http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/07/the_crackdown_on_voting_pt_1.php?ref=fpblgThe Crackdown on Voting, Pt. 1
Josh Marshall | July 15, 2011, 8:11AM
As I wrote earlier,
we're going to make the nationwide crackdown on voting one of the centerpieces of our 2012 campaign coverage. And here's a small but very illustrative part of the story. The new voting crackdown law in Florida is so restrictive that
even the League of Women Voters (about as mainstream and establishment a group as you can get) has dropped its voter registration plans in the state. As Deirdre MacNabb, president of the Florida League of Women Voters, told TPM in a phone interview this week:
"when we looked at the laws, we felt that this would put our thousands of volunteers across the state who have registered voters for 70 years in Florida at a grave disadvantage."
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/florida_league_of_women_voters_drops_registration.php?ref=fpbTPMMuckraker
Florida League Of Women Voters Drops Registration Plan Over Restrictive Laws