Raleigh, N.C. -- A group of left-leaning organizations said Jan. 23 that requiring voters to present photo identification at the polls would "stack the deck" against fair and open elections in North Carolina. Republican legislative leaders say they plan to consider a voter ID bill when the General Assembly reconvenes next week.
Commonwealth Court has blocked a bid by a group that is challenging the state's Voter ID Law to get the driver's license information of every Pennsylvanian. The Washington, D.C.-based Advancement Project has no legal right to that data, which includes birth dates, addresses and Social Security numbers, the court ruled.
Virginia Sen. Dick Black's measure to tighten ID voter requirements cleared a GOP-dominated Senate Privileges and Elections subcommittee on a 4-2 vote on Jan. 17.
South Carolina's Voter ID law had its first test on Tuesday in the small town of Branchville in Orangeburg County, and apparently passed it without incident.
CHARLESTON -- Armed with their largest share of the House of Delegates in decades, West Virginia Republicans plan to resume their push to require voters to show photo identification at the polls, adding the state to a growing group that expect to debate the topic this year.
Secretary of State Ken Bennett told a U.S. Senate panel looking into voter suppression that there was no evidence of such efforts in Arizona in this fall's election. In testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Bennett said that minority-voter registration is at its highest level ever in Arizona, even as voter-identification requirements mandating proof of citizenship have been in force for nearly eight years.
The Jan. 8 special election in Branchville will be the first balloting in South Carolina in which voters must show photo identification, according to Howard Jackson, Orangeburg County's director of voter registration and elections.
Kris Kobach, the secretary of state of Kansas, has released some very interesting statistics that disprove -- once again -- the fallacious claims made by critics of voter ID.
Robert Knight: If you think the left is resting on its laurels after Barack Obama's re-election and the Democrats' retention of the U.S. Senate, think again. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who halted photo ID laws in South Carolina and Texas before the November election, has suggested that the United States should consider adopting "automatic" voter registration.
The Left's vicious all-out assault on electoral integrity this past election cycle was largely funded by the nation's most radical labor union and the man who brought you Rice Krispies. The Battle Creek, Michigan-based W.K. Kellogg Foundation funneled a staggering $5.2 million in grants to the Applied Research Center (ARC), which churned out a steady stream of propaganda aimed at convincing Americans it's somehow racist to require photo ID from a voter, Media Trackers Ohio reports.