{"id":8221,"date":"2012-10-16T15:58:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T22:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8221"},"modified":"2012-10-16T17:29:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T00:29:15","slug":"gop-voter-suppression-repeatedly-struck-down-by-the-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8221","title":{"rendered":"GOP Voter Suppression Struck Down By The Courts Again – That’s 7 Straight Victories So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"

This election cycle has been stained by some of the most cynical and anti-democratic legal maneuvers ever perpetrated on the American public. Over the past few years, in states where Republican governors assumed power, they quickly set about abusing their position in order to corrupt the democratic process and deny citizens the right to vote.<\/p>\n

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The methods used by the GOP included partisan redistricting, inhibiting registration, curtailing early voting, purges of voter rolls, and discriminatory voter ID procedures. Most of these gambits were described by conservatives as prudent measures to protect against voter fraud. However, they were never able to demonstrate that voter fraud was a problem calling out for a solution. In fact, experts have conducted studies<\/a> that proved that such fraud was nearly non-existent. In the meantime, these new policies resulted in millions of legitimate citizens being at risk for losing their access to the ballot. In almost every instance it was Democratic-leaning constituencies who were adversely affected: minorities, seniors, students, and those with low-income.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, these oppressors were challenged by civil libertarians and grassroots activists who took the vote-killers to court. The result has been an unprecedented string of legal victories that are restoring the Constitutional rights of citizens who want to participate in their democracy. Today the Supreme Court refused to alter the ruling of an Ohio court that restored early voting to all residents. Here is a list showing that and other recent court rulings that have put the brakes on the Republican initiative to suppress the vote:<\/p>\n