Vote Suppression: the long strategy
by digby
Mother Jones reports on the the Republican vote suppression efforts going on around the country. I'm glad that attention is being paid but I hope that people don't get the impression that this is new. It's a very, very long standing conservative strategy with a huge amount of institutional support. The reason they are going for it now is because the Supreme Court gave them cover with the Indiana ID law and they have recently taken over a bunch of state legislatures.
Just as they are going hard after the public employee unions and abortion rights, vote suppression is one of their long held agenda items that they are opportunistically trying to pass while they have the opening.
For a primer on just how long this has been going on,this post is a place to start. Or just google Operation Eagle Eye.
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