Posts Tagged ‘director of elections for the League of Women Voters’
New Voter ID Laws Could Hurt Obama
New state laws that many have passed to curb voter fraud could reduce the number of Americans signing up to vote in this year’s presidential election by hundreds of thousands, a potential problem for President Barack Obama’s re-election bid. New voter laws have been passed in many Republican controlled states, and they have sharply restricted voter-registration drives that typically target young, low-income, African-American and Hispanic voters – groups that have backed the Democratic president by wide margins.
