Juan Williams of Fox News Criticises Republican Voter Suppression, a Reminder of Jim Crow
Opinion: GOP seeks to block the vote
By Juan Williams – The Hill 10/17/11
Politics is not Patty Cakes. Everyone plays to win. Generations of political professionals have pushed the rules to the brink with new schemes for raising money, spreading rumors, running negative ads and controlling the press.
But as the 2012 elections come into view, even cruel, old political cynics see something beyond the edge; something frightening.
With a rising number of Hispanic and black voters pushing into the electorate — putting Republicans at a bigger
Koch Brothers Pay for Voter Suppression
| Block the Vote: How the Koch-Backed American Legislative Exchange Council Aims to Keep You from Votinghttp://blog.aflcio.org/2011/10/17/block-the-vote-how-the-koch-backed-american-legislative-exchange-council-aims-to-keep-you-from-voting/ by Adele Stan, Oct 17, 2011 |
Across the country, voters in a number of states will face obstacles to casting ballots in the 2012 elections, in large part because of model legislation drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the organization backed by, among others, billionaires Charles and David Koch. It was ALEC’s draft legislation that inspired a spate of recently passed voter ID laws that, if allowed to stand, are expected to marginalize the impact of students and people of color at the polls in Texas, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Tennessee and Kansas. (Under
Summary of Voter Suppression by Republicans
By Tait Militana CQ Roll Call Staff Oct. 20, 2011
Sen. Michael Bennet is leading the Democratic charge against new voter identification laws in several states. Bennet and 15 other Senators are asking the Department of Justice to ensure that these measures do not disenfranchise voters.
- Congressional Democrats are warning that stricter voter identification laws sweeping through state legislatures could suppress voters in the 2012 elections.
At least 34 states have introduced legislation, with varying degrees of restrictiveness, that would require voters to display identification at the polls before they are given a ballot. Some of these laws require voters to produce