The Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday shows 66 percent of 701 registered voters favor the law. Thirty-two percent oppose it.

link here.

New S.C. voters would have to show proof of their U.S. citizenship, under a bill that advanced at the State House Thursday.

A Senate subcommittee signed off on the measure requiring South Carolinians registering to vote to present a driver’s license, birth certificate, passport or tribal verification when registering to vote.

Currently, new voters do not have to show any proof of U.S. citizenship. They attest to their citizenship when filling out paperwork to become a voter.

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Jack Park at the American Spectator discusses the Texas redistricting opinion and DOJ:

When Texas sought preclearance from the court in Washington, D.C., USDOJ balked, and it was joined by Democratic-leaning individuals and groups. USDOJ was OK with the state senate plan, but the interveners weren’t. Moreover, USDOJ and the interveners had specific objections to different districts, and both suggested that the plans were the product of discriminatory motives. Now, Texas has to go through a trial to prove that its plans don’t have the purpose or effect of “denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color.”

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Tom Fitton at BigGovernment has more.

“On February 23, 2011, Rogers wrote to Associate Deputy Attorney General Robert Weiner, asking him to “make some headway with Attorney General [Eric] Holder in enforcing Section 7 of the NVRA.” The email notes that the DOJ had not yet filed any Section 7 lawsuits, which Rogers dubbed “deeply disappointing.” The first such DOJ lawsuit (against Rhode Island) was filed on March 18, 2011, less than one month later. Of particular note, is Rogers’ comment that “We have received oral assurances from [Assistant Attorney General Thomas] Perez on several occasions that enforcement action was imminent,” suggesting that Rogers was privy to internal discussions inside the DOJ regarding pending legal action.”

Perhaps Louisiana and other states sued under Section 7 of NVRA will now seek more documents of this nature in discovery.

At the link.  The DC court tries to wrap up its work to have an impact on the San Antonio Court.  What a dance this has become between the two courts.  It works wonders when the Supreme Court lights a fire under your….

This article has an update on the case where two of the Defendants, an Elections Commissioner
and a Troy City Councilman, had been
indicted on 116 counts of allegedly forging or being in possession of
forged absentee ballots and/or ballot envelopes.

So what is the status of the case.

A jury was seated last week.

Former City
Councilman Michael LoPorto and Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough
are accused of forging absentee ballots to show more support for the
Working Families party primary back in September 2009.

Four other people have already pleaded guilty in this case.

Two others have pleaded not guilty

Six individuals are suspected of voter fraud in the 2010 election, according to Colorado Secretary of State’s Office.

Based on a comparison of voting records between Kansas
and Colorado, the individuals appear to have cast ballots in both
states. The information has been turned over to the FBI for
investigation.

“Voter fraud undermines our electoral system,” Colorado Secretary of
State Scott Gessler said in a statement Monday. “I will continue to be
vigilant and undertake these kinds of anti-fraud measures. These state
crosschecks are an important component in ensuring the integrity of our
election process.”

Full Story here

Another example of crying wolf by racial name-calling.  Back in December, a coalition of NAACP, Hispanic and Union activists all predictably sued, claiming that Republican lawmakers had nefariously designed racially-charged plans that showed a pattern of discrimination and disenfranchised minorities.

It is hard to remember that Michigan is under Section 5.  No, it really is.

Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler told The Daily Caller that the federal Motor Voter law was set up to “ensure controversy” and that the Obama administration is using it “to advance a political agenda.”

“I think it’s time for someone in the states to stand up against this foolishness coming out of Washington D.C.,” he said.

Schedler’s concerns echo those of a former Justice Department civil rights lawyer who recently told a Tulane Law School audience that the Obama administration is selectively choosing which parts of the National Voter Registration Act to enforce, in order to expand the voter rolls in every way possible.

… In his book “Injustice,” Adams described how Obama’s top DOJ appointees scuttled Section 8 investigations that could have limited the opportunity for fraudulent voting.

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes made it clear during a “brown bag” meeting in November 2009, he wrote, that the agency had “no interest in enforcing that provision of the law” since it was not related to boosting voter turnout.

Christopher Coates, the former chief of the Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section, testified in September 2010 before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, saying that there were eight U.S. states with more voter names listed on some counties’ registration forms than there were citizens of eligible voting age. This, he said, put those states out of compliance with Section 8 requirements.

Full story at DailyCaller.com