Republicans just love to claim that voter fraud is rampant across the United States, even though there is little to no proof of such. They make these assertions, of course, because they want to limit who can vote and keep those opposed to them–minorities, the poor–from exercising their right to cast a ballot. As a result, the GOP is fond of strict voter ID laws. And one of the strictest is found in Wisconsin, where Scott Walker is the governor.
Last night on “All In With Chris Hayes” on MSNBC, Hayes decided to challenge Walker’s recent comment that opponents of his state’s voter ID law should “look at the facts.” So that’s exactly what Hayes did, noting:
“Alright, let’s look at the facts. There’s the fact that despite dire warnings of voter fraud, a Wisconsin federal district judge ruled that the law’s defenders — and I’m quoting — ‘could not point to a single instance of known voter impersonation occurring in Wisconsin at any time in the recent past.'”
Ari Berman, who wrote a piece on this issue for The Nation, was a guest on last night’s show. Berman had noted in his article that as a result of the restrictive voter ID law in Wisconsin, some 300,000 registered voters will not be able to participate in next week’s Wisconsin primary. Many of those are students and people of color, the very people Republicans are deathly afraid of. Hayes told Berman:
“The thing I’m terrified [of] is, we’re gonna have one day in November where we’re gonna try to run the experiment with all these new lies without a certain section of the Voting Rights Act. What’s gonna happen?”
Berman responded:
“It’s gonna be much worse in November.”
No doubt it will be, and even more people will be disenfranchised. This is a slap in the face of everything we stand for as a nation.
Watch the Segment From MSNBC:
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