Republicans know that the only way they can win elections is by cheating. They are getting this cheating down to a system. One of their main tricks this year will be the ALEC written “voter-id laws.”  Everyone knows that this is a solution looking for a problem, fueled by a media that echoes ALEC talking points to a poorly informed electorate.

What a bunch of gutless cowards. And frankly, what a bunch of traitors to democracy.

My own thought is that this will be such an overreach that there will be a blowback in the form of national voter registration laws.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120221/NEWS01/702229985#final-effort-to-kill-voter-id-bill

LINCOLN — More than 50 opponents of a bill that would require voters to show identification at the polls crowded a podium Tuesday in the Capitol Rotunda in a final effort to urge senators to oppose the bill, but its supporters aren’t backing down.

Representatives for the League of Women Voters of Nebraska, the Nebraska Association of County Officials, the Douglas County Board, the NAACP and AARP Nebraska said voter ID fraud is not a problem in Nebraska.

They reiterated a phrase they’ve used since they began fighting the bill: “This is a solution looking for a problem.”

They also said that the legislation would make it harder for youths, the elderly, minorities and people with disabilities to vote and that Legislative Bill 239 would be costly for counties to implement.

In Nebraska, this will basically hurt voting in the Omaha and Lincoln areas is my guess.