Winning By Hook, Crook, Or Voter Suppression

From Roxanne at Rox Populi (voter suppression as we've seen in the last few cycles also includes Republican workers manning polling stations to issue challenges that a person is not eligible to vote, deliberately telling folks to vote at the wrong place, jamming phone lines, and so much more:

In normal times, I wouldn't be too worried about our courts upholding nasty voter suppression legislation. But with the current make-up of the Supremes, we shouldn't be overly enthusiastic about their will to uphold the most basic tenets of the Constitution:

One of the cornerstones of the Republican Party’s strategy for winning elections these days is voter suppression, intentionally putting up barriers between eligible voters and the ballot box. The House of Representatives took a shameful step in this direction yesterday, voting largely along party lines for onerous new voter ID requirements. Laws of this kind are unconstitutional, as an array of courts have already held, and profoundly undemocratic. The Senate should not go along with this cynical, un-American electoral strategy.

The bill the House passed yesterday would require people to show photo ID to vote in 2008.

Starting in 2010, that photo ID would have to be something like a passport, or an enhanced kind of driver’s license or non-driver’s identification, containing proof of citizenship. This is a level of identification that many Americans simply do not have.

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