The Arkansas Senate has approved legislation that would create a
“voter integrity” unit within the secretary of state’s office to
investigate complaints of election fraud.
By a 30-5 vote, the Senate approved the measure by
Republican Sen. Bryan King of Green Forest that would set up a
four-person unit among existing staff in the secretary of state’s
office.

More at the Link.

North Carolina House Republicans said Thursday their proposal to
require voters to show photo identification to cast ballots would be
phased in over three years and takes into account the apprehensions of
older adults, the disabled and the poor.

GOP legislators, holding
a news conference to unveil details of a bill introduced later in the
day, said the legislation’s details reflected in part what they heard at
a public hearing last month and from advocacy groups. link.

Budget cuts at Elections Canada have pushed a pilot project on Internet voting off the agenda indefinitely.The body that runs Canada’s federal voting had hoped to introduce online voting for byelections held in 2013…  More at Canada.com

The Virginia Pilot reports: A grand jury indicted six people Thursday on allegations that they gave false statements when registering to vote.  The cases involve convicted felons who tried to register to vote,
said Bill Prince, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office. The Virginia
State Board of Elections launched the investigation, which was handled
by Virginia State Police, he said.

This account at Yahoo News almost gets it right.  However, it does reveal the chaos that Democrats will falsely generate to try to keep one of their voting schemes in place.  Despite the general lack of integrity to the process of same day registration and voting, Democrats normally ignore those warnings and support the measure because their activists push for it and they believe it marginally helps them at the ballot box.  Montana gives us a snapshot of the issue:

Over loud objections from Democrats, Montana‘s Republican-controlled Senate on Friday voted to put proposals on the 2014 ballot that would tighten voter registration and restrict the rights of third parties to compete in general elections.The measures, which are expected to be approved by the Republican-majority House, do not need approval from the Democratic governor. They would go before Montana voters in November of next year. Democrats tried to stall action on the bills through a
rarely used parliamentary procedure, demanding that the vote be delayed
until a missing Democratic senator was found and brought into the
chamber.

Chaos reigned as Democrats unveiled their true progressive nature.  Montana Democrats purposefully lied to the citizens of Montana and leadership of the Montana Senate that one of their senators was missing, whereabouts unknown, to avoid a vote of the legally constituted legislature of Montana.  In furtherance of the lie, they screamed, they voiced their loud objections, they pounded their desks, they talked over recognized speakers, and they demanded to be heard; all to further the lie and charade.  According to this account, their missing Senator wasn’t looking for a cup of coffee, he was purposefully closeted.

Sen. Shannon Augare, D-Browning, left the Capitol on Friday in order to
set the stage for a “call of the Senate” motion, a parliamentary
procedure that allows a minority body to call on a missing member before
business can resume. Sources say Augare may have headed to Browning.
Augare’s disappearance was designed to force a stop to all business in
the Senate on a critical deadline day for bills proposing referendums.

Meet the lying and missing state senator.

A Republican called it “disgraceful.”  The Democrat Governor, feigning a
lack of knowledge, called the “tone” worse than DC.  Right on both counts.  One account predicted that as a result of the falsely generated chaos by Montana Democrats, there will be a unified Republican Party
in the closing weeks of the legislature.  The rest of the country should take notes for future reference on the motivations and tactics of Democrats on voting issues.

The Virginia attorney general’s office is investigating “several possible cases of duplicate voting” after comparing the commonwealth’s registration rolls against voter rolls in 21 other states via the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, which Virginia joined in 2012.

Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday vowed to aggressively enforce
federal voting rights laws no matter what the Supreme Court decides this
year about ending a controversial part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.  More at CNN. 

If the court strikes down Section 5, it won’t stop the enforcement of voting rights.  Such a decision would only remove the most constitutionally suspect provision of the statute.

House Republicans unveiled their long-awaited voter ID bill Thursday,
offering a less restrictive version than the measure that was vetoed by
Democratic Gov. Bev. Perdue two years ago.  Link to story.

The Republican Party said at a news conference that Operation Vote
Arkansas would include efforts to educate voters on the new
requirements, provide transportation for those needing help obtaining
identification and revamp the party’s website with additional voting
information.

Republican Party of Arkansas Chairman Doyle Webb said he would also
travel the state to spread word of the new law and raise awareness.   Link to ArkansasOnline.com.

Newsobserver.com reports: Georgia’s top election official said Wednesday that a photo ID bill
did not discourage voter participation or result in lower participation
among African-Americans in his state.  Brian Kemp, Georgia’s
secretary of state, expressed skepticism about warnings that if North
Carolina adopted a photo ID requirement, it would disenfranchise large
numbers of voters.  Since Georgia adopted its requirement that
voters show a photo ID at the polls in 2007, only 29,611 photo IDs had
been issued by the state of Georgia to voters lacking them.