The Republican 'voter fraud' fraud

The Guardian by Diane Roberts | Nov. 1, 2011 (Opinion)

All over the US, GOP lawmakers have engineered schemes to make voting more difficult. Well, if you can't win elections fairly… Presidential candidate and angry white man Newt Gingrich seems nostalgic for the good old Jim Crow poll tax days: he has called for people to have to pass an American historical literacy test before they can vote . His colleagues on the anti-democratic right have not gone quite so far, but 38 states, most of them controlled by ... Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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 by Jack Dinkmeyer - Nov. 2, 2011

Interesting a UK newspaper is the one with the article about more Republican voting disenfranchisement. Along with restructuring voting districts into something resembling pretzels, and every other nefarious scheme to keep Americans from their right to vote, Republicans show their inability to win elections fairly. Even they believe they cannot win an honest election. Says volumes about their ability to govern. But then we already have an overabundance of proof about their governance incompetence.

Americas forced to take an American history test in order to qualify to vote? Suggested by old has-been Newt? Why would he suggest something which he, himself, could not pass?

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