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Election Law Center: Monthly Archives for December 2011

CBS News: Occupy Protests interfere with Republican primary voting and counting

WSJ: "Voter ID Laws Lead Flurry of New Statutes"

"Voter ID terrifies Democrats"

Florida Woman Charged with Voter Fraud

Slate Magazine: Obama gamble on voter ID threatens Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act

Santorum: "Obama is playing politics with South Carolina voter ID"

Ken Blackwell: "Holder Race-baiting about Obama relection, not voting rights"

Tennessee Secretary of State touts voter photo ID education efforts

Human Events: Voter ID and the Diluted Franchise

State judge adopts NM redistricting plan with fewest changes

Philadelphia Inquirer: Selective Outrage Over Voting

"Voter Fraud is Real"

Wall Street Journal: "Holder's Racial Politics - The AG's attack on voter ID laws may backfire legally and politically."

Photo ID "Act of Outrage" officially becomes a campaign issue in Texas

Heritage Foundry: "Revisiting the Supreme Court's Rebuttal of Voter ID Detractors"

Cal Thomas: The Justice Department's "identity" problem

Fox Special Report: "Picture ID required to vote"

Another argument for Texas to withdraw its Voter ID submission and go to Court

Fox News: Battle over voter ID laws heat up in the states

The GOP's Answer to Union Money

Georgia Republican redistricting: First time all three maps precleared on initial attempt

Obama-Holder DOJ blinds itself to voter fraud concerns

We are waiting General Abbott

Governor Perry v. Virginia Republican Party

Perry files lawsuit in federal court attempting to gain access to Virginia ballot

DOJ "Politics Drive Law Enforcement"

Scott Walker calls recall drive accepting duplicate and fake names ‘unusual’

Kentucky: Deadlock ahead in the redistricting of congressional seats?

Washington Post Redistricting Scorecard

"Federal judge: For blacks, 'voting rights' include identifying Democrats on ballots"

With political stalemate in Connecticut, state court to decide new congressional districts

In Alaska, a collision of "compactness" and the Voting Rights Act

Georgia AG vows to defend new maps if Democrats challenge them

Injustice on WBT-AM Charlotte 11am Tuesday

PJ Media: Merry Christmas: Law, Christmas, and Human Dignity

Illinois & DOJ ignores inflated registration rolls....ooops it's already 2012

Additional voter ID battles in 2012 may have political and legal ramifications

If Texas wants Voter ID for primary, go to court now

Gingrich camp likens Virginia ballot setback to Pearl Harbor

Voter ID Fights Heating Up Before Holidays

WSJ: Holder's Voter ID Fraud - the AG invents fear of voter suppression

BigGovernment.com: Eric Holder Blocks ID for Racial Reasons

Powerline on South Carolina voter ID law: "Obama’s DOJ Strikes a Blow"

UK's "Guardian" newspaper tells U.S. that the Electoral College is a relic

Contradicting Supreme Court, DOJ rejects photo ID law due to lack of voter impersonation fraud and speculative burden

Lots of SC Voter ID Coverage at PJ Media

On South Carolina voter ID, Texas AG vows "We'll fight to the end for ballot integrity"

NY Times: First DOJ objection to any voter ID law in 20 years

AJC: Feds OK Georgia voting lines, GOP advantage

Breaking News: Georgia House, Senate, & Congressional maps precleared by Voting Section

Justice Department rejects South Carolina Voter ID, calling it discriminatory

BREAKING: D.C. panel issues decision defining preclearance standards

GOP wins N.J. congressional redistricting battle

Ga. expects decision from DOJ on new maps today with lawsuit pending in event of objection

SC Election Commission sent wrong data to DOJ on voter ID

On the Dana Show Friday @3:30 EST in STL

"From the Department of Injustice Files at the Voting Section..."

DCCC finds Christmas hope in Pennsylvania redistricting plan

NCSL 2011 Legislative Action Bulletin

Daily Caller on DOJ Voting Section Perjury story

More on DOJ Perjury Confessions

Redistricting panel OKs AZ congressional map lopsided towards Democrats

PJ Media: "The DOJ Condones Perjury"

FEC votes unanimously to clear Representative Buchanan of wrongdoing

Congressman Brady's support of Pennsylvania GOP redistricting plan stirs controversy

More ACORN Voter Fraud Guilty Pleas

Perjury at DOJ and Redistricting, a strange mix

Photo ID coming soon to Pennsylvania

Missouri House Speaker offers photo ID reforms

Investigators: Democrats manipulated citizens' redistricting effort in California

Fraudulent Vote Probe arrests include councilmen

WSJ: "Cue the Voter ID Scaremongering"

Federal Judges release plan for Mississippi redistricting

Constitutional scholar: Holder's claims on state voter ID are "astounding"

Pennsylvania legislature modifies photo ID proposal to alleviate concerns

The DOJ and Democratic Party smear campaign against Photo ID fails as 69% believe the laws are not discriminatory

Texas Attorney General Abbott claims Holder's opposition to Voter ID is "game of politics" and vows to challenge DOJ in Court

Holder plays the race card with photo ID in lead up to Election cycle

Senator Cornyn: Voter ID laws are reasonable, constitutional, necessary

Secretary Kobach: Kansas ID law not being reviewed by DOJ

More on DOJ Voting Section and Project Vote/ACORN

DiGenova: Holder’s Objection to Voter ID Is 'Absurd'

Boston Radio - 5:30pm and NRA later

DOJ starts calling States to self report military voting compliance

Philadelphia Inquirer Editoral

Newly redistricted maps provide rough path for Pennsylvania Dems

Ohio redistricting compromise sets up battles of incumbents

NPR Interview on Voter ID with Hans Spakovsky, Heritage and Ben Jealous, NAACP

"Election Fraud Investigation: Did Fake Signatures Get Obama on Primary Ballot?"

"Election Expert John Fund: Voter ID Laws Don’t Suppress Black Vote"

"Voter fraud is real"

BigGov: DOJ Voting Section Communications With Project Vote

Thomas Sowell Christmas Book Pick: Injustice

National Review Editors: Voter ID is Not Jim Crow

Speaking at Southern Republican Leadership Conference

Voces Action Supports Texas Voter ID

Motion for default filed against DOJ in voting case

Von Spakovsky on PBS Newshour on Voter ID

Supreme Court and Justice Department on Collision Course Over Texas Redistricting and Minorities' Voting Rights

Sean Hannity and Quin Hillyer Agree! Injustice among best books of 2011!