Obama tackles voter suppression laws

The NY Times is reporting that field staff for President Obama’s campaign are fanning out across the country to confront the “barrage” of GOP passed voter ID laws. Many of these vote suppression laws, including those in Florida and Wisconsin, are the subject of legal challenges. Earlier this year, voters in Maine overturned a GOP passed law that ended same day voter registration. The President’s campaign apparently wants to be prepared for either situation, the laws being struck down or upheld. 
In the 2010 midterm elections GOP candidates won 29 of 50 governorships and took majority control of an additional 19 state legislative chambers that were controlled by Democrats. What happened next, Ann Sanner of the Associated Press reported that state legislatures under new Republican control are moving to trim early-voting days, beef up identification requirements and put new restrictions on how voters are notified about absentee ballots. In Florida, the GOP led legislature went further, adding an onerous new requirement of 48 hours for groups registering voters to turn in the voter registration forms.  Posted by Brent Scott, Executive Director of Vote by Mail America