At PoliticsPA and Philly.com, a discussion of protections against voter fraud.  

“A Pennsylvania Department of State analysis shows 99 percent of eligible voters currently have acceptable photo IDs,” she wrote, “and proposals under discussion will likely expand the list of photo IDs that can be used. PennDot will supply a free ID for those who need one, so the greatest possible cost to taxpayers is slightly more than $1 million, a small price to ensure the validity of each vote.”

At the link.  With over 120,000 active duty military personnel or 29% of the military never having received their requested absentee ballot to vote, this New York Daily News headline has to be the most misleading of the season. 

At JSOnline, the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin sued the state Thursday in an attempt to block a new requirement that voters show photo identification at the polls.

The suit argues the state constitution allows the Legislature to exclude felons and the incompetent from voting, but cannot restrict others from voting. The new photo ID law creates a new class of people who cannot vote – those without ID – and thus violates the state constitution, the suit argues.

The case will be heard by Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess.

Republicans who control state government approved the photo ID requirement in May, after trying to do so for more than a decade. It is scheduled to take effect in February.

Republicans argue the measure would discourage voter fraud and give the public more faith in elections. Democrats counter that there are no cases of voter impersonation and that the law will make it harder for minorities and the elderly to vote.

In Tennessee, the Knox news reports on efforts by Election Coordinator and AARP to hold Q&A sessions on the new voter ID law.  Meanwhile Democratic lawmakers file measure to repeal it.

At Politico, an astonishing 120,000 active duty military personnel never received their requested absentee ballots in the 2010 election, a new report shows.

This oversight meant that 29 percent of active duty military voters didn’t get their absentee ballot, up from 16 percent in 2008, according to the study by the Federal Voting Assistance Program.  

Palm Beach Post reports:

TALLAHASSEE — A federal judge in Miami has thrown out a lawsuit against Gov. Rick Scott and his administration over the state’s new elections laws.

U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore ruled that the ACLU, which filed the lawsuit, lacked standing to sue and that it’s too early to rule on whether the new law is unconstitutional.  Scott applauded the decision. “I have always been confident that our elections have been conducted fairly and meet every legal requirement. Today’s decision only confirms that opinion. As we draw nearer to nationally significant elections in 2012, I will continue to ensure the integrity and fairness of Florida elections,” Scott said in a statement.

and this:

Last week, Browning asked the Washington judges to expedite their review of the elections laws and challenged the constitutionality of the “preclearance” requirement.  If the ACLU continues to believe as we do that Florida’s 67 counties should implement election law at the same time, they should support our amended complaint in the federal district court in Washington, D.C., that the coverage formula subjecting five of the state’s counties to preclearance must be declared unconstitutional and removed from law,” Browning said in a statement issued after Moore’s Tuesday ruling.

At the Montgomery Advertiser, former Congressman Artur Davis offers his confession of using race to whip up opposition to voter ID and the fact that the fraud of reverse voter suppression has resulted in the changing the results of close elections.  Not such a myth is it?

“I’ve changed my mind on voter ID laws — I think Alabama did the right thing in passing one — and I wish I had gotten it right when I was in political office.

When I was a congressman, I took the path of least resistance on this subject for an African American politician. Without any evidence to back it up, I lapsed into the rhetoric of various partisans and activists who contend that requiring photo identification to vote is a suppression tactic aimed at thwarting black voter participation

The truth is that the most aggressive contemporary voter suppression in the African American community, at least in Alabama, is the wholesale manufacture of ballots, at the polls and absentee, in parts of the Black Belt.

Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights — that’s suppression by any light. If you doubt it exists, I don’t; I’ve heard the peddlers of these ballots brag about it, I’ve been asked to provide the funds for it, and I am confident it has changed at least a few close local election results.

The activities in Alabama are covered in detail in the book Injustice (link on <—– left of page). The Department of Justice turned a blind eye to this voter fraud.

I will be live and in studio talking about my book Injustice on WTKK-FM, Boston’s Talk, with Michael Graham from 4:45 to 5:15 today.

I’ve gotten some emails asking if I will be in a given place.  I try to post my radio and speaking schedule, but do not always have the opportunity to put up every single radio appearance. 

Over the next few weeks, I will be speaking in a number of cities.  I will try to post details as the events approach.  This week I will be in Houston (TX), Springfield (Mass.) and Fresno (CA).  Next week I will be in New York City, Pittsburgh (PA) and Annapolis (MD).  Over the next few weeks, I will be in Lincoln (NE), Minneapolis (MN), New Orleans (LA), and West Palm Beach (FL).