Also the governor and Republican controlled legislature is trying to rush into place a voter ID law which will be in effect at the July elections which would give very little time for those people without state issued drivers licenses (the preferred ID as spelled-out in the proposed legislation) to get approved alternatives, which will adversely effect the elderly and the intercity poor, exactly the people whom the Republicans want to disenfranchise the most.
This whole voter fraud issue is a red herring as there were something like 12 or 15 cases of 'voter fraud' reported in the entire country during the 2008 elections, and in many cases it turned out to be people who had moved and were attempting to vote at their old precincts (even Ann Coulter was caught attempting this) or were not yet registered at their new ones. Hardly the epidemic that the Right would like people to believe that it is. In fact, if the truth be told, the greatest instances of 'voter fraud' was where people who legitimately had a right to vote were denied that right based on some questionable action by election officials, such as stripping people from the voters poll if they had mailed returned from an old address (hundreds of military personnel serving overseas or students off in college were caught-up in this scheme) or people being turned away because their names matched that of someone who had been convicted of felony in another state, a scheme which was first widely used in Florida during the 2000 elections where a company in Texas was 'selling' unverified lists of 'felons' to several states, many of which were conveniently limited to only people who were identified as minorities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caging_%28voter_suppression%29
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