This week in the War on Voting: Because you just can't have enough Herman Cain

Presented without comment, because I still haven't picked up and reassembled all the pieces of my skull.

Ok, maybe a little bit of comment. First, yes, that's that Ken Blackwell in the video with Cain. And, second, this:

Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R): "[...] Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."

Moving on, you know all about the Texas GOP's official party platform and it's disdain for critical thinking. But did you also know it is the official position of the Republican Party of Texas that the Voting Rights Act be overturned? It's one of their central planks.

"We urge that the Voter Rights Act of 1965 codified and updated in 1973 be repealed and not reauthorized," the platform reads.

Under a provision of the Voting Rights Act, certain jurisdictions must obtain permission from the federal government'called "preclearance"'before they change their voting rules. The rule was put in place in jurisdictions with a history of voter disenfranchisement.

You might remember that the Department of Justice used Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the provision referred to above, to block the state from implementing its new voter ID law because the law would disproportionately harm Latinos. The state, in turn, has sued the federal government along with South Carolina, in another prong in its effort to do away with this important civil and voting rights protection.

This is apparently the state's response to it's rapidly increasing, and Democratic-leaning, Latino population. Since Texas Republicans won't evolve politically, their only hope of survival is making sure only Republicans get to vote. It's a simple story, played out across the country this year.

And for more of that story for the week, make the jump below the fold.