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Voter suppression? Intimidation?
No way, says Florida Republican Party Chairman Lenny Curry. He blasted Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson for criticizing the effort. Nelson, he said, “asks our public servants to ignore the threat to electoral integrity.”
But the “threat” is very nearly non-existent.
Tova Wang, an expert in election law, told U.S. News and World Report in April that the number of people who have been prosecuted successfully for voter fraud is “ridiculously low.”
A 2006 report from the Brennan Center For Justice at New York University School of Law found documented examples of voter fraud to be “extremely rare” and likened it to one’s chances of being killed by lightning.
The idea that voter fraud is epidemic stems from the occasional high profile exception and from stunts like GOP activist James O’Keefe’s sending some guy into a polling place to vote under the name of Attorney General Eric Holder.
But stunts and high profile exceptions do not disprove — nor even address — the statistical reality Wang and the Brennan Center describe.
The demographic trend lines are clearly against the Republican Party.
But rather than work to broaden the party’s appeal, some GOP leaders have chosen instead to narrow the other party’s base under the guise of addressing a problem that does not exist.
Thus, you get a campaign to gut the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Thus, you get restrictive new Voter ID laws.
Thus you get Florida (like New Mexico and Colorado) culling its voter rolls of noncitizens and somehow, apparently by sheer happenstance, targeting those most likely to vote for the other party.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/02/2829960/the-gop-demographics-and-voter.html
No way, says Florida Republican Party Chairman Lenny Curry. He blasted Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson for criticizing the effort. Nelson, he said, “asks our public servants to ignore the threat to electoral integrity.”
But the “threat” is very nearly non-existent.
Tova Wang, an expert in election law, told U.S. News and World Report in April that the number of people who have been prosecuted successfully for voter fraud is “ridiculously low.”
A 2006 report from the Brennan Center For Justice at New York University School of Law found documented examples of voter fraud to be “extremely rare” and likened it to one’s chances of being killed by lightning.
The idea that voter fraud is epidemic stems from the occasional high profile exception and from stunts like GOP activist James O’Keefe’s sending some guy into a polling place to vote under the name of Attorney General Eric Holder.
But stunts and high profile exceptions do not disprove — nor even address — the statistical reality Wang and the Brennan Center describe.
The demographic trend lines are clearly against the Republican Party.
But rather than work to broaden the party’s appeal, some GOP leaders have chosen instead to narrow the other party’s base under the guise of addressing a problem that does not exist.
Thus, you get a campaign to gut the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Thus, you get restrictive new Voter ID laws.
Thus you get Florida (like New Mexico and Colorado) culling its voter rolls of noncitizens and somehow, apparently by sheer happenstance, targeting those most likely to vote for the other party.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/02/2829960/the-gop-demographics-and-voter.html