Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announces new voter suppression plan

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, has decided that having an 87 percent voter turnout in his state in the 2012 elections was too high, so he now hopes to cut that number down with new voter suppression laws.
On Monday, Walker announced that he wants to end same-day voter registration, which allowed 17 percent more people to vote on Election Day, most of them young people who generally tend to vote for Democrats.

Walker believes same-day voter registration is a burden on poll workers so it should be outlawed.

The Daily Kos wrote:

“Excuse us for our disbelief that Gov. Walker supports this policy because he’s interested in helping workers. No state executive in the country, or even in recent memory, has been more committed to attacking workers’ rights and collective bargaining, not to mention the wages, benefits, and pensions of public employees. Here’s the real reason Walker is seeking to end the 36-year practice: it helps people vote.”

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13443567-gov-scott-walker-announces-new-voter-suppression-plan

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1. North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory defended the monster voter suppression law that he signed in Aug

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory defended the monster voter suppression law that he signed in August. “First of all, we didn’t shorten early voting, we compacted the calendar,” McCrory said. But, it seems that the difference is merely in the wording: while the early voting hours must stay the same, the new law still takes “away seven calendar days that were previously available to North Carolina voters to head to the polls.” The bill additionally requires photo voter ID, eliminates same-day registration and eliminates pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds.

Ohio lawmakers are fast-tracking a proposal to limit early voting in the state, particularly the five-day period that allows a person to simultaneously register to vote and vote in person. “The five-day window offers major benefits to many voters, including those with disabilities or inflexible work schedules, and there is little evidence that it has created any major problems,” said ACLU of Ohio Director of Communications and Public Policy Mike Brickner. “SB 238 throws away these critical, nonpartisan benefits for no good reason.”

In keeping with the anti-early voting trend, Wisconsin Republicans are pushing AB 54, a bill to end early voting on the weekend. The bill passed the Assembly last week. Sen. Glenn Grothman, who supports the measure, told MSNBC that there are already plenty of options to vote. But, election administrators in the state think otherwise.

http://www.projectvote.org/blog/2013/11/partisans-attack-early-voting-for-no-good-reason/

Sometimes you have to watch what the Main Stream Media is not talking about, Voter Suppression is one subject they have dropped like a hot piece of Coal!

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2. Soon only the landed aristocracy will be allowed to vote. The old, white, Republican kind. Give it

25 years. And our DEM Establishment remains asleep at the switch the entire time, my guess. Can't be seen as "too partisan," y'know?!?!