Voting Rights Violators: Citizens United, Loopholes, and Foxes Guarding the Hen House

In 40 weeks we go to the polls again to reelect President Obama. Republicans know that they aren't going to gain the support of the American people, so instead they're going to strip them of the right to vote:

• While I've discussed before (and will almost assuredly discuss again) how terrible the Citizens United decision was, it at least maintained the idea that disclosures of the identity of donors would shed some light on the process.  Luckily for those who just want to buy elected office, and unluckily for the rest of us, the 3 Republican members on the FEC have blocked all attempts to require SuperPACs to release their donor lists before the primaries.  Which means that even though SuperPACs have funded half the political ads that have been on the air so far (and that number is going to increase as we start shifting into the general election), we don't know who's paying for them or what their hidden agendas are.  So it really shouldn't surprise anyone that Republicans are defending them.

• Rush Limbaugh says that "there's only one reason to oppose" voter ID laws, "that you want to cheat."  Not the fact that they discriminate against the young, the poor, and minorities. Then again, there's a good chance that he thinks all those groups being allowed to vote at all is cheating.

• Kentucky Republicans have voted to approve a redistricting map that, due to the state's residency requirements, will bar the Democratic State Senator currently representing Lexington from running for reelection, and will replace her with a Republican who currently lives 200 miles outside the city.

• Soon to be Ex-Governor Scott Walker is abusing a loophole in Wisconsin election law to raise unlimited out of state donations to fight his recall election.  Somehow I don't think that's going to be worth the cost for a Governor people already assume is bought and paid for.

• How terrible is Ohio Governor John Kasich's new anti-voter law that strips people of the right to vote absentee?  So terrible that Ohio's Republican Secretary of State is calling for it to be repealed.  And while it's nice to know that there's one Republican who takes being his state's election monitor seriously, Indiana's Republican Secretary of State just had his own trial for committing voter fraud start.  Is the Republicans obsession with "voter fraud" really as simple as them assuming that everyone else commits it as much as they do?