To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (955665 ) 8/10/2016 7:01:32 PM From: Alighieri Respond to But that's not the point. The point is that you are labeling a requirement as "racist" if its negative consequences (not positive, mind you) disproportionately affects minorities. After the election, former Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer told The Palm Beach Post that the explicit goal of the state’s voter-ID law was Democratic suppression. “The Republican Party, the strategists, the consultants, they firmly believe that early voting is bad for Republican Party candidates,” Greer told the Post. “It’s done for one reason and one reason only ... ‘We’ve got to cut down on early voting because early voting is not good for us,’” he said. Indeed, the Florida Republican Party imposed a host of policies, from longer ballots to fewer precincts in minority areas, meant to discourage voting. And it worked. According to one study , as many as 49,000 people were discouraged from voting in November 2012 as a result of long lines and other obstacles.
