Pioneer Press editorial on Voter ID.

“Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has changed the Legislature’s voter ID amendment title, “Photo identification required for voting, ” into the following: “Changes to in-person & absentee voting & voter registration; provisional ballots.” Ritchie, who is well read and well spoken, clearly had to go deep into the Orwellian playbook to come up with that one. But what explains this bizarre formulation that obviously seeks to obscure the initiative and confuse the voter? One of the best explanations we’ve heard is that Ritchie hopes to so confuse the voters that they simply throw up their hands and skip this ballot item altogether. Remember, by law in Minnesota, a nonvote on a constitutional amendment question has the same effect as a “no” vote.

The problem for the anti-ID group is that even in this solidly blue state, voter ID is a very popular concept. “

Pioneer Press editorial on Voter ID.

“Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has changed the Legislature’s voter ID amendment title, “Photo identification required for voting, ” into the following: “Changes to in-person & absentee voting & voter registration; provisional ballots.” Ritchie, who is well read and well spoken, clearly had to go deep into the Orwellian playbook to come up with that one. But what explains this bizarre formulation that obviously seeks to obscure the initiative and confuse the voter? One of the best explanations we’ve heard is that Ritchie hopes to so confuse the voters that they simply throw up their hands and skip this ballot item altogether. Remember, by law in Minnesota, a nonvote on a constitutional amendment question has the same effect as a “no” vote.

The problem for the anti-ID group is that even in this solidly blue state, voter ID is a very popular concept. “

Some races are included, but not all.

Some races are included, but not all.

John Fund at National Review:

“Eric Holder is scheduled to land in Guam today, the first U.S. attorney general ever to visit the U.S. territory, which serves as a center of U.S. military power in the Western Pacific. But the Associated Press reports that after meeting with local officials, Holder will not take any questions from journalists “because his tight schedule doesn’t give him time for a press conference.”

That may be, but the curious omission also spares Holder from any questions about why his department has refused to intervene in or comment on an important court case involving U.S. citizens who are being barred from voting on the island — a far more serious matter than the mainland voter-ID laws decried by Holder as the equivalent of “poll taxes.”

John Fund at National Review:

“Eric Holder is scheduled to land in Guam today, the first U.S. attorney general ever to visit the U.S. territory, which serves as a center of U.S. military power in the Western Pacific. But the Associated Press reports that after meeting with local officials, Holder will not take any questions from journalists “because his tight schedule doesn’t give him time for a press conference.”

That may be, but the curious omission also spares Holder from any questions about why his department has refused to intervene in or comment on an important court case involving U.S. citizens who are being barred from voting on the island — a far more serious matter than the mainland voter-ID laws decried by Holder as the equivalent of “poll taxes.”

The Los Angeles Times says a law requiring a photo ID to vote attacks a key achievement of the civil rights era and that the hard legal truth is that photo ID law is a poll tax.  Hard legal truth.  Incredulous.

Not so says the Supreme Court, the liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform.   Add to that list:  The Department of Justice and the federal courts, who were very clear that the photo ID law in Georgia was not a poll tax.

But the Los Angeles Times find otherwise.

The Los Angeles Times says a law requiring a photo ID to vote attacks a key achievement of the civil rights era and that the hard legal truth is that photo ID law is a poll tax.  Hard legal truth.  Incredulous.

Not so says the Supreme Court, the liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform.   Add to that list:  The Department of Justice and the federal courts, who were very clear that the photo ID law in Georgia was not a poll tax.

But the Los Angeles Times find otherwise.

 “The Disclose Act would make this and any future administration’s
ability to punish and intimidate its political enemies even easier,”
wrote McConnell, a longtime opponent of campaign finance laws.  Link. 

On Monday there will be a forced vote in the Senate as the Democrats desperately seek to harass their opponents and hinder the placement of free speech political advertising on the air.  It’s not very often your political opponent tells you that they are about to grab your neck before they actually attempt to strangle you. 

 “The Disclose Act would make this and any future administration’s
ability to punish and intimidate its political enemies even easier,”
wrote McConnell, a longtime opponent of campaign finance laws.  Link. 

On Monday there will be a forced vote in the Senate as the Democrats desperately seek to harass their opponents and hinder the placement of free speech political advertising on the air.  It’s not very often your political opponent tells you that they are about to grab your neck before they actually attempt to strangle you.