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Voting Rights & Elections
State governments across the country enacted an array of new laws that could make it significantly harder for as many as 5 million eligible Americans to vote. Some states require voters to show government-issued photo identification, often of a type that as many as one in ten voters do not have. Other states have cut back on early voting, a hugely popular innovation used by millions of Americans. Still others made it much more difficult for citizens to register to vote, a prerequisite for voting. These new restrictions fall most heavily on young, minority, elderly, and low-income voters, as well as on voters with disabilities. This wave of changes may sharply tilt the political terrain for the 2012 election and beyond. [Read More]
Pennsylvania’s Voter ID by the Numbers
Sara Mullen, ACLU – Pennsylvania is pursuing a restrictive photo voter ID law, despite the facts that: There have been no investigations or prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania; • They are unaware of any incidents of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania and do not have direct personal knowledge of in-person voter fraud elsewhere; •Pennsylvania will not offer any evidence or argument that in-person voter fraud is likely to occur in November 2012 in the absence of the photo ID law. Another key number? The number of registered Pennsylvania voters who are at risk of being disenfranchised because they do not have state-issued ID: more than ONE MILLION. [Read More]
What happens if GOP’s voter suppression works?
Harold Mayerson, Washington Post, Opinion – Instances of voter fraud are almost nonexistent, but the right-wing media’s harping on the issue has given Republican politicians cover to push these laws through statehouse after statehouse. The laws’ intent, however, is entirely political: By creating restrictions that disproportionately impact minorities, they’re supposed to bolster Republican prospects. [Read More]
