“Obama vs. Voter ID”

For years, President Obama and black civil rights leaders have been telling the nation that voter ID laws are being pushed by racist Republicans who want to disenfranchise blacks. “The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting Rights Act was passed in to law nearly five decades ago,”   Wall Street Journal.


This assertion despite the fact that photo ID reform was a recommendation of the Commission on Federal Election Reform led by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker and other leading professionals in electoral reform.  According to our President, the idea of uniform photo ID laws across the country is the now biggest threats to the enfranchise that was hatched by a Presidential Commission designed to resolve the issues arising from the 2000 Presidential Election.  Obama sides with Alfonso Sharpton and ignores the reasonable recommendations of the professionals. 
Who is the demagogue and the reactionary on voter ID?   

Cantor Wipeout May Doom Sensenbrenner Bill

Hill sources are telling me Cantor’s wipeout means Jim Sensenbrenner’s bill is dead.  The entire mood has changed in the space of an hour.  The Tea Party is King of the Hill.

My take at PJ Media:


Now, other Republicans who might have flirted with the idea of moving a bill to give Eric Holder renewed power over state elections can gaze at Cantor’s wipeout.  Who would dare, now?  Republicans who want to become Speaker in the future best not offend delegations from Texas, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina.


The Tea Party means business.  They think the country is worth fighting for.  They aren’t beyond mailing every single donor to every single GOP Congressman who would support Sensenbrenner’s bill.  The Tea Party is perfectly willing to send every single donor to every single sponsor of Sensenbrenner’s bill a do-it-yourself ask-for-your-money-back kit.  This isn’t 1995, and the folks who just beat Cantor are willing to do what it takes to win other battles.



“House Majority Leader Cantor’s loss appears to be unprecedented”

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost the GOP Virginia primary to a Tea Party-backed challenger Tuesday night in a stunning, apparently unprecedented upset. According to an analysis by Fox News, it appears Cantor is the first sitting House majority leader to ever lose a primary. However, other congressional leaders have been unseated by a primary challenger.
Link to story at Fox News.

Sensenbrenner Bill Covered at Breitbart

“National conservative leaders—including former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese and former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell—have sent Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), who is the House majority leader, a letter strongly opposing this legislation and asking for a meeting to discuss it. They express serious concern regarding Cantor’s not making clear whether he supports or opposes the bill, saying, “your ambiguity on a bill that is so clearly and deeply flawed is troubling to say the least.”

Link

MA man guilty of multiple voter fraud counts – in NH


Another “irrational” fraudster commits “nonexistent” voter fraud, this time across state lines:


“A Massachusetts man guilty of voter fraud for casting ballots in the first-in-the-nation primary and presidential elections wanted to vote in New Hampshire because he didn’t believe his vote would matter in the Bay State, where he has lived for more than 20 years, according to a prosecutor.”



Lorin C. Schneider Jr. pleaded guilty to “one felony and two misdemeanor charges of wrongful voting in violation of state law.”  Schneider voted in New Hampshire’s 2008 and 2012 presidential elections “and also voted there in the 2012 presidential primary election, when he took a Democratic ballot.”


 


“He was registered as a Democrat,” but authorities declined to speculate who Schneider voted for.




WSJ: Obama vs. Voter ID

Jason Riley at the Wall Street Journal:

Yet most Americans, including most black Americans, don’t seem to share the president’s sentiment. According to a new poll from Fox News, support for voter ID laws is quite strong and transcends gender, party and even race. Seventy percent of respondents—including 55 percent of Democrats, 91 percent of Republicans, 66 percent of independents, 70 percent of men, 71 percent of women, 75 percent of whites and, yes, 51 percent of blacks—expressed support for laws that require voters to show a valid form of state- or federally-issued photo identification to prove U.S. citizenship before being allowed to vote.

Obama’s Enforcer Sales Widget

I’ve added a sales widget over on the left side of the page to track the sales of the new John Fund / Hans von Spakovksy book Obama’s Enforcer which releases today.  The pair were on Fox and Friends this morning and the book will be featured tonight on the Sean Hannity show on Fox.  The book covers election law and malfeasance by DOJ Voting Section employees.  Look for it in the bestseller listing over the next few weeks.  My review of the book is here.

Four other election related books have been tracked by the sales widget for the last few years.