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- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:51:05 -0400 (EDT)
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Voter ID Laws Could Swing States
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Voter ID Laws Could Swing States
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS
7/30/12 4:41 AM EDT
Politico
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/79103.html?hp=f1
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At least 5 million voters, predominantly young and from minority groups
sympathetic to President Barack Obama, could be affected by an
unprecedented flurry of new legislation by Republican governors and
GOP-led legislatures to change or restrict voting rights by Election Day
2012.
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Supporters of these new laws spearheaded in six swing states, as well as
other less competitive ones argue they are just trying to stop voter
fraud and protect the integrity of the vote. But opponents, mainly
Democrats and Obamas campaign, which is closely monitoring the daily
warfare over the new laws, believe they are trying to change the face of
the electorate in a way that benefits the Republican candidate for
president.
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Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Virginia and Wisconsin, all viewed as
important states this fall, each have enacted stricter ID laws. Florida
and Ohio have cut back on early voting. And a whole host of other states
have passed new ID laws as well.
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As a result, millions of voters will find it much more difficult to vote
on Election Day in November some estimates, such as one from the Brennan
Center of Justice last fall, put the number of those affected nationwide
at more than 5 million. In Pennsylvania alone, the states Transportation
Department released figures showing that more than 750,000 registered
voters in the state 9.2 percent of voters there do not have the required
forms of ID to vote in November.
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Swing states are always much more likely to have these kinds of laws
restricting voting, said Wendy Weiser, director of Brennans Democracy
Program.
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The laws tend to disproportionately affect young voters and minorities
key Obama demographics so the new restrictions will have an outsize
impact on Democratic turnout. In Pennsylvania, for example, 18 percent of
Philadelphia residents, who voted overwhelmingly for Obama in 2008, dont
have adequate IDs to vote in 2012.
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Underscoring the measures racial overtones, U.S. Attorney General Eric
Holder had harsh words for the voter ID measures more generally, calling
them the equivalent of a poll tax at the NAACP conference in Houston
earlier this month.
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Swing states that have passed voter legislation have seen strong legal
pushback from Democrats and voting rights groups. For instance, the League
of Women Voters and Rock the Vote have filed lawsuits against a handful of
the stricter laws in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as other voting
provisions in Florida.
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Perhaps an even bigger complication than the laws themselves is that so
much of the voter legislation around the country is in flux, and could
still be by Election Day. Ongoing lawsuits are one factor in the
uncertainty; other states require pre-clearance before the laws
implementation from the Justice Department under the Voting Rights Act.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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