Vet told Veterans' ID invalid for voting, others completely disenfranchised in first roll-out of Republican anti-voter law...
There were other similar stories Tuesday, during the first full roll-out of the Wisconsin GOP's new anti-voter law, passed disingenuously under the guise of curbing "voter fraud". And Tuesday's was just a tiny election. For example, this from Isthmus' The Daily Page...
Have a feeling we ain't seen nothing yet. There will be many more of these stories in the coming months. Unless something changes, this is likely to be a very ugly election year --- for the voters.
Legal and Constitutional challenges to these new laws around the country, as passed by Republican legislatures and governors in the wake of the 2010 election, are working their way through the courts on behalf of those who are likely to be disenfranchised by them. In Wisconsin, two different law suits --- one by the League of Women Voters of WI and another by the ACLU --- have already been filed.
Elsewhere, the GOP's new polling place Photo ID restriction law in South Carolina was recently rejected by the U.S. Dept. of Justice after it was found, according to the state's own statistics, to discriminate against minorities, a violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which requires a number of jurisdictions in the country with a history of racial discrimination to receive federal preclearance for all new election laws.
The state has vowed to appeal the DoJ's ruling. The section of the 47-year old Voting Rights Act requiring preclearance for new election laws in some 17 jurisdictions in the nation is also being challenged by opponents of the law who charge the law itself is discriminatory...against those jurisdictions. The VRA was renewed for another 25 years in 2006 by bi-partisan votes of 98 to 0 in the U.S. Senate and 390 to 33 in the Republican-controlled U.S. House. The renewal was signed by George W. Bush.
Source: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9139
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