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The answer to the question in the headline should be obvious in light of Scott Walker’s proposal to repeal his state’s same-day voter registration law.
Right-wing Republicans have a long history of advocating, surreptitiously or otherwise, measures aimed at holding down voter turnout. Their reasoning is simple: High turnouts tend to favor Democrats.
Walker’s rationale for his latest effort at reducing voter turnout — coming, as it does, on the heels of this month’s defeat of his party’s presidential ticket –is simply ludicrous, as Steve Benen notes HERE:
Why would Wisconsin’s governor and leading state GOP lawmakers want to scale ...
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