Republican leaders realize cannot win this election. They lack the leadership, and their policies run contrary to what the American people want. They are also starting to realize that they cannot buy the election. Democratic volunteer presence on the ground dwarfs the best Republicans can buy. That said, Republicans have more ways to steal an election than a blue dog has GOP fleas. Here’s another. They are trying to fool voters into believing that they have been disenfranchised, and in some states, they are using your tax dollars to do it.

A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday blocked the key component of a highly contested state law requiring strict photographic identification to vote in next month’s election, saying the authorities had not done enough to ensure that voters had access to the new documents. The result, that Pennsylvanians will not have to present a state-approved ID to vote in November, was the latest and most significant in a series of legal victories for those opposed to laws that they charge would limit access to polls in this presidential election. With only a month left until Election Day, disputes around the country over new voter ID requirements, early voting, provisional ballots and registration drives are looking far less significant. “Every voter restriction that has been challenged this year has been either enjoined, blocked or weakened,” said Lawrence Norden of the Brennan Center for Justice, which is part of the New York University School of Law and opposes such restrictions. “It has been an extraordinary string of victories for those opposing these laws.” Voter ID laws have been taken off the table in Texas and Wisconsin. The Justice Department has blocked such a law in South Carolina, which has appealed in federal court. In Florida and Ohio, early voting and voter-registration drives have been largely restored. New Hampshire is going ahead with its law, but voters who do not have the required document will be permitted to vote and have a month to verify their identity… [emphasis added]

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Now this article makes it look like we’re winning hands down, and we are, BUT that won’t help if voters stay home, because they believe that they need ID that they do not have to vote. Rachel Maddow and Joan Fitz-Gerald discuss how Republicans are still trying to disenfranchise legitimate voters, even in places where courts rejected their voter suppression laws.

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It is critically to not only defeat these Republican attempts at election theft, but also to make sure voters are informed that we defeated the Republicans, so Republicans cannot fool them by lying to them they can’t vote.