Just in Case the Peons Dare Exercise Their Right

to throw the bums out and dare challenge the rule of their betters, states are now enacting all kinds of restrictions on who is allowed to vote:

On May 19, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a bill cutting the period for early voting from 14 to eight days. Florida residents who recently moved from one county to another and want to change voting precincts on election day will now have to cast a provisional ballot, subject to review by election officials.

The attack on voting rights in Florida is particularly significant given its central role in the theft of the 2000 elections.

A lawsuit filed in anticipation of the June 28 mayoral elections in Miami-Dade County by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenges the legislation for violating the federal Voting Rights Act. The US Department of Justice did not grant the state pre-clearance for the legislation as required under the act.

The Voting Rights Act was enacted in 1965 following massive popular resistance to Jim Crow segregation and voter intimidation in the South. It requires that the Department of Justice investigate proposed changes in election laws and rules that affect counties with a history of racial discrimination.

Good ol' Florida, land of voter integrity.

Is the Voting Rights Act

being gutted by the USSC?

New and more technically sophisticated methods of minority voter suppression were employed in subsequent elections, and may well have tipped the balance in Ohio in the 2004 presidential campaign, ensuring Bush the electoral votes needed for reelection. These include so-called “voter caging,” in which mass mailings are sent to predominately minority areas in the months before an election. The mail returned as undeliverable is stockpiled and used at the polls to challenge the right of the addressees to vote.

Republican-controlled governments in Georgia, Indiana and other states have enacted laws requiring voters to bring photo ID to the polls, a measure which has been upheld by the Supreme Court as politically neutral, but which has the deliberate effect of reducing the proportion of poor, minority and immigrant workers able to vote, since they are least likely to have photo IDs.

Given the probability that the five right-wing justices—the same five who upheld the photo ID law in Indiana last year—were prepared to overturn Section 5, it seems apparent that they pulled back from doing so because of political considerations.

Miscellaneous News

The USSC rules against the GOP regarding Ohio:

The U.S. Supreme Court sided Friday with Ohio's top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations.

The justices overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility

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According to News from the Ass... Rep. Tim Mahoney admits he did it but claims he did nothing illegal.
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Jack Cashill has more evidence for his claim Barack Obama didn't write Dreams from My Father all by himself but had substantial help from Bill Ayers.

Campaign Follies.

OF COURSE the GOP won't worry itself with "anti-voter fraud" efforts as is the past. Why should they? They've got the opponent they want and won't have to cheat at all.
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