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South Carolina

Shagman

(135 posts) Wed Dec 28, 2011, 12:22 PM Dec 2011

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voter suppression overturned

Yay. Turns out Republicans can't win unless they cheat.

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Turns out Republicans can't win unless they cheat. no doubt but what happened? leftyohiolib Dec 2011 #1

typical story.... Shagman Dec 2011 #2

leftyohiolib

(5,917 posts)

1. Turns out Republicans can't win unless they cheat. no doubt but what happened?

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Wed Dec 28, 2011, 12:36 PM

Dec 2011

Shagman

(135 posts)

2. typical story....

Reply to leftyohiolib (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 29, 2011, 01:32 PM

Dec 2011

Conservative governor and legislature passed a law requiring voter ID, ostensibly as protection against "voter fraud," despite there being no evidence at all of fraud. The real fraud is that people who don't have picture IDs--students, elderly, poor--tend to vote Democratic, so the effective result of the law is to suppress turnout for Democrats.

Because of our, ah, less than stellar record on civil rights, South Carolina has to submit laws that affect voting to the US Department of Justice for review. DOJ completely invalidated the law.

Now if we can just get rid of those electronic voting machines, we might have a shot at fair elections.

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