National Review link:

“In a speech on April 11 to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, President Obama claimed that his administration had “taken on more than 100 voting-rights cases since 2009, and they’ve defended the rights of everybody from African Americans to Spanish speakers to soldiers serving overseas.” The real numbers are far less impressive.

As we have separately pointed out, the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, where we both formerly worked, has taken on only 39 cases since 2009. Despite the president’s rhetoric, this is considerably below the record of the Bush administration. For all of the criticism leveled at the Bush Justice Department by Eric Holder and civil-rights organizations, the Bush Justice Department had a far more robust enforcement record on voting rights than the Obama Justice Department has.

Politifact took up this discrepancy in the president’s claims and obtained a list of 102 cases from the Justice Department. This list, however, does not hold up under scrutiny.”