When it comes to voter ID laws, conservative leaders cant seem to stick to the voter fraud script.
Jim DeMint, the president of the conservative Heritage Foundation and former senator from South Carolina, became the latest in a growing list of Republican lawmakers who have admitted the real intention of voter ID laws. In an interview last week, the Tea Party leader asserted that the laws have shifted elections toward conservative candidates because they are blocking Democratic voters.
Though most conservatives will state publicly that the intention of these laws is to combat purported voter fraud, study after study and multiple investigations have found that voter fraud is virtually non-existent. Meanwhile, voter ID laws are proven to keep people disproportionately minorities, young voters, and low-income people from the polls.
While DeMint and the Heritage Foundation usually use the voter fraud talking point, DeMint went off script with St. Louis radio host Jamie Allman and acknowledged that the laws suppress Democratic voters, according to Right Wing Watch.
Its something were working on all over the country, because in the states where they do have voter ID laws youve seen, actually, elections begin to change towards more conservative candidates, he said.
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