Voter Suppression

So Much For ‘Engaging’ with Minority Voters

Written by Bob Cesca

The day after the RNC released its report detailing how the party ought to engage with minority voters, this happened:

Yesterday, the Arkansas Senate passed — on an entirely party-line vote — a so-called voter ID law requiring voters to show photo identification before they can cast a ballot. The same voter suppression measure already passed the state House with all but one of the votes for the bill coming from Republicans.

ThinkProgress reminds us:

A Wisconsin study found that only 0.00023 percent of votes are the product of such fraud. So voter ID laws disenfranchise a large chunk of voters — between 2 and 9 percent, according to different reports on their effect — in order to prevent a virtually non-existent form of voter fraud.

Yes, the Republican Party is reaching out to minorities — reaching out and snatching their ballots away.