Even beyond voter ID, the rightwing plans on exercising extralegal, but not necessarily illegal, measures to suppress the vote in 2012. Bullies at the Ballot Box, a new report released jointly by Demos and Common Cause, surveys the state of the laws of ten states: Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.
The report comes after True the Vote, which grew out of a branch of the Texas Tea Party, has ramped up its voter intimidation in advance of the presidential election. Their goal? To recruit a million thugs to monitor polls this November.
Though they likely won’t recruit that many volunteers, True the Vote is well on its way to swaying the election in crucial battleground states. And their funding remains opaque.
