GOP still trying hard to make voting harder

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http://www.kansas.com/2012/06/26/2386591/gop-still-trying-hard-to-make.html

By Jonathan Alter
Bloomberg News
Published Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at 12 a.m

Mitt Romney campaigned in Michigan last week, where he faces a steep challenge because of his opposition to the auto bailout. But Romney has a strong ally there: legislation being pushed this month by his fellow Republicans aimed at preventing the League of Women Voters from undertaking the voter-registration drives it has sponsored for nearly a century.

Across the country, Republicans are carefully orchestrating plans to make voting harder – let’s call it the Voter Suppression Project – in order to help them win elections.

The Republican effort to restrict voting isn’t just anti-Democrat; it’s anti-democratic. No fair-minded person believes the tall tales of voters pretending they were someone else, which have been debunked by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law and others. What fool would risk prison or deportation to cast a single vote?

This isn’t about stopping vote-stealing and other corruption, for which there already are plenty of laws on the books. It’s about rigging the system to keep power.

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1. Yet if Democrats insisted on photo IDs for purchasing guns

the Republicans would holler about how it impedes a citizen's ability to exercise their constitutional rights.

We are watching the organization of a coup. And they don't fucking care if we see because we don't matter.

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2. Obviously you have never purchased a firearm. N/T

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3. Does my Sig-Sauer P-226 count?