Republicans are so afraid that they can't win elections that they are making laws that will stop people from registering to vote by making previous practices that have been legal for decades...illegal.
Such as this; The Republican Supervisor of Elections in Volusia County, FL who was "sick to her stomach" after being forced to turn in a high school teacher to law enforcement for registering students to vote now that Florida has criminalized such activities.
And this; That is the same new FL GOP law which has led the non-partisan League of Women Voters to cancel all voter registration in the state of Florida, after doing so for the past 72 years, because the potential penalties for doing so have simply become too onerous.
GOP COWARDS
Since 2010 when the Tea Party got elected to congress and many states have been taken over by them, there has been a steady attack on voters rights. All under the guise of preventing "voter fraud". Of which there have been scant proof of any fraud.
Bills requiring photo ID to vote have been introduced in 34 states this year alone. I know that in my state of Ohio several changes have been made to keep people that would probably vote for democrats from voting by making it harder to get to the voting place. Ohio also stopped early voting on the friday before the election. It could back-fire because some of us have been working harder to get more people to vote. With great success I might add.
And it's proof that elections have consequences. The United States has been steadily tearing down barriers to voting over the past few decades, but much of that progress has been undone in the brief time since the 2010 elections. It surely cannot be a coincidence that about a quarter of the bills have been introduced by newly elected Republicans. If newly elected legislators cannot find solutions to their constituents economic problems, they can always do the next best thing: making it harder for their constituents to vote them out of office.
What won't surprise me is if there aren't voting machine or ballot counting problems. It also wouldn't surprise me if on this election or in the 2012 election when things aren't going the conservative way there will be a late hour shift away from the democrats and liberals winning, to a stunning eleventh hour conservative victory in most of the issues and candidates.
They did it before in 2000 and 2004 and now they have had a few years to learn how better to hack the voting machines.
Tea Party member sitting on his throne, calling about why his food stamps, welfare and his SS check is late.
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