[lbo-talk] Making it harder to vote

[Janice Cox]

I am too on this one.  The current voter id effort has been going on for some 
time, since 2001 at least, and is primarily pushed by Republicans based on 
fueling fears of voter fraud, which isn't really an issue with "in person" 
voting.  Courts have generally upheld the voter id requirements, however, 
including the Supreme Court on Indiana's very restrictive requirement.

http://www.aclu.org/voting-rights/aclu-disappointed-supreme-courts-voter-id-decision

http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=16602

http://archive.fairvote.org/?page=215

Jan

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From: "wrobert at uci.edu" <wrobert at uci.edu>
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Sent: Thu, March 24, 2011 11:34:37 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Making it harder to vote

This is one of those occasional points where I'm a bit disappointed in
Carrol.  You're absolutely right to see the attempt to disenfranchise poor
and working people as part of a larger offensive against organized and
unorganized working class power.  Just as significantly, it legitimates
itself (the act of disenfranchising voters) through the logic of white
supremacy and reinforces that logic (It's difficult to avoid the logic of
Fox's anti-blackness in its continual rerunning the footage of the
so-called New Black Panthers.)  robert wood
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> Even if you are indifferent to the electoral process, you shouldn't be
> indifferent to others being denied their right to vote if they wish to do
> so.  And I doubt that when these Buckeye reactionaries are finished
> busting
> unions and disenfranchising nearly a million potential voters they will
> call
> it a day and rest on their laurels.
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