Posted on 04/21/2012 7:34:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New state laws designed to fight voter fraud could reduce the number of Americans signing up to vote in this year's presidential election by hundreds of thousands, a potential problem for President Barack Obama's re-election bid.
Voting laws passed by Republican-led legislatures in a dozen states during the past year have sharply restricted voter-registration drives that typically target young, low-income, African-American and Hispanic voters - groups that have backed the Democratic president by wide margins.
A further 16 states are considering bills that would end voter registration on election days, impose a range of limits on groups that register voters and make it more difficult for people to sign up, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School.
The new laws - many of which include measures requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls - could carve into Obama's potential support in Florida, Ohio and a few other politically divided states likely to be crucial in the November 6 election, analysts say.
The analysts note that massive registration drives in 2008 helped put millions of people aged 18 to 29 on voting rolls, and that age group - which makes up roughly one-quarter of the U.S. electorate - helped propel Obama to victory, voting 2-to-1 for him.
Rock the Vote, a nationwide organization that mobilizes young voters, said the new laws would make it more difficult for the group to educate people on how to sign up to vote.
"The types of laws have varied, but state by state they've added up to the fact that it's going to be harder for young people to get registered and vote in this election cycle," said Heather Smith, president of Rock the Vote.
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New state laws designed to fight voter fraud could reduce the number of illegal aliens signing up to vote..
Corrected.
U.S. President Barack Obama holds a football helmet and jersey presented to him by coach Nick Saban (L) and team mates of the BCS National Champion University of Alabama Crimson Tide following their 14th championship, at the White House in Washington, April 19, 2012. REUTERS/Jason Reed
Alternative headline: “Fewer fraudulent voters in 2012 spell trouble for Obama reelection chances.”
Now would be a good time to to start revoking voting rights from non tax payers and Federal Employees.
If you have to be educated on how to sign up to vote, then you’re not intelliigent enough to be voting.
What - is someone proposing that we start following the law? This will go nowhere.
An informed and legitimate electorate is the cornerstone to a free society. Anything else jeopardizes the whole concept of self-government. Election fraud is worse than treason, and those who excuse it should be deported to some banana republic.
Period.
Bfl
Is a mug shot acceptable?
If you need a ballot you shouldn’t be voting.
Do you know what this means? This means that Donald, Mickey, Pluto, Adolf, Huey, Louie and Dewey are Disenfranchised!
Do you know what this means? This means that Donald, Mickey, Pluto, Adolf, Huey, Louie and Dewey are Disenfranchised!
I don't get it.
“could reduce the number of INELIGIBLE NON- Americans signing up “
Translation: “New Curbs on Election Fraud Could Hurt Ubama”
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