In 2012, it may be a lot harder for college students, people with disabilities, minorities, and low-income citizens to vote. Different states have proposed or already passed legislation that would keep the following folks from voting:
-- College students with a college issued student ID from that state (as opposed to a driver's license), simply because they could be paying out of state tuition;
-- Low-income urban minorities who do not drive, and therefore do not have driver's licenses;
-- People with disabilities who do not drive, and therefore do not have driver's licenses;
-- People released from prison, whether or not they paid their taxes.
You can read it all here: Voting Law Changes in 2012, a report published by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. It is rumored that Republican-dominated states are passing these laws to reduce the number of potentially Democratic voters in their districts.
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