Virginia Senate Committee Approves Tighter Voter ID Law
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 Photo ID Law Passes First Test
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.
West Virginia Republicans to Push for Photo ID
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.
Arizona Sec. State: No Voter Suppression with Voter ID
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.
South Carolina Town to Require Photo ID in Jan. 8 Election
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.
Critics Proved Wrong Again on Voter ID
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.
Opinion: The Left’s Ongoing Assault on Election Integrity
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.
Snap, Crackle, Pop: How the Left Smeared Voter ID
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.
Opinion: Left Likes Fuzzy Math on Election Day
Robert Knight: From Republican Rep. Allen B. West's improbable recount loss in South Florida, to reports of voting-machine irregularities, to the hundreds of precincts in Ohio and Pennsylvania that reported a virtual 100 percent vote for Barack Obama and zero for Mr. Romney, something is clearly wrong. Read more: KNIGHT: Left likes fuzzy math on Election Day - Washington Times https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/23/left-likes-fuzzy-math-on-election-day/#ixzz2DSgdslCK Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
The Peculiar Voter Rolls of Wood County, Ohio
The Ohio secretary of state's site reports that 104,461 people are registered to vote in Wood County. According to the 2011 Census, Wood County has a population of 126,355. An estimated 21 percent are younger than 18 and unable to vote. That means that only about 100,000, give or take, of Wood County residents should be of voting age. So why are so many Wood County residents registered to vote?