Obama campaign working to counter new voter ID laws

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-campaign-working-to-counter-new-voter-id-laws/2012/05/18/gIQAABVeZU_story.html?hpid=z2

Obama campaign working to counter new voter ID laws
By Amy Gardner, Published: May 18


President Obama’s reelection campaign launched a national drive Friday to counter new restrictive voter-access laws, which advisers said threaten his electoral chances in November.

Organizers will fan out in key swing states this weekend to teach volunteers and voters how to navigate a series of laws passed by Republican-controlled state legislatures imposing stricter identification requirements, limiting early voting and making it harder to organize voter-registration drives.

It is the beginning of a months-long effort, campaign officials said, to combat what they described as a Republican effort to stifle voting among young people and minorities, two groups that traditionally tend to vote Democratic.

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A centerpiece of Obama’s new effort is a Web site, www.gottavote.org, that helps voters register and understand the voting requirements in their state. The site — and its Spanish-language version, votemostodos.org — also urges viewers to sign up to volunteer and solicits lawyers to help with voter-protection efforts.

The campaign will hold hundreds of events in key battlegrounds Saturday and Sunday. In the Washington region, mostly in the Virginia suburbs, there were 38 voter-registration events scheduled between Friday and Sunday.

A particular emphasis will be placed on training volunteers who will be deployed through the summer and fall to continue the education and registration effort directly with voters.

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1. Stupid Racist Comments Always Follow

They have to have it to get beer, cigarettes, welfare, food stamps, their refund from the irs. Obamas Acorn had thousands upon thousands of fraudulent votes cast in the 2008 election from Mickey mouse, donald duck. Right now they have suits filed against them in several states. Service men and women have died for our right to vote and none should be able to vote that is not a citizen of this country, that is dead or vote multiple times. Yes, Obama needs it for voter fraud and everyone is quite aware of that.

THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS