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Conservative Judge Strikes Down Texas Republicans’ Racist Voter Suppression Law
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/conservative-judge-strikes-down-texas-republicans-racist-voter-suppression-law/The Republican Party can hear the sound of their death knell. As Americans turn against the GOP establishment in greater numbers, conservative lawmakers across the country are turning to any scheme or trickery they can pull off in a desperate attempt to tilt the odds back into their favor.
Their favorite strategies are restricting voting rights and gerrymandering voter districts. While we can’t do anything about the gerrymandering until the next U.S. Census, judges and activists are striking back against voter ID laws. Disguised over sudden concerns of all the “voter fraud” that the Republicans themselves are perpetrating, these laws make it harder for young people, blacks, Latinos, and the elderly to vote by restricting what kinds of ID they can use to exercise their voting rights- even though the voter fraud the GOP is so worried about doesn’t exist.
Their favorite strategies are restricting voting rights and gerrymandering voter districts. While we can’t do anything about the gerrymandering until the next U.S. Census, judges and activists are striking back against voter ID laws. Disguised over sudden concerns of all the “voter fraud” that the Republicans themselves are perpetrating, these laws make it harder for young people, blacks, Latinos, and the elderly to vote by restricting what kinds of ID they can use to exercise their voting rights- even though the voter fraud the GOP is so worried about doesn’t exist.
