LEHIGH VALLEY EXPRESS-TIMES Editorial: First, Republicans in Harrisburg saw hobgoblins when it came time to redraw legislative and congressional districts, and they created a Frankenstein monster of their own — gerrymandered maps that fractured communities to preserve GOP voting strongholds.
Now those same Republicans are seeing ghost voters where there are none. They’ve come up with a voter-ID bill designed to turn away people who show up at the polls without photo identification cards. Those people tend to be poor, disabled and elderly, and they tend to vote Democratic.
Debunking the “fraud-fighting” argument is easy. The evidence of voter fraud is nearly nonexistent. Even the Justice Department under President George W. Bush came to that conclusion, after a five-year study looking for organized activity to skew elections… (more)
EDITOR: The Lancaster New Era editors should take note of the above. But then again, their conservative readers need to be fed some red meat from time to time.
