Voter ID, other initiatives follow GOP’s resurgence
36 states seek stiffer voting rules
By Valerie Richardson
The Washington Times
Sunday, October 23, 2011
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Voters in Maine, Mississippi and Washington will decide election-reform questions this November, joining a wave of 36 states that in 2011 moved to increase identification requirements, limit the early-voting period, or toughen up registration rules.
“We’ve been seeing quite a lot of legislation to strengthen voter identification laws and create voter identification laws where they don’t exist,â€