Josh Marshall: The Crackdown on Voting, Pt. 1

[babylonsister]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/07/the_crackdown_on_voting_pt_1.php?ref=fpblg

The Crackdown on Voting, Pt. 1
Josh Marshall | July 15, 2011, 8:11AM

As I wrote earlier, we're going to make the nationwide crackdown on voting one of the centerpieces of our 2012 campaign coverage. And here's a small but very illustrative part of the story. The new voting crackdown law in Florida is so restrictive that even the League of Women Voters (about as mainstream and establishment a group as you can get) has dropped its voter registration plans in the state. As Deirdre MacNabb, president of the Florida League of Women Voters, told TPM in a phone interview this week: "when we looked at the laws, we felt that this would put our thousands of volunteers across the state who have registered voters for 70 years in Florida at a grave disadvantage."

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/florida_league_of_women_voters_drops_registration.php?ref=fpb

TPMMuckraker
Florida League Of Women Voters Drops Registration Plan Over Restrictive Laws

[ananda]

1. A grave disadvantage just to register voters . . . .

That is just so sobering ....

[babylonsister]

2. .