Will Republicans succeed with Jim Crow lite laws?
Old Southern political bosses of the Jim Crow era would have winked with delight at the ingenious ploys of their latter-day successors in the art of voter suppression.
Republican legislators in dozens of states have devised a number of schemes to deny the rights of hundreds of thousands of Americans to vote.
Many have succeeded, passing laws that would compel voters to present new forms of identification that many will find difficult to obtain, new fees, and confusing new rules that voters must navigate or risk having their vote disqualified.
A July report by the Brennan Center for Justice found that nearly 500,000 voters in 10 states with such ramped-up voter identification laws will struggle to meet the new standards.
Most of the disenfranchised will be African American, Hispanic, poor, rural or elderly.
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