed in Texas mark the first voting rights enforcement actions the Justice Department has taken since MARCH 2009!

March 2009 is when the Justice Department filed the last Section 2 case.  For more, read “Wade Henderson, Cat Got Your Tongue?”

No matter.  MSNBC isn’t in the business of rooting out half-truths from the Justice Department.  That task recently has fallen to United States District Court Judge Kurt Englehardt.