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It’s time to call out the recent flurry of new state law restrictions for what they are: an all-out campaign by Republicans to take away the right to vote from poor and black and Latino American citizens who probably won’t vote for them. The push to restrict voting is nothing more than a naked grab to win elections that they can’t win if every citizen votes.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), in a speech at the Kennedy Institute, on racial injustice. (Transcript)

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I cannot approve such an unnecessary measure that would negatively impact one of our most precious rights as citizens.
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe (D) on why he vetoed a voter ID law today that was passed by the state legislature. (Associated Press)

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Do you really want to live in a country where one party is so desperate to win the White House that they go around trying to make it harder for people to vote if they’re people of color, poor people or first generation immigrants?
Former President Bill Clinton, speaking at an event during the Democratic National Convention, on recent efforts by Republican-controlled legislatures to pass laws making it harder for people to vote. (The Nation)

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Via Buzzfeed: “ A top Ohio Republican Sunday stood by his comment that the state’s voting procedures shouldn’t be “contort[ed] to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine.” In an interview with BuzzFeed, Franklin County...

Via Buzzfeed:

A top Ohio Republican Sunday stood by his comment that the state’s voting procedures shouldn’t be “contort[ed] to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine.”

In an interview with BuzzFeed, Franklin County GOP Chairman Doug Preisse, a close ally of Governor John Kasich, said his comment — which provoked Democratic outrage — was simply straight talk.

As we’ve said before, attacks on voting rights go hand-in-hand with efforts to dismantle our campaign finance system. As Nick Nyhart and Tova Wang wrote last year, “In fact, there is a well-organized and well-funded national attack on several areas crucial to our democracy including the unprecedented onslaught of bills meant to disenfranchise under-represented communities and the evisceration of campaign finance regulation.”

“People out, money in” seems to be the the motto of too many people these days.

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