An op-ed in Louisiana’s largest newspaper about the Justice Department lawsuit under Section 7 of  Motor Voter:  “If the state has indeed failed to drag the poor and disabled onto the electoral register, that is hardly the same as barring access. The requisite forms are available everywhere, and that should be enough. It is plainly absurd for a federal government on the brink of default to spend our money in an attempt to force the state to treat adult citizens like backward children.  Registering to vote is so easy that anyone who can’t figure it out — especially in a government assistance office — would be all at sea on election day anyway. If ever such a sap did find the way to a polling station, he’d be baffled once he got inside the booth.”  This is the same Justice Department that refuses to enforce Section 8 of Motor Voter, the provision which requires states to remove dead and ineligible voters.