CBS St. Louis. “County Clerk Bob Delaney tells the Belleville News Democrat his office and the office of State’s Attorney Brendan Kelly have found hundreds of suspected fraudulent voting addresses and questionable absentee ballots and applications in Cahokia, Centreville and Washington Park. . . . Two years ago two members of Cahokia’s village board plead guilty to charges of voter fraud.” Someone alert Tova Wang.
Texas redistricting dust up
Speaking in Orange County (CA) April 6
I will be speaking at the Orange County Bar Association/ Federalist Society at noon on April 6 in Newport Beach, California. Information and reservations here.
DOJ Preclears Georgia citizienship verification regs
Top 150 conservative news websites by traffic counts
An interesting ranking. I’d like to see the liberal counterpart (and will post it if someone emails it).
Full list of 150 here.
Top 10:
1. Wall Street Journal
2. Real Clear Politics
3. Hot Air
4. Town Hall
5. Daily Caller
6. The Hill
7. National Review
8. Investors Business Daily
9. Pajamas Media
10. Rush Limbaugh.com
Daily Caller on Yakima Washington lawsuit
FVAP’s Bob Carey at Oversea Vote Foundation
Here is a video Bob Carey at the Overseas Vote Foundation conference.
Minute 21. “If there was any other community in the United States where 300,000 of them were systematically unable to cast their ballots” people would be outraged. Spot on.
Walter Cronkite, Lena Horne, Natasha Richardson on voter rolls in New York
Big surprise here. The New York Post has the story. I’m sure the Justice Department will be opening an investigation under Section 8 of the the National Voter Registration Act – maybe in 2013.
Washington Post: Obama’s Justice Department clears itself
NC Democrats reject compromise on voter ID
Yesterday North Carolina Republicans compromised and agreed to drop voter ID as part of an election package. Today, Democrats decided they didn’t want any polling place checks at all, including use of a voter registration card, something that presumably every real registered voter would possess. More here. Sometimes such extreme positions are taken that it leads to perfectly reasonable questions about the motives of such opposition. Why would they oppose production of a document that a voter per se must have to be a registered voter? If they have lost it, surely they could vote a provisional ballot, right? What rational justification could support this position other than potentially wanting to manipulate the system?