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PDFRolling Stone has a very nice article on voter suppression tactics being used by the GOP and their allies, such as the Koch Brothers.
From Rolling Stone:
As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots. “What has happened this year is the most significant setback to voting rights in this country in a century,” says Judith Browne-Dianis, who monitors barriers to voting as co-director of the Advancement Project, a civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C.
The full article can be found here.
Senator Dick Durbin began holding hearings last week on GOP voter suppression legislation that has besieged state legislatures’ agendas this year. The Senators heard testimony from the Brennan Center that up to 12 percent of eligible voters don’t have valid government ID, and the number is higher for seniors, African-Americans, students, people with disabilities and those with low incomes.
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