"Democratic voter turnout was 285 percent worse in states with new voter ID laws."

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15. Oh really?

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Got any actual facts to back that vacuous opinion up? And what would YOU have done better?

The voter ID laws are part of the ALEC plan. Democrats and activists who actually pay attention saw this coming miles off. The only way to fight them is to control the statehouse. The reason we got them in NC? Democrats were too precious to actually show up to vote in 2010, a redistricting year, and the GOP won the statehouse for the first time in 100 years. They then gerrymandered the fuck out of the state, so the next election, 51% of voters chose a Democratic state rep, but the GOP ended up with a veto-proof majority. AND the Governor is GOP too.

The black leadership in my state has been ON IT from go. Rev. Dr. Barber and Moral Mondays. And white people have been working their asses off too. This is not JUST a black thing. NAACP also brought multiple lawsuits, a few that are now at the SC level and resulted in re-drawing of some of the district boundaries. The ID laws were challenged too, semi-successfully. You should Google that, then tell me how their work is not up to your high, high standards

And you should do more than "hope" there will be a grassroots push. You should damn well DO something, since you feel free to stand in almighty judgement of the rest of us doing bloody battle down here in the trenches. Send money, at lest. Jeeze....