Frontline: "Unprecedented" Number of Restrictive Voting Laws Being Introduced

[TheReporter]

In a way, I think the GOP's efforts to curtail voter turnout serves as a metaphor for the party's policies as a whole: promoting efforts with only short-term benefits and long-term harms, and transparent excuses. This would equate to say, the Ryan plan or the Iraq invasion. The GOP cannot see into the future, and it may be perhaps they overtly reject progressivism, but this shall really come back to bite them in the ass. It could even be the  cause of their downfall.

[TheReporter]

Well, if you have to get an ID to vote and have to pay a fee to get an ID, wouldn't that be a poll tax?

Yup.  In fact Wisconsin's new photo ID to vote law was judged in March to be unconstitutional despite containing provisions for free IDs.  The free ID provisions were an attempt to make the law pass constitutional muster, but were apparently not sufficient.

This is good news.