The document discusses various topics related to voting restrictions and Republican policies including: - Laws passed in several states requiring photo ID to vote and reducing early voting periods. - Over 180 restrictive voting bills introduced in 41 states since 2011, with 25 laws passed in 19 states. - Analysis of voter ID and other laws aimed at fighting alleged voter fraud but which disproportionately impact poorer, minority, and elderly voters. - Discussion of Republican support for reducing restrictions on corporate political spending and influence.

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Restrictions on voting
Early voting
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First introduced in Indiana in 2008, new “photo ID” laws have the
potential to disenfranchise 3.2 million voters, mostly poorer residents
and minorities.
Georgia, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
five states – Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia –
have reduced their early voting periods as well.
In Kansas and Alabama, those wishing to register to vote must now
provide proof of citizenship first.Making it harder to restore voting
rights.
Michigan is currently considering a bill similar to Florida’s, but with
just a 24-hour window to submit voter registration forms. In Maine,
the Republican-controlled legislature has taken a different path,
choosing to repeal the state’s 38-year-old law allowing citizens to
register to vote at the polls on Election Day.

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Photo ID laws.Voter ID laws. Proof of citizenship laws. Making voter
registration harder. Reducing early and absentee days. Florida is just
one of 23 states that have laws restricting traditional registration
drives, Florida has dominated voting rights news for its attempts to restrict
registration and early voting , for its questionable voter purge , for the local
elections officials who've opposed such measures, and for the flurry of lawsuits
that have followed.
At least 180 restrictive bills introduced since the beginning of 2011 in 41
states.
27 restrictive bills currently pending in 6 states.
25 laws and 2 executive actions passed since the beginning of 2011 in 19
states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine,
Mississippi, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia,
Wisconsin).
17 states have passed restrictive voting laws that have the potential to
impact the 2012 election(Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Mississippi, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and
Wisconsin). These states account for 218 electoral votes, ornearly 80
percent of the total needed to win the presidency.
Of these, restrictions from 19 laws and executive actions are currently in
effect in 14 states (Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, New
Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,
Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin).

4. Analysis
Identification laws (read a detailed summary of laws passed since the
beginning
Florida’s lawmakers passed unnecessary electoral reforms in 2011 to
restrict voter registration drives and to cut off early voting hours—
Backers of the law, which was passed last year by Florida's
Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by Republican
Governor Rick Scott, say it is intended to fight voter fraud.
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Gov. Rick Snyder put Louis Schimmel in charge of Pontiac last
September, invoking Public Act 4, a recent law that lets the
governor name appointees to take over financially troubled cities
and enact drastic austerity measures. Under the law, passed last
March, these emergency managers can nullify labor contracts,
privatize public services, sell off city property, and even dismiss
elected officials.
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From food stamps to vouchers