In a series of posts extracting information from the Washington Post article “27 Other Things the North Carolina Voting Law Changes” and other Republican reforms overturning decades of Democrats setting the rules in the Tar Heel state. All the left wing groups liked the fact that ballot order was rigged towards Democrats.  No protests or sit-in’s, no name-calling or Jim Crow exasperation, and certainly no complaining that this disadvantaged Republicans, which studies show it did. Silence, hypocritical silence.

Ballot order is no longer a rigged game. Countless
studies show the candidate who’s listed first in a given race gets some
small advantage from voters who just check a box instead of making an
informed decision (And by countless, we really mean too many to link to
here; just Google “Ballot Order Study” and start reading). Previous
North Carolina law mandated that the party with the highest number of
registered voters statewide got their candidates mentioned first; there
are 2,766,467 registered Democrats and 1,989,597 registered Republicans
in the state, meaning Democratic names always come first. Section 31.1
of the new law puts the name of the candidate who shares a party with
the governor on top. That means Republicans will show up at the top of
the ballot in 2014, but that Democrats will the next time they elect a
governor.

Link.

The Left believes the concern over voter fraud is simply paranoia.  However, as this local Massachusetts ABC affiliate reports, voter fraud allegations and resulting guilty pleas is direct evidence that political operatives (and often the politicians themselves) will do their best to manipulate and defraud the process.  Denial of these vulnerabilities in our system is a green light to stolen elections.

The wife of former East Longmeadow selectman Enrico ‘Jack’ Villamaino
has pleaded guilty to charges related to a voter fraud scheme last
year.

Hampden County District Attorney Mark Mastroianni says that a
Superior Court Judge imposed a guilty finding against Courtney Llewellyn
after she pleaded guilty to a charge of interfering with election
officials, which is a misdemeanor.

Four felony charges against Llewellyn – including perjury and forgery – were “continued without a finding,” Mastrioanni adds.

Prosecutors say in 2012, Llewellyn and Jack Villamaino, who was
running for a state representative seat at the time, changed the party
affiliations for about 280 East Longmeadow voters.

About a month after those changes were made, Mastroianni says that there
was an almost “name-for-name match” for those people who had their
enrollment changed from ‘Democrat’ to ‘Unenrolled.’

The racial approach to legal issues by Attorney General Holder and the Department of Justice doesn’t seem to be improving race relations.  Rasmussen Reports Poll. 

Link to story.

Flashback to 2012 at Brietbart: This isn’t necessarily evidence of vote theft. It could be a massively
failed voter registration system, although it is notable that the
largest number of these voters just happen to be Democrats. But what
ever is the case, it is highly unlikely to have this many centenarian
voters still able to get out of their wheelchairs or retirement homes
and have a run down to the polling place. Something certainly seems
amiss in North Carolina.

What are the implications of Australia’s compulsory voting system? How are the main parties trying to secure voters’ support? Will opposition leader Tony Abbott’s “suppository” gaffe come back to haunt him?  Link to more

In a 26-page opinion issued today, a San Antonio federal court ruled there was no basis to block the use of the 2013 redistricting maps in upcoming elections, and that the redistricting maps passed by the Texas Legislature in the special session should be used for the 2014 elections.

 Investors Bus. Daily.

Since you can’t find this election law news roundup elsewhere, links to coverage of the appeal brief in the 9th Circuit on election law issues and civil rights statutes:

Pacific News Center: Appeal Asks 9th Circuit to “Strike Down” Part of Status Plebiscite Law Arguing Its “Racially Discriminatory”

Pacific Daily News: Resident Takes Plebiscite Case to 9th Circuit

Updated: Appeal Asks 9th Circuit to “Strike Down” Part of Status Plebiscite Law Arguing Its “Racially Discriminatory”