The Washington Post may have been one of the first out of the gate with their analysis of the North Carolina voter ID bill with an article entitled “North Carolina governor signs extensive voter ID law.”  Predictably, a combination of incompetence and bias results in the Washington Post article inexplicably citing to some epic battle over a new voter ID in Florida.  There was no new voter ID law and the battle over the phantom law never occurred.  Double whiff.

The Justice Department is also looking to challenge a new Voter ID law in Texas and has also fought against a new Voter ID law in Florida.

Yes, the Department of Justice is looking to challenge the new voter ID law in Texas but the Washington Post is peddling incorrect information about some phantom voter ID fight in Florida. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), Florida has had a photo ID law for years. And no new photo ID law took effect in Florida in 2012 or 2013. 

If the author had taken the time to investigate, he would have found there was litigation in Florida last year over early voting and citizenship verification using the federal SAVE database; however, it is bewildering how the Washington Post and the author came to the conclusion that DOJ recently fought some pitched voter ID battle in Florida that reflects in any way the litigation in Texas. It just didn’t happen and there are no facts to support that assertion. The only explanation other than gross error is that the Washington Post is conflating voter ID laws with other types of voting laws in an effort to mislead and misinform the American public.