Krugman: How The GOP Blocks the Vote
Paul Krugman of the New York Times highlights a long list of GOP efforts to disenfranchise Democrats
…Some
of these, like the actions reported in Nevada, involve dirty tricks.
For example, in 2002 the Republican Party in New Hampshire hired an
Idaho company to paralyze Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts by
jamming the party's phone banks.
But many
efforts involve the abuse of power. For example, Ohio's secretary of
state, a Republican, tried to use an archaic rule about paper quality
to invalidate thousands of new, heavily Democratic registrations.
That
attempt failed. But in Wisconsin, a Republican county executive insists
that this year, when everyone expects a record turnout, Milwaukee will
receive fewer ballots than it got in 2000 or 2002 – a recipe for chaos
at polling places serving urban, mainly Democratic voters.
And Florida is the site of naked efforts to suppress Democratic votes, and the votes of blacks in particular.
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