6 Other Times Republicans Admitted Voting Restrictions Are Just About Disenfranchising Democrats
“I think we had a better election,” Pennsylvania’s GOP chairman Rob Gleason said in July. “Think about this: We cut Obama by 5 percent…I think Voter ID helped a bit in that.”
Texas’ Republican attorney general and candidate for governor Greg Abbott doesn’t believe Texas’ redistricting discriminates against minorities. ... their redistricting decisions were designed to increase the Republican Party’s electoral prospects at the expense of the Democrats
“Stop Obama’s nutty agenda and support voter ID,” read a card attached to a pack of peanuts passed out by the state’s GOP, state Rep. Alan Clemmons (R-Myrtle Beach)
“The reduction in the number of days allowed for early voting is particularly important because early voting plays a major role in Obama’s ground game. The Democrats carried most states that allow many days of early voting, and Obama’s national field director admitted, shortly before last year’s election, that ‘early voting is giving us a solid lead in the battleground states that will decide this election.’
“The Obama technocrats have developed an efficient system of identifying prospective Obama voters and then nagging them (some might say harassing them) until they actually vote. It may take several days to accomplish this, so early voting is an essential component of the Democrats’ get-out-the-vote campaign.”
She went on to say that early voting results in “illegal votes” that “cancel out the votes of honest Americans.” In her mind, “Democratic” automatically equals “illegal.”
Franklin County (Columbus) GOP Chair Doug Preisse gave a surprisingly blunt answer to the Columbus Dispatch on Sunday: “I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban—read African-American—voter-turnout machine.”
Richard Posner — the Reagan-appointed federal judge who wrote the influential decision that ruled Indiana’s voter ID law cons utional in 2007 — now believes that he “absolutely” he got that case wrong.
Posner told Huffington Post Live that “the problem is that there hadn’t been that much activity with voter identification. Maybe we should have been more imaginative…”he said, echoing comments on the case he made in his new book. “We weren’t really given strong indications that requiring additional voter identification would actually disfranchise people en led to vote.”
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