Longtime Republican consultant: if black people voted Republican, voter ID laws wouldn't happen

[KamaAina]

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/2/12774066/voter-id-laws-racist

If there was any remaining doubt that North Carolina’s voting restrictions — which require a photo ID to vote and limit early voting days — are about disenfranchising black people, recent comments by a top Republican consultant in the state should put that doubt to rest.

William Wan reported for the Washington Post:...
“Of course it’s political. Why else would you do it?” he said, explaining that Republicans, like any political party, want to protect their majority. While GOP lawmakers might have passed the law to suppress some voters, Wrenn said, that does not mean it was racist.

“Look, if African Americans voted overwhelmingly Republican, they would have kept early voting right where it was,” Wrenn said. “It wasn’t about discriminating against African Americans. They just ended up in the middle of it because they vote Democrat.”

This is as close to a smoking gun as anyone is going to get. Wrenn fully acknowledged that this is political and black people are being targeted, and rejected the other claim — voter fraud — that Republicans typically use to justify new voting restrictions.

[2naSalit]

1. And that's

the Gosh Darn truth!

[malaise]

2. So cheating is OK

Racist scumbags

[quaker bill]

6. actually it is "traditional"

the Dixiecrats invented it during reconstruction. They brought it with them when they switched to republican starting in the great depression and going to completion in 1968...

Tactics have had to change over time, once the literacy tests and poll tax were ruled unconstitutional, they restricted voter registration, sometimes with violence, when that became impossible, mass incarceration and revocation of civil rights were employed (and still are). In that this is proving inadequate (election of BHO as proof - to their minds), they start mucking about with voter ID and various other limitations in access to tip the balance.

The practice of minority voter suppression is traditional, the tactics just change from time to time to meet the legal environment.

[brush]

3. Well, duh! That's supposed to be news? They haven't fooled anyone with their ID crap.

[riversedge]

4. A Repug in WI basically admitted the same about the new voter restrictions.

[Quantess]

5. He thinks that makes it justifiable?

[dembotoz]

7. and water is wet

[UTUSN]

8. R#15 & K n/t