Voter Suppression or Why African Americans Legitimately Hate the GOP. Part One.

Yes, its true the Democrats ignore the black vote and take it for granted. But its hard to vote for the other side when it engages in voter suppression tactics.

From Firedoglake:

Republicans and their outside allies seem to be spending money on two things this election. One is zillions and zillions of TV ads. The other is the usual voter suppression machine, designed to intimidate minorities and the poor.

In Illinois, Mark Kirk was caught on tape talking about a “voter integrity” program that he will deploy in black neighborhoods on Election Day. This is how it’s always pitched, as an anti-fraud measure, despite the fact that there’s no evidence whatsoever of voter fraud occurring on any major scale anywhere in the country for the last 30 years. Alexi Giannoulias, Kirk’s opponent for US Senate in Illinois, told it like it is in a debate yesterday:

Read the whole thing as they say.