Republicans’ Voter Suppression Project Grinds On

[Purveyor]

By Jonathan Alter Jun 21, 2012 7:30 PM ET

Mitt Romney was in Michigan this week trying to make it competitive in the presidential election. It’s a steep climb for the native Michigander because President Barack Obama’s auto bailout, which Romney opposed, has helped bring the state’s unemployment rate down by 5.7 points since 2009.

But Romney has a strong ally there: legislation being pushed this month by his fellow Republicans aimed at preventing the nonpartisan League of Women Voters from undertaking the voter-registration drives it has sponsored for nearly a century.

Across the country, the Republicans’ carefully orchestrated plan to make voting harder -- let’s call it the Voter Suppression Project -- may keep just enough young people and minorities from the polls that Republicans will soon be in charge of all three branches of the federal government.

Yes, both sides try to change voting laws to favor their team. The 1993 “motor voter” law that made voting more convenient by extending registration to the Department of Motor Vehicles helped mostly Democrats. That was at least in the long American tradition of expanding the franchise.

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[montanacowboy]

1. Yes, both sides try to change voting laws to favor their team???

there goes Alter again, both sides do it

Like Republicons don't register by motor voter? Only Dems get driver's licenses?

Stuff it Alter - you and all the other "both sides do it" fucking assholes