When pigs fly. Florida’s suit about voter disenfranchisement

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And, when the Flying Spaghetti Monster attacks Florida.

Florida Democrats file suit against DNC, cite voter disenfranchisement

Comparing their fight to a family squabble, Florida's top congressional Democrats dismissed the idea that their lawsuit against their own party will hurt the state's chances of delivering a victory to their eventual presidential nominee.

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After threatening legal action for weeks, Hastings and Sen. Bill Nelson filed suit Thursday against the Democratic National Committee over their state's right to help pick a presidential candidate.

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In their lawsuit, the two lawmakers accuse the DNC and its chairman, Howard Dean, of violating the Constitution, as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which protects voters from racial discrimination. The lawsuit argues that the DNC's penalty will disproportionately affect Florida's black voters, most of whom are Democrats.

''For the DNC to say to the fourth largest contingency of Democrats in the nation that their votes will not matter in next year's presidential primary is not only shocking and ironic, but we believe is illegal,'' Hastings said during a Capitol Hill news conference.

Yet, Florida's defenders of voters rights have been silent about their constituents lawsuit:

Lawsuit calls voter-registration law unfair

Claiming that a 2-year-old voter registration law will unfairly block minorities, including Hispanics, from registering to vote, the Florida branch of the NAACP and a Miami-based Haitian group filed a federal lawsuit Monday that seeks to throw the law out.

Florida law requires that a citizen's name on a voter registration form be matched with a Social Security number or driver's license number. Florida legislators made the change to comply with the Help America Vote Act.

Florida used HAVA and campaigned to push the (self-voting) touch screen voting machines in minority polling precincts.

Duval County's voter caging scandal

The case centers on e-mails that have come to light since the congressional investigation into the mass firings of U.S. attorneys. Contained in some of them, Kennnedy and Whitehouse contend, is proof some Jacksonville voters were targeted for voter caging by Tim Griffin, then working for the Republican National Committee and later appointed as a replacement U.S. attorney in Arkansas. Griffin has denied the allegations.

Or, what about this litte jewel:

The Department of Justice's Voting Section pressuring states to purge voter rolls before the 2008 election under an arcane provision in the National Voter Registration Act, better known as the Motor Voter law.