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2016 Postmortem

Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts) Fri Jul 29, 2016, 07:29 PM Jul 2016

17 States have new voter ID laws since last Pres. Election

Per PBS news.

I find this concerning. Do you?

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17 States have new voter ID laws since last Pres. Election (Original Post) Equinox Moon Jul 2016 OP

All more restrictive? speaktruthtopower Jul 2016 #1

Does that list include the 3 to 5 struck down in recent days & weeks? . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2016 #2

17 states is after the ones struck down Equinox Moon Jul 2016 #3

speaktruthtopower

(800 posts)

1. All more restrictive?

Reply to Equinox Moon (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 07:30 PM

Jul 2016

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,045 posts)

2. Does that list include the 3 to 5 struck down in recent days & weeks? . . . nt

Reply to Equinox Moon (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 07:35 PM

Jul 2016

Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)

3. 17 states is after the ones struck down

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 30, 2016, 04:45 PM

Jul 2016

That was my understanding.

Recently, the courts struck down the unconstitutional voter ID laws in Wisc., Texas, North Carolina. Those states have also participated in a lot of gerrymandering.

I am concerned. We can't expect the same people to vote this GE that voted 4 years ago for Obama. These strict voter ID laws makes it harder to vote, which is the very reason repubs do it!

So much for the greatest democracy in the world. That is just no longer true.

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