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How Voter ID Laws Suppress Registration Drives and Block Democratic Votes

Posted by | Feb 15, 2012 | |

The movement to save electoral democracy by requiring states to enact voter-identification laws began with a whimper. In 2005, Mark “Thor” Hearne, a lawyer who had worked for the Bush-Cheney political campaign, founded the American Center for Voting Rights.

The center produced one 72-page report: “Vote Fraud, Intimidation, & Suppression in the 2004 Presidential Election,” which was submitted to a House committee chaired by Ohio Congressman Bob Ney (who would later do time for his role in the Jack Abramoff scandal).

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