CNN: Major conservative groups unify behind state GOP efforts to restrict voting

CNN ^ | March 28 | By Fredreka Schouten, CNN

[RandFan]

National Republican groups are working to drive the state-by-state GOP efforts to limit voting -- offering guidance to the state lawmakers drafting laws to restrict ballot access, deploying grassroots activists to key battlegrounds and raising millions of dollars to block efforts by Democrats in Congress to establish a national baseline for voting rights.

Heritage Action for America, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, has publicly committed to spending at least $10 million to "secure and strengthen state election systems." And guidelines sent out earlier this year by the Heritage Foundation -- including extending identification requirements to absentee voting and barring third-party groups from collecting voters' absentee ballots -- have emerged in bills now racing through the Legislature in Georgia and other statehouses.

Organizations ranging from the libertarian-leaning advocacy group FreedomWorks to the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List also have jumped into the voting rights battle this year.

The involvement of national groups shows that efforts to restrict voting in dozens of states "are not a coincidence," said Hillary Holley, organizing director of the Georgia-based voting rights group Fair Fight Action. "This is a strategic imperative that's well-funded."

[lurk]

So the dems are asserting that black people, even given 2 years to get it done, are unable to acquire ID and transport themselves a few blocks to a voting site.

[Vaduz]

Offering guidance to the state lawmakers drafting laws to restrict **illegal**ballot access.

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[Luke21]

If the Dems were for it, they would use “reform” instead of “restrict.”

[VideoDoctor]

CNN: Major conservative groups unify behind state GOP efforts to restrict voting

CNN: Major conservative groups unify behind state GOP efforts to restrict LEGALIZE voting

[lepton]

Major conservative groups unify behind state GOP efforts to restrict voting...to actual voters...that live in the place they are voting in...voting with one ballot per election.