The Pragmatic Pundit has an absolute must piece read on the history of voter disenfranchisement in the US and the GOP’s efforts to re-institute and reinforce Jim Crow. This article contains the best summation of the past four years that I have seen. Here’s an excerpt, but be sure to…
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Ohio: ThinkProgress: In a dramatic move, Ohio Secretary of State John Husted immediately suspended two Democrats on a county election board after they voted to allow weekend voting. Earlier, Husted issued a directive canceling weekend voting statewide. In 2008, Ohio offered early voting on the weekends and thousands of voters…
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Charles Blow, New York Times: Shady money, voter suppression, shifting positions, murky details and widespread apathy. If there is a road map for a Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan win in November, that’s it. Distasteful all. …. America, this is the Republican ticket. Although most smart political observers currently have Romney losing…
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From The Nation: Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson, a Republican, declined to issue an injunction against the state’s new voter ID law in a ruling [this week], despite the preponderance of evidence that the new law is unjust, unnecessary and discriminatory. (See my blog “Ten Takeaways From Pennsylvania’s Voter…
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OFA Sues to Restore Early Ohio VotingYou know the Republicans have done and will do everything within their power to steal this election. The voter suppression laws that have cropped up all over the country are bankrolled by the GOP. Romney, pulling a Karl Rove, is now accusing Obama of…
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From Politico: At least 5 million voters, predominantly young and from minority groups sympathetic to President Barack Obama, could be affected by an unprecedented flurry of new legislation by Republican governors and GOP-led legislatures to change or restrict voting rights by Election Day 2012. Supporters of these new laws —…
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From TPM: The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has launched a formal investigation into whether Pennsylvania’s voter ID law discriminates against minorities, TPM has learned. In a three-page letter sent to Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele on Monday, DOJ requested state data on registered voters as well as…
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