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Better bring some identification and not just any identification, official though it may be if you plan to vote in Republican-controlled states. However, if you contribute tens of millions of dollars to sway an election on Republicans behalf, the party will fight to keep your identity a secret.
Consider, for instance, what happened to some attempting to participate in this months elections in Texas. The New York Times reported that Judge Sandra Watts was stopped while trying to vote because the name on her photo ID, the same one she had used for voter registration and identification of 52 years, did not exactly match her name in the official voter rolls.
Both Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis and Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott the front-runners in next years gubernatorial contest encountered the same obstacle. As did Jim Wright, the 90-year-old former speaker of the U.S. House. Wright, who represented his Fort Worth district in Congress for 34 years, told the local paper that he had voted in every election since 1944 and that he had realized shortly before Election Day that his identification a drivers license that expired in 2010 and a university faculty ID would not suffice under the states 2011 voter ID law. Indeed, officials required Wright to produce a certified copy of his birth certificate to procure a personal identification card that would allow him to vote.
More here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harold-meyerson-making-it-easier-to-buy-an-election-than-to-vote-in-one/2013/11/19/980fd138-514f-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop
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Gothmog
(145,821 posts)In addition to the litigation, there is some polling that shows that Hispanic voters will react negatively to the GOP voter suppression efforts. The only way to stop voter suppression is to force the GOP to pay a price
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)They are doing a very good job at cutting down the vote. And I will bet that in some places you will get to vote WO ID if you are GOP.
Gothmog
(145,821 posts)If we can mobilize voters who have ids, then we can make the GOP pay a price for this voter suppression. Battleground Texas and Wendy Davis are focusing on Hispanic and single white women voters. The GOP voter suppression efforts could encourage these groups to get out and vote