The Politics Behind New Voter ID Laws

[DearAbby]

Voters going to the polls next year — and even some this year — will encounter a lot of new rules. Photo ID requirements and fewer options for early voting are among the biggest changes.

They're part of a wave of new laws enacted by Republican-controlled legislatures this year. Supporters say the rules are needed to ensure honest elections.

But Democrats say it's part of a concerted GOP campaign to suppress the vote. They say minorities, students, the poor and disabled — those most likely to vote Democratic — will be hurt the most.

Seven states so far this year have enacted new laws requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls. Ohio and Pennsylvania are considering similar requirements, and several other states already have them on the books.



More: http://www.npr.org/2011/07/18/138160440/the-politics-behind-new-voter-id-laws

[ananda]

1. Meet the new Jim Crow.

nt

[DearAbby]

2. An Old Fashioned Idea with a modern twist.

[Botany]

3. In Ohio the new voter I.D. law is being " promoted as ....

.... stopping people from voting twice," something that very rarely if at all happens. The fact is
it impossible to do that now in Ohio. Because once you have voted @ your precinct that is it and if
you want to go to another precinct that vote will not be counted or if you register for an absentee
ballot and do not use it you have to vote a provisional ballot and it will not be counted if the absentee
has been used.

Bottom line you can't vote twice in Ohio and this is just a voter suppression measure end of story.

[Kolesar]

4. This is the issue that DU was founded on

elections