League of Women Voters Opposes Voter Roll Maintenance

Its unfortunate that groups like the LWV and the NAACP consistently oppose election integrity, no matter what the circumstances.  Citizens in North Carolina found dozens of questionable registrations and election officials are following the statutory process to deal with them.  Naturally, these groups oppose following the law to rid the rolls of deadwood.

“Buncombe County elections officials on Thursday will consider removing 95 inactive voters from the roll following challenges to the registrations.


The voters may stay on the roll if they show up at the meeting or send a representative with an affidavit stating they still live in the county.


The 95 challenges are what’s left of a larger group of complaints brought by the Asheville Tea Party and the Raleigh-based Voter Integrity Project…


The registrations were tied to voters the groups say no longer live at the addresses they gave the elections office.”

DOJ lawyers threaten to monitor and preempt state elections across the country

Interesting way to ask for more money.  What happened to all the money set aside for Section 5 review that has been freed up?

The Justice Department, no longer responsible for vetting election procedures in states with a history of racial discrimination, instead plans to proactively search the entire country for voting rights violations.   Its new focus is the result of a June 2013 Supreme Court decision dismantling a Voting Rights Act provision that had required all or part of 15 states to get “pre-clearance” from Justice officials or a federal court before making any changes to their election procedures.  Now, the department says, it will be more proactive in protecting minority voters.

“The voting section’s work will shift to greater affirmative efforts to detect and investigate voting practices that violate federal law, to more affirmative litigation to enjoin such practices, and to additional monitoring of elections throughout the country each year,” according to the agency’s fiscal 2015 budget documents sent to Congress last week.

“Report finds states cutting wait times for voters”

USA Today reports on the recent Pew Report on state performance in election administration:


Voters across the country waited less time in line to cast their ballots in 2012 than in 2008, a sign that states were doing a better job at running elections, says a report released Tuesday by the Pew Charitable Trust’s Election Initiatives.

…Average wait time at polls inched down about three minutes, from more than 14 minutes in 2008 to just over 11 minutes in 2012, according to Pew’s Elections Performance Index. South Carolina, which had waits of more than an hour in 2008, cut its time to about 25 minutes. Florida’s waiting time was the worst, and at 45 minutes it was far longer than the 29 minutes voters waited in 2008.

“Breyer’s dangerous dissent in McCutcheon”

David Bernstein provides a warning to America of Justice Breyer’s dangerous thinking.



Not surprisingly, then, Breyer is the Justice who is least inclined to protect freedom of speech in a variety of contexts.   And it’s troubling that his three liberal colleagues joined his opinion today. Josh Blackman and I wrote three years ago, “Breyer’s apparent ascendance as doyen of the Court’s liberal wing threatens to roll back decades of pro-liberty precedents, and to destroy the consensus on the Court that freedom of speech and other essential rights must not be sacrificed to the shifting whims of legislative majorities.”  I hope to be a failed prophet.