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PA Republican Admits "Voter ID" is Political Power Play

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Republicans’ Voter Suppression Project Grinds On

Mitt Romney was in Michigan this week trying to make it competitive in the presidential election. It’s a steep climb for the native Michigander because President Barack Obama’s auto bailout, which Romney opposed, has helped bring the state’s unemployment rate down by 5.7 points since 2009. But Romney has a strong ally there: legislation being pushed this month by his…

Michigan GOP joins push to raise obstacles to voting

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Governor Scott on Florida's voter purge

Suppressive Voting Laws Take Hit, Federal Judge Blocks Florida Law

A federal judge blocked enforcement of key provisions of a restrictive voting law in Florida today, a breakthrough victory for Florida voters and voting rights advocates nationwide. The law, H.B. 1355, included onerous restrictions on community-based voter registration drives, forcing the League of Women Voters of Florida and other groups to shut down their drives. In…

Florida GOP Takes Voter Suppression to a Brazen New Extreme

Imagine this: a Republican governor in a crucial battleground state instructs his secretary of state to purge the voting rolls of hundreds of thousands of allegedly ineligible voters. The move disenfranchises thousands of legally registered voters, who happen to be overwhelmingly black and Hispanic Democrats. The number of voters prevented from casting a ballot exceeds…

Connecticut's new voter law bucks national trend

Under Dan Malloy, Connecticut is now poised to become only the ninth state to enact election-day registration, bucking a disturbing national trend toward greater restrictions: http://newamericamedia.org/2012/05/connecticuts-new-voter-law-bucks-national-trend.php

Voter ID laws enforce discrimination

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Obama Campaign Grapples With New Voter ID Laws

WASHINGTON — Field workers for President Obama’s campaign fanned out across the country over the weekend in an effort to confront a barrage of new voter identification laws that strategists say threaten the campaign’s hopes for registering new voters ahead of the November election. In Wisconsin, where a new state law requires those registering voters…

American Legislative Exchange Council dismantles their task force devoted to writing pro-voter suppression laws

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