J'ai publié il y a peu une déclaration de Matthew Vadum. Vadum ne serait pas le seul à appuyer ses propos puisque de nombreux élus républicains semblent utiliser la même logique... Vous noterez que le Tea party n'est pas loin...
"The argument usually goes like this: everyone should be able to vote and that voter ID isn't supposed to make it harder for anyone to vote. Also, voter ID efforts aren't partisan, but rather about good government, and that if you have to show your ID to buy liquor or rent a movie from Blockbuster you should have to show it to vote.
But Vadum -- who wrote column upon column and even a book about the community organizing group ACORN -- published a piece last week that really gave away the game, writing that groups that want to register poor people are un-American and are essentially "handing out burglary tools to criminals."
Voter ID legislation in the states has been getting a lot of attention lately, with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) announcing a hearing examining the issue this week.
It all started in January, as many new Republican state legislators who had been swept into statehouses across the country in the 2010 elections started pushing like-minded legislation soon after they took office.
"These bills started popping up everywhere and what started as a trickle almost seemed like a flood," Carolyn Fiddler of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee told TPM.
Altogether this year, 20 states which did not have voter ID laws and 14 states that already had non-photo ID laws have considered legislation requiring citizens have a photo ID to vote, according to the latest figures from the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Of those 34 states which considered voter ID legislation, six of them enacted laws: Alabama, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
Many suspect some sort of coordinated campaign behind the voter ID bills. Back in March, Campus Progress uncovered model legislation published by the conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Fiddler isn't so sure they're entirely responsible.
"I know a lot of folks point to ALEC and what they're doing but what my experience tells me is that a lot of these legislators are influenced by their colleagues in others states," Fiddler told TPM. "They say, 'hey that works! Let's try to push that thing here'."
A few years back, there was a centralized group, the American Center for Voting Rights, that was dedicated to pushing the idea that voter fraud was a major threat. Now it's more a loose network of conservatives who have used their influence at think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the pages of various conservative media outlets to push voter fraud as a threat to democracy.
The Tea Party is also getting in on the game, with a group in Texas playing a major role, starting an affiliated group called "True the Vote" that hosted its first national conference back in March. Speakers insisted that their efforts were non-partisan and that they wanted everyone to be able to vote."
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/legal_battles_loom_in_fight_over_voter_id_laws.php#more
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