The Republicans\u2019 plan is that if they can\u2019t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.<\/p>\n
The plan, long in the making and now well into its execution, is to raise great gobs of money\u2014in newly limitless amounts\u2014so that they and their allies could outspend the president\u2019s forces; and they would also place obstacles in the way of large swaths of citizens who traditionally support the Democrats and want to exercise their right to vote. The plan would disproportionately affect blacks, who were guaranteed the right to vote in 1870 by the Fifteenth Amendment; but then that right was negated by southern state legislatures; and after people marched, were beaten, and died in the civil rights movement, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Now various state legislatures are coming up with new ways to try once again to nullify that right\u2026.<\/p>\n
The Republicans have been making particularly strenuous efforts to tilt the outcomes\u2014in most of the \u201cswing states\u201d: Florida, Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin. The Republican leader of the House in Pennsylvania, previously considered a swing state, was careless enough to admit publicly that the state\u2019s strict new Voter ID law would assure a Romney victory in November. In fact a state document submitted in court offered no evidence of voter fraud. On September 18, Pennsylvania\u2019s supreme court sharply rebuked a lower court\u2019s approval of the law, questioning whether the law could be fairly applied by the time of the election. This battle continues despite the fact that the Romney campaign in mid-September suspended its efforts in Pennsylvania because polls show that Obama was substantially ahead. Even if the state\u2019s electoral votes are not in question the outcome could still decide whether a great many people will be allowed to vote in November, and could also affect the popular vote.<\/p>\n
Eight states have already passed Voter ID laws\u2014requiring a state-approved document with a photograph in order to register or vote, a form of identification that an estimated 11 percent or over 21 million of American citizens do not possess. But these laws are just part of an array of restrictions adopted to keep Democrats from voting. Some use other means to make registration difficult, or put strict limits on the number of days before the election that votes can be cast , or cut back the hours that polling places can stay open.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m seeing this theme at times \u2014 namely, that Republicans are creating obstacles for voters, especially if they can establish policies that could lessen the Democrat vote. Is this piece by Elizabeth Drew accurate? The Republicans\u2019 plan is that if they can\u2019t buy the 2012 election they will steal it. The plan, long in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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