No Voting After Church?
Republican-led legislatures across the country have imposed voting restrictions that are being criticized as blatantly designed to suppress the black, minority and elderly voting blocs -- in other words, groups expected to be key to President Obama's bid for re-election in 2012.
Even Attorney General Eric Holder has spoken out against these changes, urging political parties "to resist the temptation to suppress certain votes in the hope of attaining electoral success." Democratic officials have called "a full-scale assault" on minority voters. Special-interest groups, including the NAACP and labor unions, have held rallies and filed lawsuits against them.
Some of the new laws require government-issued identification to vote. Others limit third-party voter-registration drives, making it harder for groups to help others prepare to head to the polls.
No Voting After Church?
Jenée Desmond-Harris
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:16:00 GMT
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