Everybody knows that the reason the Republican Party is making it harder to vote in every state where they have the power to make it harder to vote is because they know that high turnout hurts them. And it’s no coincidence that the way they have decided to make it hard to vote impacts people who don’t drive the most, and that people who don’t drive tend to be either very elderly or live in urban areas with good public transportation. And when we’re talking about people who live in urban areas, we’re talking about a lot of racial diversity. When you make it a requirement that people have a state-issued photo ID, it disproportionately impacts people of color. And that’s the feature of these laws. It’s not a bug. It’s the entire point. No one can find any systemic voter fraud. Not one election has been decided wrongly due to voter fraud. The number of people we know would be disenfranchised by these laws is so vastly greater than the tiny handful of fraudulent votes that have been discovered that it’s obvious that election integrity has nothing to do with why the GOP is passing them. But don’t tell that to the Wall Street Journal. They say that the Attorney General is just stirring up racial hatred of whites. Seriously. They say that. They say Eric Holder is inciting racism when he talks about the importance of the Voting Rights Act. For real.

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