The concerted Republican tactics to suppress voting has been noted and commented on.
Only an Act of Congress will correct the problems, unlikely with a Republican-controlled House.

When Republilcans can't legitimately win elections, tyrannical methods and thuggery are their resort, surely to escalate by the sore losers.     


From: Too Informed To Vote Republican

Interesting article in yesterday's NY Times.

"But the coordinated efforts across the country to intimidate and suppress the votes of racial and ethnic minorities are far more consequential. Hostile officials regularly deploy the language of “fraud” and “corruption” to justify their efforts much as their counterparts at the end of the 19th century did to fully disenfranchise black voters.

Although our present-day tactics are state-issued IDs, state-mandated harassment of immigrants and voter-roll purges, these are not a far cry from the poll taxes, literacy tests, residency requirements and discretionary power of local registrars that composed the political racism of a century ago. That’s not even counting the hours-long lines many minority voters confronted"

Political Racism in the Age of Obama

By STEVEN HAHN

Published: November 10, 2012

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/opinion/sunday/political-racism-in-the-age-of-obama.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0