Nah, there’s no need for the voting rights act
by digby
After all, nobody’s trying to suppress the vote or anything:
The head of the Pennsylvania Republican Party admitted earlier this week that controversy surrounding the state’s voter identification law prevented President Barack Obama from claiming a larger margin of victory there in last year’s election.
Pennsylvania GOP Chairman Rob Gleason’s comments came Wednesday during an interview with the Pennsylvania Cable Network. He was asked if the attention generated by the new law, which wasn’t in effect last November, had an effect on the election.
“Yeah, I think a little bit. We probably had a better election. Think about this, we cut Obama by five percent, which was big. A lot of people lost sight of that. He won, he beat McCain by 10 percent, he only beat Romney by five percent. I think that probably voter ID helped a bit in that.”
I’m sure it did.
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