Election 2012

Voter ID Laws are Resurrecting the Spirit of Jim Crow

My Monday column was a rundown of the most insidious voter purges and Voter ID laws coming from various Republican governors. The lede is deadly serious.

If President Obama loses in November, it won't be Super PACs or Republican lies about his record that will defeat him. It won't be fundraising or advertising or punditry. If President Obama loses, it will almost certainly be due to Jim Crow style voter suppression and disenfranchisement. And no one is really talking about it.

Specifically, I'm referring to the Republican plot to make voting nearly impossible for low-income, working class Americans, and, therefore, disenfranchising scores of Democratic voters. There are two concurrent policies in action here: Voter ID laws and voter registration purges. Continue reading here...