Texas: “Normal turnout and few problems reported under voter ID law”


Confusion at the polls seemed limited. Dallas County administrators said Wednesday that they had reviewed about a third of the provisional ballots cast on Tuesday. They counted only five so far that had been submitted because of problems related to the new law.

Those results seemed to deal a blow to Democrats’ arguments that the law will disenfranchise voters.  “I think this is a made-up issue by many Democrats,” said Wade Emmert, chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party. “As time goes on, fewer and fewer people believe that there is any voter suppression because of it.”

But Taylor Holden, executive director of the Dallas County Democratic Party, said Tuesday’s experience doesn’t necessarily indicate how the law will affect future elections. Primary turnout is typically lower than in the November general election, she said.

Washington Examiner: “Radical Bites the Dust”

“Sorry, Messrs. Obama and Holder, it’s about way more than that. It’s about your ongoing attempt to politicize the Justice Department with perhaps technically qualified lawyers, but those who want to implement an agenda that grossly violates any commitment to partisan neutrality and justice. For decades, liberals have been infesting executive departments across the board with leftist activists trying to advance leftist policies through the misuse of their assigned positions.”  David Limbaugh.

Rejection of Debo: “A Victory for What’s Right”

Pavlich, Tribune Review.



President Obama predictably called the vote a “travesty” because Adegbile’s qualifications were “impeccable.” The real travesty, however, was that he nominated Adegbile in the first place; he should be ashamed of promoting race-baiting.


But the vote shows that some Democrats still are willing to put morals above their political party. 

Von Spakovsky on Sensenbrenner: “He clearly does not understand his own bill”

 Watchdog has the story.

“‘The bill can easily be broadened in Committee to recognize ‘persistent and extremely low white turnout’ as well, but was not included in the original draft because no one has ever flagged persistent suppression of majority voters as a problem,’ Sensenbrenner said in the release.

Not quite.


There was the case of Ike Brown, the black chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee in Noxubee County, Miss”

“Cruz Reacts to NRO Story on Sensenbrenner’s Voting Power Grab”

National Review has Senator Ted Cruz reacting to my story on the Sensenbrenner bill.  Snip:

“It is disturbing that new efforts are being made in the House and Senate to resurrect voting rules that were recently deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. We should protect the civil rights of every American, and other sections of the Voting Rights Act already provide strong protections against racially discriminatory voting practices. The Supreme Court held that circumstances have changed dramatically in the last 50 years, and the old justifications for preclearance are no longer constitutionally applicable. We should respect the Supreme Court’s judgment.


Texas has a strong record regarding minority voting rights. According to 2012 census data, African-American voter turnout in Texas was ten percentage points higher than white turnout, and African-American voter registration was more than six percentage points higher than white registration. Additionally, the gap between Hispanic and white voter registration in Texas for 2012 was a percentage point better than the national average, and the gap in voter turnout was nearly identical to the national average. Moreover, federal legislation should treat every state equally, and Texas–which has elected more African-Americans and Hispanics statewide than most other States–should not have its legislative decisions unfairly subjected to second-guessing by unelected federal bureaucrats.”