{"id":6183,"date":"2011-10-23T00:50:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T07:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/23\/a-new-low-in-republican-voter-suppression\/"},"modified":"2011-10-23T00:50:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T07:50:17","slug":"a-new-low-in-republican-voter-suppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/23\/a-new-low-in-republican-voter-suppression\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Low in Republican Voter Suppression"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of you are probably aware that, in states where Republicans control state government, they are rolling out almost identical Voter ID laws, financed by the Koch Brothers and other corporate criminals.  Their intent is to make it harder for people who are most likely to vote for Democrats to vote.  But Republicans have now hit a new in voter suppression: trying to enforce voter ID laws in a place that does not even have voter ID laws.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"23vote\"<\/a>Failed Massachusetts GOP candidate and anti-vote operative Tom Weaver recently set up a camera at a polling station in New Bedford, Massachusetts in hopes of catching a plethora of poll violations. He caught nothing, except himself and his colleague Ralph Zazula sitting behind the desk at the polling place with a sign, \u201cShow I.D. To Vote<\/a>.\u201d On the sign, Weaver had \u201cRules\u201d: including, \u201cbe polite,\u201d \u201chave valid government issued ID,\u201d and \u201cvoluntary compliance.\u201d Telling Elections Commission Chairman Maria Tomasia that they had permission to be there (they didn\u2019t), Weaver proceeded to tape himself suppressing the vote. <\/p>\n

Though the \u201crules\u201d said \u201cvoluntary compliance,\u201d New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang (D) said Weaver\u2019s act was tantamount to \u201cvoter suppression\u201d and he demanded an investigation<\/strong>. The Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin took a look, and informed Tomasia the sign was indeed \u201cillegal\u201d… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow also covered this story.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I have to wonder how many voters saw these cretins and their sign, realized that they did not have a voter ID with them, and went home.  How many votes did the Republican Party steal  at that election?  Weaver and Zazula should be criminally charged.  Remember, when Republicans claim fraud, the only election fraud that can be demonstrated is Republicans defrauding voters.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of you are probably aware that, in states where Republicans control state government, they are rolling out almost identical Voter ID laws, financed by the Koch Brothers and other corporate criminals.  Their intent is to make it harder for people who are most likely to vote for Democrats to vote.  But Republicans have now […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}