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Monday, February 13th, 2017

The war on votes: Republicans around the country are increasing restrictions on voting

Author:     Matthew Rozsa
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     Friday, Feb 10, 2017 02:10 PM PST
 Link: The war on votes: Republicans around the country are increasing restrictions on voting
Stephan:   Since the Nixon era, and particularly beginning with the Reagan administration, the Republican Party recognizing that it was becoming a White race party and that we were becoming a majority min0rity nation has worked to limit voting to Whites whenever and wherever it could.  Here is a report on this process.

Credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay

Republican legislators throughout America are working to make it harder for minorities and the poor to vote.

The precise nature of the efforts varies from state to state, but there are at least 20 overall that are trying to restrict voting in some way, according to the Associated Press on Thursday.

Iowa and New Hampshire are trying to eliminate same-day registration and voting. Texas is shortening its early voting period. Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Maine and Nebraska are imposing new or stronger Voter ID laws.

All of this is being done despite all reputable research proving that in-person voter fraud is much more rare, and thus much less of a risk, than other threats to election integrity like voting machine tampering.

What’s more, because these restrictions would disproportionately impact the poor, racial minorities, and college students — all of whom tend to vote Democratic — many critics claim the new laws are being pushed to disenfranchise Democratic voters and thereby help Republicans cheat to win elections.

There is already evidence that voting restrictions […]

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