TTV report: Turnout up sharply in Georgia, home of strictest Voter ID law

Updated on Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 2:21PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Please see the followup below this article for an update. One organization is contesting TTV's basis for comparisons on voter turnout.

As President Barack Obama and the Democrats resort to political war over the sequester, it’s useful to remember a sizable expense for the administration’s Justice Dept. last year. DOJ used taxpayer money to fight states that enacted Voter ID laws. Most, if not all, of those laws still stand.

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Big media omits context in attacks on Gov. Scott over voter roll checks

Florida Gov. Rick Scott hasn’t backed down on his efforts to make sure Florida’s voter registration lists are accurate. Media are covering the duel between Scott and the feds, but as usual, Big Media leaves a lot of the context out of a few critical claims about Scott.

The US Report decided to provide some of that context:

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DHS stymies Florida’s request for help on checking voter rolls amid dubious court ruling

President Barack Obama’s Dept. of Homeland Security has refused to let the state of Florida access information that would help the state determine if approximately 2,700 voters are ineligible. DHS has a lock on immigration information, and under Obama’s administration, there’s a wall between federal and state agencies.

Obama’s Dept. of Justice took Florida to court over changes in voter regulations, some of them aimed at saving money in difficult economic times.

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Obama’s DOJ goes after another state in ongoing campaign

There’s no doubt that President Barack Obama’s Dept. of Justice has launched an all-out war on the states, largely in the interest of concentrating all powers in the hands of federal government bureaucrats.

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Did Sen. Nelson read HB 1355 before siccing DOJ on Florida?

The US Dept. of Justice is very busy harassing the states, and US Sen. Bill Nelson (Florida) just increased the DOJ workload. Nelson and his fellow Democrats are upset over Florida law HB 1355 (2011). The bill makes changes to the Florida Election Code. Legacy media and Nelson appear to be working the bill for political aims.

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DoJ and States’ delay on MOVE Act compliance could subvert military vote in November

Gunner in battle in Kunar Province, the village of Spinkay in Afghanistan. (Photo courtesy of US Army.)Ensuring that troops serving overseas have their votes counted could be delayed by some states and the Dept. of Justice.

After the MOVE Act was passed in 2009, states were expected to comply with what US Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) believes is an uncomplicated mandate. “The MOVE Act’s text is clear,” Cornyn wrote in a letter to the Dept. of Justice in July.

Cornyn wrote the letter about the MOVE Act after learning about remarks made during the 2010 Winter meeting of the National Asso. of Secretaries of State.

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