Gop Lawmakers Around The Us Push For Restrictions On Voting

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Thu, 02/09/2017 - 12:05am

[...] research has shown that in-person fraud at the polls is extremely rare, and critics of these restrictions warn that they will hurt mostly poor people, minorities and students — all of whom tend to vote Democratic — as well as the elderly. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, for example, is backing a proposal to automatically register people to vote using their motor vehicle paperwork and to offer early voting for 12 days before Election Day. Many of the restrictive laws became possible after the U.S.

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