Cynthia Tucker on Republicans' Voter ID Scam

Cynthia Tucker calls out the Republicans on their Voter ID scam, same old GOP dirty tricks. The GOP's message is: If you do not participate in the consumer society with properly pictured IDs, your voice does not and should not count at the polls.

ATLANTA - If the U.S. Supreme Court upholds Indiana's harsh voter ID law, as its justices seem poised to do, hundreds of thousands of black Americans should march in protest. So should hundreds of thousands of Latino Americans. Native Americans, too. Political activists from across the ethnic spectrum should convene the biggest political demonstration since the historic March on Washington in 1963. ...

The GOP is aiming at a small pool of voters - mostly poor, often elderly, usually black or brown - who lack driver's licenses. As it happens, they tend to support Democrats. ...

The way things are going, Republicans running for national office could lose by a lot of votes - not a few. So they'll need a new scam to win elections.

Let's hope one of the five rightwing Republicans on the Supreme Court develops a conscience. Otherwise Crawford v. Marion County Election Board and Indiana Democratic Party v. Rokita will join Bush v. Gore in the annals of the corruption of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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