Let's get serious about voter suppression (Leonard Pitts)

[struggle4progress]

By Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald columnist
July 18, 2012 4:45 p.m.

... So, while the party posits these laws as a way of fighting voter fraud - a nearly non-existent problem - it takes little imagination to divine a more sinister intent. Sometimes, you don't need imagination at all.

As in Michigan GOP lawmaker John Pappageorge's 2004 observation that his party needed to "suppress the Detroit vote" to have any hope of electoral success. Detroit is 82% black.

Then there's the GOP campaign guru in Maryland who was convicted of ordering Election Day robo-calls to black households telling them not to bother voting because Barack Obama had the election sewn up.

And let us not forget Pennsylvania Republican Mike Turzai, who recently crowed how the state's Voter ID law would ensure victory for Mitt Romney ...

http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/lets-get-serious-about-voter-suppression-4n65iom-162932216.html

[oldhippydude]

1. DOJ---> ALEC---> RICO

conspiracy to deny voting rights