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Voter ID Laws From The Big House
Listen to the Quiet Part Shouted Out Loud
If you think voter ID laws have nothing to do with racism, you haven’t been listening to Republican leaders when they say the quiet part out loud with enough decibels for even the deaf to hear. If, after reading this, you still believe that voter ID laws have nothing to do with a white supremacist power grab, you’re ignoring American history and merit a diploma from the Kellyanne Conway School of Alternative Facts.
From the Godfather of the modern conservative movement, Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council, which wants to return to state legislatures, not voters, choosing senators:
“I don’t want everybody to vote,” he said. “Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” (https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/i-dont-want-everybody-to-vote-the-roots-of-gop-voter-suppression/)
Freed by Shelby County vs Holder in 2013 from Section Five of the 1965 Voting Rights Act’s requirement to get pre-clearance of election law changes from the Dept of Justice,
