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Carolina...
- The end of pre-registration for 16 & 17 year olds
- A ban on paid voter registration drives
- Elimination of same day voter registration
- A provision allowing voters to be challenged by any registered voter of the county in which they vote rather than just their precinct
- A week sliced off Early Voting
- Elimination of straight party ticket voting
- A provision making the states presidential primary date a function of the primary date in South Carolina
- A provision calling for a study (rather than a mandate) of electronic candidate filing
- An increase in the maximum campaign contribution to $5,000 (the limit will continue to increase every two years with the Consumer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- A provision weakening disclosure requirements for independent expenditure committees
- Authorization of vigilante poll observers, lots of them, with expanded range of interference
- An expansion of the scope of who may examine registration records and challenge voters
- A repeal of out-of-precinct voting
- A repeal of the current mandate for high-school registration drives
- Elimination of flexibility in opening early voting sites at different hours within a county
- A provision making it more difficult to add satellite polling sites for the elderly or voters with disabilities
- New limits on who can assist a voter adjudicated to be incompetent by court
- The repeal of three public financing programs
- The repeal of disclosure requirements under candidate specific communications.
Florida....
Florida Republicans Admit Voter Suppression Was The Goal Of New Election Laws
Floridians endured election chaos and marathon voting lines this year, largely thanks to reduced early voting hours, voter purges, and voter registration restrictions pushed by Republican legislators. In an exclusive report by the Palm Beach Post, several prominent Florida Republicans are now admitting that these election law changes were geared toward suppressing minority and Democratic votes.
Wayne Bertsch, who handles local and legislative races for Republicans, said he knew targeting Democrats was the goal.
Those silly fools who think these efforts are only out in place to slant the voting process in favor of the right. Silly stupid fools.
I'd say that the fools are the ones, like Max, who don't recognize or admit the truth. But they are hardly fools. They are hardened ideologues who put their own party and political position above the very tenets of what our nation, at it's very root, stands for.
So maybe the left are fools (and admittedly they often are). Those who push to continue these anti-American tactics of voter suppression are cunning. They are cd heated and in my opinion another example of unpatriotic (go ahead Tim, tell me how I'm wrong to call a spade a spade when a large group wants only to suppress the opposing viewpoints ability to engage in our democratic process) vitriol that continues to do real harm to our nation and out future.