Justaposition of the day.
From the "Winners" column of The Journal Gazette's "Weekly scorecard" on Saturday:
Voters: A federal appeals court strikes down Texas’ tough voter ID law, ruling it puts “strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor.” The court said the Texas law is tougher than Indiana’s, which the Supreme Court upheld.
And from the Sunday Raleigh News & Observer:
RALEIGH A Raleigh-based group devoted to reducing the potential for voter fraud presented the N.C. Board of Elections on Friday with a list of nearly 30,000 names of dead people statewide who are still registered to vote.
The Voter Integrity Project compiled the list after obtaining death records from the state Department of Public Health from 2002 to March 31 and comparing them to the voter rolls.“Mainly, what we’re concerned about is the potential [for fraud],” said project director Jay DeLancy. “Since there is no voter ID law in North Carolina, anybody can walk in and claim to be anyone else.”
