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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

The first time I can recall these tactics were deployed was back in 2000 in Florida. Jeb Bush, the Governor (and brother of Bush the Dumber) systematically went through the rolls striking out lots of voters, who tended to be from minority communities and vote Dem.

In the washout, Bush the Dumber scraped through in Florida by a tiny margin, and clawed his way into the White House. We're all familiar with the succession of disasters that followed that less than happy choice. It seems the lesson isn't lost on the Right and they're out to repeat the process.

Just think what a saner different world we might be enjoying without 8 years of Bush disasters. Does anyone seriously want to go back there?

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

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The demographics are against them, they will be on the wrong side of history and wilt if they don't stop minorities and the poor from voting.

Got news for all of you. Those "poor" have photo ID cards. Its a requirement when signing up for any type of benefits from the state. This is an argument that only politicians are having.

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ORIGINAL: submittous

Nice editing, but the sort of stuff they are doing is getting local laws passed that require things like a street address on the photo ID and/or a phone number etc. Not seeing that there is an ongoing program to get fewer poor, unemployed, homeless etc people voting would be either very naive or just disingenuous.

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A Wisconsin official has discouraged state workers from volunteering information about free IDs available under a controversial voter identification law that critics complain is designed to suppress votes, a memo leaked on Wednesday showed.

The memo, provided to the press by Democratic State Senator Jon Erpenbach, was likely to fan concerns among critics of the Republican-backed law that it aimed to suppress votes of thousands of otherwise eligible Wisconsin voters.

In the memo, a top aide in the state transportation department told staffers in the motor vehicle department, which is responsible for issuing the free IDs, to "refrain from offering" them to customers who do not specifically ask for them.

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Krieser, who confirmed the authenticity of the memo, said he was simply trying to make sure DMV employees honored the intent of lawmakers who passed the law, which does not obligate DMV workers to tell applicants they are entitled to a free ID if they plan to use it to vote.

"The DMV is applying the voter ID law that the legislature provided to it," Krieser told Reuters.

"It says the customer has to request it. So we've taken the strict reading of the statute and that's how we've implemented it. That's all that the memo was getting at."

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle

But isn't that the beauty of their tactic. You need an ID to vote, and you can get one for free BUT we're not going to even tell you about it when you're standing at the counter talking to a DMV employee.