Well, since studies have shown that voter fraud is almost non-existent in this country, particularly the in-person voter fraud that ID laws are supposedly designed to stop (http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/policy_brief_on_the_truth_about_voter_fraud/), maybe the GOP has decided that if they want these laws to stick they need to go out and create the fraud themselves.
J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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This reminds of the old saying about a bad smell in the air, "He who smelt it dealt it.".
Well, since studies have shown that voter fraud is almost non-existent in this country, particularly the in-person voter fraud that ID laws are supposedly designed to stop (http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/policy_brief_on_the_truth_about_voter_fraud/), maybe the GOP has decided that if they want these laws to stick they need to go out and create the fraud themselves.
So let me get this straight. You do not like voter fraud but do not like the tools to fight it even worse.
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