Stephanie MIller just discussed this: The GOP War on Voting,,,,Scary stuff

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Please share everywhere!!!!

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gop-war-on-voting-20110830

As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots. "What has happened this year is the most significant setback to voting rights in this country in a century," says Judith Browne-Dianis, who monitors barriers to voting as co-director of the Advancement Project, a civil rights organization based in Washington,

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1. ALEC policies being passed by state legislators.

ALEC is the rich buying state legislators

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2. It doesn't appear

the DoJ is too upset over it either. Nothing Bold going on there.