re: #134 Blind Frog Belly White

In the end, ‘legitimate’ is meaningless. In the absence of real evidence of cheating, it doesn’t matter what we think about the legitimacy.

What matters is how we respond.

I believe one thing the Dems must do is accomodate themselves to the current reality that the GOP controls a lot of State Houses and Governorships, so we’ll be fighting this Voter ID shit for years, and we won’t always win. That being the case, the way to deal with it is to keep fighting it while making sure everyone even remotely inclined to vote Democratic has an ID that allows them to vote under whatever Voter ID regime is passed in their state. It’ll cost money and shoeleather, but it will reduce the disenfranchisement.

They’re counting on making registration and voting difficult to do the job of suppression for them. If anybody tries to help people overcome those difficulties, they will simply refuse to register the “wrong” people or allow them to vote, legalities be damned. Who’s going to stop them?