Last night I participated in a True the Vote Tele-Town Hall with South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.  He said they expect a decision shortly in the South Carolina Voter ID case and that he is “guardedly optimistic” the law will be approved by the federal court.

He should be.

South Carolina’s law has a fail safe voting mechanism for anyone who doesn’t have photo ID. Simply, anyone who had a hardship in getting an ID is still allowed to vote.

A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale ruled today that there’s no time
limit for the state to push for the removal of voters who were never
supposed to be registered, and an effort to clean the rolls of
non-citizens can go forward.

Judge William
Zloch ruled that Secretary of State Ken Detzner is within the law in
seeking the removal of voters from the rolls who were never supposed to
be there to begin with – even this close to an election.

Zloch
said the plaintiffs, who argued that federal law prevents such purges
within 90 days of an election, failed to show that their ability to vote
would be harmed by the effort.

…  “We’re very pleased another federal court has ruled that Florida’s
efforts to remove non-citizens from the voter rolls are lawful and in
the best interest of Florida voters,” Detzner said in a statement
following Zloch’s ruling. “Ensuring ineligible voters can’t cast a
ballot is a fundamental aspect of conducting fair elections.”

The link to the full story is here.  This is a big win for the State of Florida.

 Link on Fox.

Clarion-Ledger.com.  The racial identity of registered Mississippi voters is among the
requested information, but state Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann
said Mississippi doesn’t collect that information during the registration process. 

DoJ requests for the racial identity of all Mississippi voters, information that Mississippi doesn’t requests of its voters during the registration process.  Of course, DoJ has known all along that Mississippi doesn’t ask for or retain this data but they demand it anyway.  Why?  To delay and obstruct implementation of the law until after the election and set up a burden which they can point to later and say… “Mississippi didn’t meet its burden.”  Just add another front to the voter ID wars.

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At least in Miami and many counties in Florida, you will need additional early voting hours to simply read the ballot.

For many, this will be more complicated than doing your taxes.

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The Department of Defense is begining to feel the heat from many days of bad national press about sorry military voting numbers.  Drudge moves the conversation. Half of the questions at the daily briefing this week involved the sorry numbers.  The DOD press   The central problem is that FVAP blew many millions of dollars without opening voter offices on all military installations as required by federal law.  Less than half are operational. Military recruitment offices still are failing to follow federal law.

The DOD’s response is Twitter and Facebook, something generating laughs in some Congressional offices.

Like bureaucracies will, they are shooting the messenger bearing bad news.  But no amount of DOD counter-spin can overcome the fact that less than half of military installations have voting offices.  No spin can overcome the fact that DOD is failing to comply with Motor Voter regarding recruitment offices.  The “quite old” data was updated this week.  Here is some typical bureaucrat doublespeak:

“The Department has assisted more than 500,000 service members in the first six months of this year alone,” Little added.

Ah ha! That must mean the data showing only 50,000 requests for ballots must be wrong.  No, not really.  The 500k number means any contact, as Little had to reveal on follow up:

“though he acknowledged that the figure reflects “a range of services we’ve provided,” not just absentee ballot requests.”

Meanwhile, reporters are asking questions about particular partisans who have been hired by FVAP.  Stay tuned.

I am speaking at Boston College Law School at 12:30 Thursday on voter fraud and dead voters.  I am scheduled to appear on Hannity on Fox Friday, though details to follow later.

Election Journal has more.

“Charges of voter suppression are flying in Pasco County, Florida. According to the County Supervisor Brian E. Corley, his office is being overwhelmed with hundreds of voters alerted by robo-calls from Organizing for America that early voting started today. OFA is the re-election organization for President Barack Obama. Early voting does not begin until Oct. 27. Some voters have even begun showing up at the office, only to be turned away.”

Of course this is not voter “suppression.”  If the Obama campaign makes robocalls giving people the wrong date of the election, that isn’t illegal.  There is no federal law violated when you give someone the wrong election date.