Dean: Restrictive Indiana Voter ID Law is a Manufactured Problem by Republicans Based on Fear Not FactsJan. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Supreme Court heard arguments on Indiana's undemocratic voter identification law. While there has never been a report of voter impersonation fraud in Indiana, real voters -- seniors, students, veterans, minorities and low-income families -- have been disenfranchised at the polls because of this restrictive requirement.
Indiana's voter ID law is a manufactured problem by Republicans based on fear, not facts -- just another example in a long list of Republican efforts to suppress the right to vote. Republican strategist and Mitt Romney advisor Paul Weyrich was honest about the Republican tactics, telling a training session for 15,000 conservative preachers in Dallas:
"I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of the people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22222"This case underscores the lengths to which Republicans will go to manufacture a problem based on fear, not facts," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. "Undemocratic voter ID laws are just another part of a broad Republican effort to undermine our fundamental right to vote. For years, Republicans have orchestrated voter purges, inconsistently administered election laws, and politicized the Department of Justice for partisan gain. Manufacturing this problem is another Republican scheme to steal the election, just like they are trying to with the California Electoral College initiative.
"But make no mistake: Democrats will not be caught off guard in November. We believe that the more people who vote, the better it is for democracy and our country. We will not let Republicans steal another election. We've launched an unprecedented voter protection effort to protect each and every American's right to vote and have that vote counted. The American people have waited far too long for a Democratic president to bring honest leadership back to the White House."
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