The EAC has become a “Zombie Agency”


The commission established to address problems after the 2000 presidential contest is a “zombie agency” that should be dismantled, a GOP lawmaker said Friday. Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.), chairman of a House subcommittee on elections, said the resignation of the last two members of the Election Assistance Commission had underlined his point that it is an obsolete agency and a waste of taxpayer money. “It is a zombie agency, lumbering forward lifelessly devouring taxpayer dollars,” said Harper, who has long called for the elimination of an agency created after the disputed election in which Republican George Bush defeated Vice President Al Gore.  Read the whole story at the Hill.

“The EAC, an obsolete agency that has long outlived its purpose, now has no commissioners, no executive director and no general counsel,” Harper added


Union elections require a photo ID to vote

HT to John Romano at “Yes, But, However!” at the link.   He asks the perplexing question of why do Democrats so fear voter ID? Apparently even unions don’t see the requirement of a photo ID as too burdensome.

A picture is worth a thousand words. According to OpenSecrets.org unions belonging to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) have donated over $26 million to Democratic candidates and causes since 1990. During that same period, the union gave a paltry $272,311 to the Republican Party.

As you’ll note in the photo below the union requires its own members to produce a photo ID in order to vote. The photo shows a union worker voting earlier today on whether to sanction a new four-year contract with Boeing, clearly the union understands the need for a picture ID in order to help guarantee a clean election:



In America, one needs an ID to vote in a union election, buy liquor, drive a car, board an airplane, use a credit card and a slew of other things in our society. Yet, the Democratic party refuses to back the idea of requiring an ID to vote in state and federal elections under any circumstances. A sensible voter ID law that respects the rights of the poor, elderly, and minorities is a great idea. What are Democrats afraid of? You connect the dots.

Republican Scrooges giving out lumps of coal

That’s the opinion piece by Marlin Schneider in the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune. Here

Thank God, the rhetoric is finally toning down in Wisconsin.  One had wondered if the rhetoric could get any worse than accusing supporters of photo ID of suppressing the vote with racist Jim Crow laws or poll taxes.  This rhetoric is so much more adult.  Santa apparently won’t be able to come down the chimney without his photo id.   

Florida House redistricting maps would add Hispanic seats

An Orlando Sentinel article on Florida House redistricting. Here.

All five of the draft districts for the 120-member House would create a Hispanic-majority district in the Kissimmee area and another centered around the Palm Beach County city of Palm Springs. And four of the five plans would draw a district at least 40-percent black around the city of Eatonville.

Unlike the Senate – which Tuesday advanced single congressional and Senate-district maps unveiled last week — the House opted to float essentially a buffet menu of options. And while a quick analysis indicated they would make some Republican-leaning seats safer, they’d also likely elect a few more Democrats.

ACORN leftovers visiting Obama White House

the tease.

Leaders of the resurrected radical group ACORN are lobbying the Obama administration in what appears to be a concerted effort to game the electoral system to help Democrats, new evidence suggests. At least five Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now leaders have visited the White House this year alone. One of those ACORN officials has been involved in vetting Department of Justice hires who may help to enforce the voter fraud-enabling National Voting Rights Act (NVRA), also known as the Motor-Voter law.


here is the rest of the story @ American Spectator.

Look who backs voter ID – a comparison of South Carolina and Rhode Island

The Post and Courier has a story wondering why Rhode Island Democrats would support a photo ID bill if it was designed to mimimize Democratic votes.

South Carolina and Rhode Island are both among the original 13 states that signed the Declaration of Independence. Both are on the Atlantic Coast. And both have single-party-dominated legislatures that this year passed laws requiring voters to provide photo identification.

But the S.C. General Assembly is run by Republicans, while the R.I. General Assembly is run by Democrats.

Yet:

Five months ago in Rhode Island, Democratic Rep. Jon Brien made this convincing, bipartisan pitch for his state’s voter ID law:

“I think that party leaders have tried to make this a Republican versus Democrat issue. It’s not. It’s simply a good government issue.”

And reasonably verifying a voter’s identity simply makes sense.

Full story at the link