Well, “at least he was honest”, as one observer notes. Via John Stephens at HuffPo…
Republican campaign consultant Scott Tranter appeared on a panel Monday hosted by the Pew Center on the States to discuss the long lines and voter ID controversies that plagued the 2012 election. In his comments, Tranter seemed to imply that he believed these issues were helpful to Republicans and should be pursued for that reason.
“A lot of us are campaign officials — or campaign professionals — and we want to do everything we can to help our side. Sometimes we think that’s voter ID, sometimes we think that’s longer lines — whatever it may be,” Tranter said with a laugh.
Tranter owns Vlytics, a company that was paid more than $3,000 by former presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign for “data consulting.”
Tranter’s actual remarks, and a bit of commentary about them from Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday and Dr. Michael McDonald of George Mason University’s Election Project, follow below..
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The threat of restricting voting was simply a challenge to many who made sure their voices were heard regardless of the time it took. If there was a decrease in voter participation, I haven’t heard about it. There was an increase of voting by mail, which costs more for everyone. Pissing people off is not the way to make friends!
I guess the GOP knows the MSM won’t care if they say things like this as several others have confirmed this. For example, Jim Greer said essentially the same thing as well.
Also last week, Jim Greer, the former head of the Florida Republican Party, admitted that shortening the early voting period was an attempt to lower minority voter turnout.
Why isn’t voter suppression (in all its devious forms) prosecuted vigorously? To me it is an act of treason because it is a violation of allegiance to our country and it attempts to overthrow the (soon to be) duly elected government.