The GOP may be able to prevent many millions of Americans, largely Democrats, from voting — potentially affecting 171 electoral votes. Right wing efforts to suppress low-income and minority voting, because they support the Democrats.
It is the most Retrograde and Mentally Backward Racist States, dominated by Republican Legislatures that use State Laws to suppress voters and hinder Minorities from voting.
POLITICO.COM
Opinion: GOP's voter suppression
By HERMAN SCHWARTZ
Herman Schwartz is a constitutional law professor at the American University Washington College of Law.
November 3, 2011
Opinion: GOP's voter suppression
Some excerpts :
Early voting: U.S. elections are traditionally held on Tuesdays — an obstacle for many low-income working people, few of whom are given time off to vote. So 33 states and the District of Columbia now allow early voting — including on Saturday and Sunday. Many Americans, particularly minorities, have taken advantage of this.
In 2008, for example, black voters accounted for 13 percent of the total turnout but for 22 percent of the early votes and 31 percent of Sunday voters. Latinos were 7.4 percent overall — but 22 percent of the final-Sunday voters.
In North Carolina, which Obama won narrowly in 2008, more than half of the African-American vote was cast early, compared with 40 percent of the white vote. This pattern was repeated in 2010.
But it won’t be in 2012. GOP state legislatures in Florida, Wisconsin, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio and West Virginia have cut the number of early voting days. Florida, under Gov. Rick Scott, who has been a leader in the voter-suppression effort, reduced early voting from 14 days to eight. In Ohio, it went from 35 days to 16.
Florida and other states have also eliminated voting on the Sunday before election — when so much minority voting takes place. Ohio ended all Sunday voting.
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