Voting in the US 2012 presidential election

Ari Berman, writing in Rolling Stone:

As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008.
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Florida and Iowa barred all ex-felons from the polls, disenfranchising thousands of previously eligible voters.

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