While I think the majority of people recognize that voter ID laws are simply a cynical way to disenfranchise typically Democratic voters, there is a recent genuine election worry that should lay bare their true intentions. It's been shown repeatedly that the average person who is affected by GOP voter ID laws are Ds, and that despite significant efforts to identify voter fraud there has been virtually no evidence presented. You also have other cynical attempts happening concurrently to minimize D turnout. The motivation is even more obvious when you hear it from the right itself. There are Rs who accidentally (or deliberately) state the true reason behind tampering with voter rules, like when conservative Phyllis Schafly stated minimizing days to vote helps the GOP by eliminating an "essential component" of D campaigns (though the GOP had their typical BS saying why it was needed), or when the PA House Majority Leader boasted that voter ID laws would suppress D voters and give the state to Romney, or when the GOP Chairman of FL stated explicitly the voter rules he advocated were to suppress Ds, or even when the WSJ pointed out that voter ID laws aren't as much a worry as absentee ballots but because absentee ballots favor the GOP they tend to ignore those worries.
But now there is clear evidence that the Russians have hacked into voter systems in the US, specifically AZ. Where is the GOP outrage and push to "protect the sanctity of the democracy?" The GOP has staked its position as wanting honest and clear elections, but when it's obvious there is a potentially real threat and that threat won't help them to win, they seem to go quiet. Why? (Rhetorical question.)
But now there is clear evidence that the Russians have hacked into voter systems in the US, specifically AZ. Where is the GOP outrage and push to "protect the sanctity of the democracy?" The GOP has staked its position as wanting honest and clear elections, but when it's obvious there is a potentially real threat and that threat won't help them to win, they seem to go quiet. Why? (Rhetorical question.)
