[net-gold] UNITED STATES: STATES: TENNESSEE : LAW : POLITICS: ELECTIONS AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS: VOTING : POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : BILLIONAIRES: Jim Cooper and Dick Durbin Blast Tennessee's New Voter ID Laws, Brought to You by Bill Ketron and the Koch Brothers: Vote of No Confidence
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- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:05:48 -0400 (EDT)
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UNITED STATES: STATES: TENNESSEE :
LAW : POLITICS: ELECTIONS AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS: VOTING :
POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
BILLIONAIRES:
Jim Cooper and Dick Durbin Blast Tennessee's New Voter ID Laws,
Brought to You by Bill Ketron and the Koch Brothers:
Vote of No Confidence
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Jim Cooper and Dick Durbin Blast Tennessee's New Voter ID Laws,
Brought to You by Bill Ketron and the Koch Brothers:
Vote of No Confidence
by Jonathan Meador
Nashville Scene
http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/jim-cooper-and-dick-
durbin-blast-tennessees-new-voter-id-laws-brought-to-you-by-
bill-ketron-and-the-koch-brothers/Content?oid=2631097
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3jommwy
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As chair of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil
Rights and Human Rights, Durbin called a hearing in Washington last week
to examine the recent rash of state laws limiting voter enfranchisement
laws enacted ostensibly to combat the hackneyed bogeyman that is voter
fraud. Durbin's appearance in Nashville comes on the heels of a letter he
sent to Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam on Sept. 8, in which the Illinois
Democrat took to task the state's new voter ID law that requires would-be
ballot casters to present government-issued identification. Opponents have
identified such measures as designed to reduce turnout among minority,
young, elderly, disabled, homeless and working-class electorates.
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At the roundtable, Durbin lambasted the law and compared it to a form of
poll tax.
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"There ought to be a conscious effort and a dedication of resources to
give people an easy way to establish their legality and legitimacy as
voters," Durbin said. "If this is a matter of you have to take off work,
as I understand it, and spend four hours waiting for photo IDs, I think
that kind of gets to the point where it creates a hardship [on people]."
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Cooper echoed the sentiment, expressing concern that the new law, which is
slated to go into effect next year, will not only result in widespread
disenfranchisement but will upset Tennessee's history of voting equity.
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"We are the state that had the Supreme Court case of Baker v. Carr, which
established for the first time in American history the 'one person, one
vote' principle," Cooper said. "We don't want to amend that and say 'one
person if you have a government-issued photo ID.' "
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But like similar voting restriction bills that have cropped up across the
nation, Tennessee's was born in the private sector.
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Signed by Haslam on June 13 of this year, the law, Senate Bill 16, was
introduced into the Tennessee legislature by Republican state Sen. Bill
Ketron. But its inspiration and basic structure were provided by scribes
within the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which acts as a
kind of model legislation factory for business interests eager to
influence state governments and their respective lawmakers. The
organization made headlines last year for its role in drafting Arizona's
controversial anti-immigrant prison law, with a little help from corporate
beneficiaries such as Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America.
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"They have played a major role [in crafting voter ID legislation]," Durbin
says of ALEC. "Of course, their major financiers are the Koch brothers,
who come to this conversation with a clear political agenda. And if you
look at the money behind ALEC, you'll find that it's the Koch brothers.
You'll also find that the voters most affected by these laws tend to vote
Democratic. Add 'em up."
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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