While much has rightly been made of Debo Adegbile -- President Obama’s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division -- representation of radical cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, there are a number of other reasons that make his nomination extremely troubling. 

When a Milwaukee Police Task Force on the 2004 Election released the most comprehensive and non-partisan study of vote fraud, the left attacked . . .  the studies release!  They also attacked the police for recommending an end to same day registration as the best way to stop vote fraud or failing that, real photo ID.  The left again did not attack the substance of the police recommendations or factual findings but instead said it was wrong for the police to make policy recommendations or release a report.

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While the Eric Holder led Department of Justice is fighting against voter ID in North Carolina denying any fraud ever happens in North Carolina, state officials are taking the opposite view.  A recent local election was so ripe with vote fraud state officials had to step in and order a “do over.”

Today we want to spotlight the effort for photo ID in Ohio and what that can mean to the poor. Ohio State Rep. John Becker wrote an op-ed for Clevland.com on the need for voter ID:

The Brennan Center for Justice has made its mission to deny and ignore vote fraud as part of its efforts to support the Democratic Party. One of its leaders, Myrna Perez, has even been nominated to be a Democrat commissioner at the Election Assistance Commission. Part of this effort is the attempt to define vote fraud as merely impersonation, saying that such fraud is virtually impossible and rare.  Well in the Brennan Center’s own neighborhood of New York City, a neutral police agency found out just how easy voter impersonation is to do: