Governor Scott's attempt to suppress the Florida vote in the last election was stymied, but now the activist Supreme Court's ruling has re-energized the neo-Jim Crow efforts of the Republican Party. This paragraph from today's
New York Times story pretty much sums up the bald-faced nature of what Scott and the national Republicans are trying to accomplish. Can't get the voters to agree with you? Just eliminate more and more of them.
...Mr. Scott risks angering voters with perhaps little payoff, political
strategists said. While securing the integrity of the vote is admirable,
they say, there is no evidence that noncitizens in Florida are
systematically voting. Last year’s attempt at unearthing noncitizens
initially began with a pool of 182,000 names of potential noncitizens,
and that was winnowed to a list of 2,600. Those named were sent to
election supervisors, who found that many were in fact citizens.
Ultimately, the list of possible noncitizen voters shrank to 198. Of
those, fewer than 40 had voted illegally.
“It’s a solution in search of a problem,” said Steve Schale, who
directed Mr. Obama’s campaign in Florida in 2008 and was a senior
adviser in 2012....
"Solution in search of a problem" could be the offical motto of today's Republican Party. How sad.
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