Out of West Virginia, West Virginia’s elections chief is enlisting allies to fight legislation that would require voters to show photo identification. Secretary of State Natalie Tennant unveiled the Voting Rights Protection Coalition on Monday at her Capitol office.  The group is targeting voter ID.

Whoa…. someone has forgotten about those voter fraud claims in 2010 that plagued West Virgina and started her very voter protection group out of her office.  Observers could have seen this coming with this headline earlier in the month:  Labor protest voter ID proposal. 

When it serves their own interest in the integrity of their elections, Unions have recognized the importance of photo ID.

 “Clerks report few problems at polls”

I will be speaking at the University of Mississippi Law School on Monday at noon.  The topic includes Shelby v. Holder and Section 5 as well as the reveleations in the Inspector General’s report.

“There are a lot of people who are just concerned with the potential risk of fraud,” explains North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis, and the state’s popular voter ID proposal would make a majority of North Carolinians “more comfortable and more confident when they go to the polls.” 

Senator Charles Grassely is asking the same question posed by this blog: Why do the people who engaged in bad behavior as documented by the Inspector General’s report still have jobs?  The Washington Times:

“A senior Republican in Congress said Wednesday that he wants to know why Justice Department employees whose “hostile, racist and inappropriate behavior” was documented in a new report — including one who admitted lying to the department’s office of inspector general — are still employed.”

It’s a question we will be asking along with Congress over the next few months.

Link.

The Voting Section isn’t out of the woods yet.  The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee is coming after the Voting Section.

Item one for Chairman Goodlatte should be Tom Perez’s opposition to implementing the hiring changes suggested by the Inspector General.  I have details about the suggestions, the absurdity of the excuses offered by certain DOJ officials, and Perez’s opposition to the recommended changes here.

A well written and slicing editorial.

Two photos from my day at CPAC – one being interviewed by Allen West and the other on NRA news with Grover Norquist and “Rooster.”