Editorial: It's pitch perfect that Voter ID measure tossed as a fraud

Editorial: It's pitch perfect that Voter ID measure tossed as a fraud

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a perverted, poetic justice kind of way, it's pitch perfect that in their alleged attempt to stop voter fraud, Missouri Republicans committed, well, fraud.

So concluded Cole County Circuit Court Judge Patricia Joyce, who last week ruled unconstitutional a joint resolution passed by the Missouri Legislature last year that would have placed on the November 2012 ballot an amendment to weaken Missourians' fundamental right to vote.

Judge Joyce, in no uncertain terms, accused the Republicans who wrote the summary language for the inaccurately titled "Voter Protection Act" of trying to pull a fast one on voters.

Most likely, Judge Joyce merely slowed down the steamroller that is the Republican Party's national campaign to suppress the votes of young people, minorities, poor people, elderly people and disabled

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