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Friday, September 15, 2006
It’s this bad: Florida’s only No. 10
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The liberal mag, Mother Jones, is out this month with its list of America’s worst places to vote, based on discriminatory practices, machine foul-ups, etc.
We’re No. 1!
For some reason, the article singles out Atlanta rather than Georgia at large, but what it’s really getting at is the mandatory photo ID law, which it refers to as “The New Poll Tax.�
Dan Tokaji, associate director of election law at Ohio State’s law school, calls the law, which won U.S. Justice Department approval over staff objections, part of “an orchestrated voter-suppression by less-scrupulous strategists in the Republican Party.�
Wisconsin and Missouri have passed similar laws, the article notes, although the Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed the legislation.
