Republican war on Democratic voters continues

Go read Ari Berman’s article at Rolling Stone.

This year there have been significantly more attempts to disallow Democratic constituencies like inner-city residents and college students from voting through the passage of stringent voter ID laws and the reduction of early voting periods. This is all done in the name of preventing voter fraud, of course, despite this evidence:

A major probe by the Justice Department between 2002 and 2007 failed to prosecute a single person for going to the polls and impersonating an eligible voter, which the anti-fraud laws are supposedly designed to stop. Out of the 300 million votes cast in that period, federal prosecutors convicted only 86 people for voter fraud – and many of the cases involved immigrants and former felons who were simply unaware of their ineligibility. A much-hyped investigation in Wisconsin, meanwhile, led to the prosecution of only .0007 percent of the local electorate for alleged voter fraud.

And we know what happened to ACORN.

If the 2012 election is close, it’s entirely possible Democrats could lose because of these actions.

See my previous posts about fraudulent vote fraud hysteria here.