The GOP’s crime against voters

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The GOP’s crime against voters
By Eugene Robinson, Published: July 9

Spare us any more hooey about “preventing fraud” and “protecting the integrity of the ballot box.” The Republican-led crusade for voter ID laws has been revealed as a cynical ploy to disenfranchise as many likely Democratic voters as possible, with poor people and minorities the main targets.

Recent developments in Pennsylvania — one of more than a dozen states where voting rights are under siege — should be enough to erase any lingering doubt: The GOP is trying to pull off an unconscionable crime.

<..> The Pennsylvania law and others like it are under attack in the courts; this week, a federal three-judge panel in Washington is hearing arguments on Texas’s year-old law, with a ruling expected next month. Meanwhile, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a conservative Republican, broke with orthodoxy last week and vetoed bills that would have toughened an existing voter ID statute. Maybe the tide is turning. If it doesn’t, these laws will potentially disenfranchise or discourage millions of qualified voters.

In a previous column, I wrote that voter ID was a solution in search of a problem. I was wrong: The problem seems to be that too many of the wrong kind of voters — low-income, urban, African American, Hispanic — are showing up at the polls. Republican candidates have been vowing to “take back” the country. Now we know how.

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This is well worth the read. Robinson goes after the PA jerk who said the voter ID will allow Willard to win.

[Brewman_Jax]

The repubs aren't even trying to keep it a secret or use the code phrases. It's flat-out voter suppression to help Romney by disenfranchising those that are not likely to vote for him. The DOJ needs to start throwing some repubs in jail for civil rights violations!

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(07-10-2012 02:12 PM)Brewman_Jax Wrote:  The repubs aren't even trying to keep it a secret or use the code phrases. It's flat-out voter suppression to help Romney by disenfranchising those that are not likely to vote for him. The DOJ needs to start throwing some repubs in jail for civil rights violations!

Holder may have signaled such a move today in unscripted remarks to the NAACP when he called the voter ID laws "poll taxes".

This being very time sensitive I would expect action soon if at all.