The Washington Post Says Republicans Deserve Hillary’s Brickbats On Voting Rights

The Washington Post Says Republicans Deserve Hillary’s Brickbats On Voting Rights

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he Washington Post Editorial Board just published a ringing endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s efforts to expand voting rights, arguing that Republicans deserve to be attacked on the issue.

IT SHOULDN’T be a surprise that Hillary Clinton has tough words for Republicans. Not all of them will be as deserved as the brickbats she lobbed at them on Thursday.

“I call on Republicans at all levels of government with all manner of ambition to stop fear-mongering about a phantom epidemic of election fraud and start explaining why they’re so scared of letting citizens have their say,” she said in calling for a system of universal and automatic voter registration instead of pernicious new limits on the franchise.

Politicians have waged war over voting rights over the past several years, with Democrats trying to maximize access to the ballot box and Republicans attempting to limit it. Think about that: A major political party has devoted time and effort to discouraging eligible voters from exercising their most fundamental democratic right.

GOP leaders justify their anti-voting agenda as an answer to voter fraud, but voter fraud is an imaginary problem. In fact, Republicans want fewer people to vote, especially fewer poor and minority people, because low turnout tends to favor the GOP, and poor and minority people tend to vote for Democrats. To be sure, Democrats have political incentives to increase turnout. But that doesn’t discredit the overriding logic that democracy is healthier when more people participate.

Washington post link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/voting-made-easy/2015/06/06/302906dc-0bc2-11e5-95fd-d580f1c5d44e_story.html