Obama fighting back against war on voting

[mfcorey1]

By this spring, the Obama re-election campaign will mount what Mr. Bauer called an unprecedented "voter protection" effort, fielding thousands of volunteers in battleground states to help navigate new election laws, months earlier than past efforts.

"We will look at what the state has done, look for ways to counter it, through litigation sometimes, through administrative interpretation sometimes. But beyond that, you have to have a program that actually goes out and shows voters what they need to do," a senior Obama campaign official said. <...>

More than 30 states have changed voter laws since 2008, including seven that added requirements that voters show photo identification at their polling places. Republicans say limits on early voting are needed to cut the administrative costs of elections, and new I.D. requirements are necessary to defend polling places from fraud.

Democrats say both types of rules are aimed at suppressing their vote. The Obama campaign was adept in 2008 at bringing first-time voters to the polls during early voting periods, and groups it's now targeting—students, the elderly and the poor—are the most likely to not have a government-issued photo I.D.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/02/1032459/-Obama-fighting-back-against-war-onvoting?via=blog_1

[pnwmom]

1. Great news! I'm glad they're getting ahead on this. n/t

[tblue]

5. Ahead? This crap has been going on a long, long time.

I thought they'd get after it as soon as we had Dems in the WH and leading Congress. Only now it's become an issue? Hmmm..... Next year is 2012... Wonder why it matters now.... :freak:

[Firebrand Gary]

2. This is good news.

[msongs]

3. nice to hear but why wait until spring? nt

[tblue]

4. He sure as hell better

if he wants to win. But, even more important, if he wants to live in a democracy. I'm not even sure if we are one anymore.

[DCKit]

6. "Obama puts Holder to Work".... stunning headline.

In the meantime, the guys who destroyed the worlds economic systems are still free ranging and doing more of the same.

Too big to fail, indeed.

[Ship of Fools]

7. Too little too late, I fear.

I believe it was in Wisconsin (?) where they ran a voting dry run. The confusion was pretty intense among the volunteer
voters and poll sitters and it basically kind of came to a standstill.

No democracy anymore. I think we're going down pretty fast, at this point.

Good gawds, what a way to wake up this morning.

[mfcorey1]

8. Never too late.