Stateline editorial.

“Perhaps the biggest wildcard facing GOP plans for Texas and many other Southern states is that the Obama administration must approve their new maps, both for congressional and state legislative districts.”

If the DOJ is truly an obstacle, as so many editorials have claimed, then the solution is simple: go straight to United States District Court in DC and go around the obstacle.  The Rules of Civil Procedure will provide certainty.  The judge will provide a neutral decisionmaker.  It will be faster and in the end may cost less. 

Here.

Wisconsin Journal Times:  “The voter identification provision is a wellness program for democracy.  In the modern health care field, the trend is prevention. Nip a condition in the bud before it even becomes a problem, the theory goes.  Voter ID operates on the same principle. That’s what the League of Women Voters, the NAACP and other angry opponents lining up to bash it fail to understand.””

The New Black Panthers disgraced  the Jacksonville Martin Luther King Day parade this weekend by marching.

Dan Scanlan at the Florida Times Union disgraced their pages by reporting on the NBPP presence in the parade without any hint of the fact that the Panthers represent precisely the opposite of what Dr. King envisioned for this country. 

“High school marching bands, ROTC programs, the New Black Panthers and Jacksonville Urban League joined hundreds of other participants in front of the Federal Reserve Bank on Water Street before 10 a.m. as a light rain fell.”

Can you imagine if the Klan marched in a President’s Day or Fourth of July parade? Then again, I doubt any rational person would allow them to participate.

Troy Record:

“After a lengthy hiatus through the holidays, testimony resumed Thursday before an extended grand jury hearing evidence of alleged voter fraud against two Democratic officials.

It is unclear when the 23-member panel will vote on whether to file criminal charges against Councilman Michael LoPorto or county Democratic Election Commissioner Edward McDonough, both of whom are accused of major roles in a scandal that saw dozens of absentee ballots fraudulently cast in the Sept. 15, 2009 Working Families Party primary election.”

Washington Post

A survey of Virginia counties is in the process of being conducted to see which counties are seeking bailout and which are not. There seems to be quite a few counties in Virginia which have started the bailout process.  More reports to follow in various publications about bailouts in Virginia.  Bedford County is one of the counties on a bailout blitz.  More about the bailout here.

One of the issues in these bailouts is whether they are 100 percent bailouts, or 95 percent bailouts. If they are 95 percent bailouts, then this would certainly be brought to the attention of the Supreme Court in the various challenges to Section 5. Recent bailouts have much to say on this point.   Another issue is whether the language of the bailout statute is being followed, or whether the consent decrees include terms that do not satisfy or conflict with the statute, such as ongoing administrative oversight.  The nature and contours of each of these bailouts is relevant to whether bailouts are achieving the constitutional aim of the law.  If they impose restrictions, they aren’t genuine full bailouts.  Whether or not they follow the statute is relevant when assessing the constitutional functionality of the escape mechanism.  Much more on this soon.

“Derrick Henry has resigned from the Daytona Beach City Commission as part of a court agreement that ends the absentee-ballot fraud case against him.”

Orlando Sentinel.

The Douglas County attorney has asked the state police to investigate voter fraud in the Omaha mayor contest.

“Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine will ask the Nebraska State Patrol to investigate Forward Omaha — the group opposing the recall of Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle.”  More here.

The sentences in Nevada hand down were earlier reported here.   More at American Spectator.

“What most people don’t seem to know is that Busefink also ran ACORN’s fraud-ridden 2008 national voter registration drive. In that drive, officials tossed an astounding 400,000 bogus registrations.”