Those who support voter ID laws tend to refer to the need to eliminate voter fraud. They would also say it’s just good practice to purge registration rolls occasionally, so they don’t fill up with records of people who have died or moved away. Let’s take it as given that both things are good practice. Let’s even assume that the Dems cynically resist the practices, because the result is fewer Dem votes.

Why, then, has the GOP waited until just before (or even after) the deadlines for registering, or when it’s too late for people to obtain all the necessary identification? It seems suspicious to me, but I’d like to hear what right-leaning people have to say on the matter.

They’re doing this all across the nation, with the support of the Supreme Court. I’ve been reading about it in lots of left-leaning media. Below an excerpt from an email I just got from vote.org (I couldn’t find it on their site, so I’m just pasting it here).

What do people on the right say about these things? Can you see an innocent reason for all of this to be done at the last minute?

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Voters are being purged in massive numbers in states with hotly contested elections. In others, new voter restrictions are coming in.

A recent Brennan Center report founds that Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina have been purging voters at an “alarming rate”

Georgia’s Secretary of State put 53,000 brand new voter registration forms “on hold” based on a controversial exact-matching program that removes voters from the roll based on minor discrepancies on voter registration forms, such as apostrophes being in the wrong places. 70% of these “on hold” voters are African American

Indiana lawmakers purged 469,000 voters in 2017 on the grounds that these voters had “moved” despite these voters never having filed a change of address form with the USPS (ok, not a last-minute one, but still, fishy)

In Missouri state lawmakers are deliberately misleading voters into believing they must present a photo ID to vote when state law allows Missouri residents to present non-photo ID to vote

North Dakota’s new and highly questionable voter ID law, effectively disenfranchises 10s of thousands of Native Americans who live on reservations where PO Boxes—and not residential addresses, are the norm