Republicans even stupider than imagined, disenfranchise own voters
90-year-old Jim Wright, the former speaker of the House, was prevented from voting because of this requirement, one which disproportionately affects seniors with lapsed IDs.
Now consider this, from the 2012 presidential national exit polls:
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What kind of moron party disenfranchises its most reliable voters? And not just seniors, who make up a massive proportion of non-presidential year turnout. Married women too. And guess how married women vote?
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So Republicans, in their zeal to disenfranchise brown and young people, have created a voter ID law that solves a non-existent problem and subsequently disenfranchises two of their most important base groups.
We knew the GOP was stupid. This notches it up to a whole new level.
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... and their drivers license and voters registration card names do not match.
Jim Wright, the former speaker of the House (mentioned up in the OP) is a Texan.
The know exactly hat the are doing.
They know they can no longer win by only stirring up hatred so as to con their own voters into voting against their own interests.
They know the can only win by cheating.
They know they only control the House by gerrymandering, since most Americans voted for Democratic Congressional candidates, so they now are working to gerrymander the Senate (by repealing the 17th Amendment and appointing Senators by gerrymandered statr legislatures), and presidential electors (by selecting them by gerrymandered Congressional Districts, and by selectively using proportional elector selection in blue leaning states, and winner-take-all in red states).
And by voter suppression.
They not only know what they are doing, but the only reason there is a run-off in the VA AG race is because Republican voter suppression.
And Republican hopes in that runoff depend on not counting 13,000 legitimate provisional ballots.
