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The Obama campaign continues its fight against voter suppression. There are 22 new laws in 17 states that will restrict voting in November — among them 10 states with laws requiring voters to bring a photo ID in order to vote. A new report by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University takes a look at just how hard it can be for a voter with a photo ID to get one.
Critics say these voting laws unfairly target minority, poor, and older voters. Despite studies finding that a person is more likely to be struck by lightning than to commit voter fraud, Republican state legislatures continue to push these laws through.
The latest state is Ohio, where Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal spent yesterday campaigning.
The Obama campaign, along with the Democratic National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party, have filed a lawsuit this week against Ohio's new law that limits in-person early voting for most of the state's voters the three days prior to the election.
The Obama campaign calls the new law unconstitutional.
Ohio is one of 32 states that allows voters to vote in-person at a polling station before election day. In 2008, nearly 100,000 Ohioans voted in-person during the three days before the election.
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Oh yeah and I'm sure that the Democrats have never tried to make election go in their favor through unjust laws, gerrymandering, deceitful campaigning, etc.
Think for yourself and abandon the bipartisan system, it's torn our country apart and made working together impossible, the people have no power now.
Acorn, that Obama favored and previouslyfeerally financial supported community organizing enterpise has been stopped in its tracks from violating the sanctity of the vote i their fradulant voter registration and turn out the vote drives of the past.
Now, the same Attorney General Eric Holder that refused to allow a deputy attorneys in his department from filing charges against the identified members of the Black Panthers in 2008 national election standing outside the polling places on Election Day in Philly (City of Brotherly Love?) swinging pick ax handles and chanting "a black man is going to be elected today" is suing the Secretary of States of a dozen states for trying to protect the sanctity of the votes in this election.
The Obama administration fought tooth and nail to keep the state of Florida from cross checking their voter registration rolls against the Homeland Security Department's non citizen lists, but they lost in Federal Court. Now more states are lining up to get their access to that list to aid them in removing the felons, non-citizens, and dead off their voting rolls. And this election, there will be no intimidation, in the streets or in the courts. The forces of good are organized and motivated. This clown Holder and his Boss are headed back to Chicago after this election.