The Republicans Attack Voter Rights - When Will They Come For You?

First, they went after women. They tried to cut funding for women health care, they tried to redefine rape, and tried to make a miscarriage a capital crime.

Next, they went after children. They are trying to cut funding to Headstart programs, one of the most effective pre-school programs.

Next, they went after seniors. The Republicans want to cut Meals On Wheels to millions of low-income and shut-ins seniors.

Next, it was Marriage Equality and States Rights that the Republicans went after. The House Republicans will now present the case for DOMA that the Justice Department recently determined they could not defend a law they deemed unconstitutional

Then they went after the unions.

Now they are attacking the right to vote…

In states, parties clash over voting laws that would affect college students, others
By Peter Wallsten
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 8, 2011; 10:41 AM

New Hampshire's new Republican state House speaker is pretty clear about what he thinks of college kids and how they vote. They're "foolish," Speaker William O'Brien said in a recent speech to a tea party group.

"Voting as a liberal. That's what kids do," he added, his comments taped by a state Democratic Party staffer and posted on YouTube [about 2 minutes in to the video]. Students lack "life experience," and "they just vote their feelings."

New Hampshire House Republicans are pushing for new laws that would prohibit many college students from voting in the state - and effectively keep some from voting at all.

Never mind that there is something call the Constitution and the right to vote. They want the students to vote where their parents vote, ignoring the fact that the students are over the age of 18 and have a right to choose where they want to live.

The article goes on to state that,

Democrats charge that the real goal, as with anti-union measures in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere, is simply to deflate the power of core Democratic voting blocs - in this case young people and minorities. For all the allegations of voter fraud, Democrats and voting rights groups say, there is scant evidence to show that it is a problem.

"It's a war on voting," said Thomas Bates, vice president of Rock the Vote, a youth voter- registration group mounting a campaign to fight the array of state measures. "We'd like to be advocating for a 21st-century voting system, but here we are fighting against.
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The disputes are taking on national implications. Several states where newly empowered Republicans are pushing voter legislation, such as New Hampshire, Wisconsin and North Carolina, are expected to be battlegrounds in the 2012 presidential race. Democrats say the voters most likely to be affected are core pieces of President Obama's base.
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Blacks account for about one-fifth of the North Carolina electorate but are a larger share - 27 percent - of the approximately 1 million voters who may lack a state-issued ID or whose names do not exactly match the Division of Motor Vehicles database. The analysis found about 556,000 voters with no record of an ID issued by the DMV.
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In Wisconsin, a photo-ID bill backed by the state's new GOP majority would not permit voters to use school-issued student cards. The measure would allow for other IDs, such as passports, but opponents say thousands of students who do not have Wisconsin driver's licenses or passports would face unfair hurdles that would keep many of them from voting.

Many different types of these laws have already been struck down by the Supreme Court, but that does stop the Republicans…

States that require voter IDs also must be willing to pay for them, the result of a court ruling that declared part of Georgia's ID law unconstitutional because people lacking IDs would have to pay for cards themselves - creating, in effect, a poll tax. A legislative analysis shows the Wisconsin measure would cost the state $2.7 million a year.
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After posting O'Brien's comments about college students on the Internet, state Democratic Party officials accused the GOP of pushing the legislation to rig elections. Voting rights advocates have noted that the courts have affirmed the rights of students to vote where they live.

So much for their claim that they want to cut the budget and do you remember the Republicans waving the Constitution at the opening of Congress? It seems like that they only want to obey the Constitution when it suites them.

You know that students vote...

Their "youthful idealism," he [NH state Rep. Gregory Sorg] added, "is focused on remaking the world, with themselves in charge, of course, rather than with the mundane humdrum of local government."

Imagine that, some voters views are more important that others.