Republicans hit a snag in their efforts to make sure nobody darker than receipt ever votes again, when Michigan Governor Rick Snyder vetoed—that's vetoed, not signed—a Voter ID bill on Tuesday, becoming the first Republican governor in the past two years to veto such a bill.
Snyder said that while he "appreciates the issue of ensuring voters are eligible and U.S. citizens," he felt the measure could create "voter confusion among absentee voters."
Staffers are currently searching Snyder's office for the RNC memo that told him to sign such bills for the express purpose of creating confusion among certain classes of voters, i.e., low-income and minority voters, who tend to vote Democratic. Snyder was supposed to have been informed that Voter ID bills exist to intimidate, confuse or discourage those voters from voting, but that they do so under the cover of preventing the entirely fictional voter fraud that doesn't exist and can't exist, but which creates a situation in which anybody who votes against it looks like they're pro-fraud, which is pretty much what the bill's Republican sponsor just called Rick Snyder.
Clearly Snyder did not get this memo. Perhaps a staffer filed it in D for Disenfranchisement, instead of V for Voter Fraud? I hope they're happy, because now Michigan Republicans have to actually get votes for themselves, as opposed to just barring votes for their opponents. Sometimes it's like democracy isn't even fun anymore.
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