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| Only wants Republicans to vote. |
There isn't anything wrong with that. But there's plenty wrong with restricting the kind of ID that's acceptable. And that's exactly why these voter suppression laws are being passed in the guise of fraud prevention. Anti-worker politicians want to take the vote away from their political enemies -- students, minorities, veterans, seniors and poor people.
An editorial about Florida's new voter suppression law in the Pensacola News Journal shows what we mean:
...credit Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning with the most aggressively stupid enforcement of the new law.
According to The New York Times, in Okaloosa County, over the three-day Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend in January, the county's NAACP branch conducted a voter registration drive. In accordance with the law, the Times reported, in registering two voters on that Sunday the group noted the exact time of registration: 2:15 p.m. and 2:20 p.m., respectively.
The Supervisor of Elections office was closed on Monday; on Tuesday, the group delivered the registrations to meet the law's requirement that they be turned in within 48 hours, which we assume most people would take to mean two days.
Well, the registrations were stamped as received at 3:53 p.m. This did not escape the eagle eye of Browning's office, ever vigilant to protect Floridians from voter fraud
So the NAACP got a warning letter from Browning informing them that his office had noticed the flagrant flaunting of the law: "In your case, although the supervisor's office was closed on Monday, Jan. 16, the 48-hour period ended for the two applications on Jan. 17 at 2:15 p.m. and 2:20 p.m.; therefore the applications were untimely under the law."Yup, that's what Florida taxpayer dollars are paying for. And that's why 81,471 fewer Florida citizens registered to vote than during the same time period four years ago.
