Revealed: The secret Republican plot to disenfranchise millions of voters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : In the 2004 election, "Hispanic voters were 10 percent less likely to vote in non-photo-identification states compared to states where voters only had to give their name."
45% : The story of how voter ID laws suppress minority and poor people's votes hadn't yet hit the news in a big way, but it was electrifying Republican politicians and consultants.
36% : Karl Rove helped organize publicity about the "crisis" of "illegal voting" as a possible explanation for Bush's losing the popular vote by a half-million, and Attorney General John Ashcroft launched the 2002 Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Initiative in the Justice Department, requiring all 100 US federal prosecutors to "coordinate with local officials" to combat the scourge of illegal voting and bring to justice the millions of presumed malefactors who made the election so close.118Over the next three years, at a cost of millions of dollars, and after examining tens of millions of voters and more than a billion votes, Ashcroft was able to document and successfully prosecute only 24 people nationwide for voting illegally -- and none of them had committed in-person voter fraud of the kind that would be stopped by voter ID.
30% : Karl Rove put on the pressure; they had to find a few people (ideally black or brown people with fake IDs) who could be made into national examples of the evils of in-person voter fraud, if they were ever to convince Americans that stronger ID laws were necessary to stop noncitizens from voting.

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