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North Carolina's new voter ID law is ostensibly designed to reduce voter fraud. That's the official story, anyway. But if that's the case, why did North Carolina also pass a whole bunch of other voting restrictions, including limits on early voting? Phyllis Schlafly, the doyen of right-wing crankery, explains that the reason was simple: "Early voting plays a major role in Obama's ground game....[It] is an essential component of the Democrats' get-out-the-vote campaign." Steve Benen comments:
Read more @: Conservatives Are Finally Admitting What Voter Suppression Laws Are All About | Mother Jones
Like we already didnt know what this was about. Its about time they actually confess what this fraud called "Voter ID Laws" are about... Voter suppression..