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"I don't want everybody to vote," the influential conservative activist Paul Weyrich told a gathering of evangelical leaders in 1980. "As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

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At a minimum, nine states with 91 electoral votes, or one-third of the 270 needed to win the presidency will be affected, most significantly, Florida, with 29 electoral votes.

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the end of voter registration work by one organization, the League of Women Voters, whose spokesperson said, "Despite the fact that the League of Women Voters is one of the nation’s most respected civic organizations, with a 91-year history of registering and educating voters, we will be unable to comply with the egregious provisions contained in [this bill]."Wiki

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In September 2011 Maine’s secretary of state sent a threatening letter to hundreds of college students who were legally registered to vote in the state, implying that many of them were in violation of election law and suggesting they correct this by unregistering in Maine. The list of college students targeted for this letter came directly from the Maine Republican Party Chairman.

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Poll watchers in Harris County, Texas -- where a Tea Party group launched an aggressive anti-voter fraud effort -- were accused of "hovering over" voters, "getting into election workers' faces" and blocking or disrupting lines of voters who were waiting to cast their ballots as early voting got underway yesterday.

"We've gotten a number of reports -- quite a few out of the Houston area -- that poll watchers, King Street Patriot training poll watchers, are following a voter after they've checked them out and stand right behind them," lawyer Chad Dunn said. There's at least a dozen reports that they could confirm with witnesses, he said. "Interestingly, it's all in the polling places in Hispanic and African-American areas," he added.

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Non-existent "Black Democratic Trust of Texas" distributed fliers telling voters not to vote "straight ticket Democratic" because "it is actually voting for Republicans." ABC affiliate KTRK reported on October 27 that misleading fliers were handed out and left on windshields at a predominantly African-American polling place in Houston. The fliers read:

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Republicans are trying to trick us! When you vote straight ticket Democratic, it is actually voting for Republicans and your vote doesn't count. We are urging everyone to VOTE for BILL WHITE. A VOTE for BILL WHITE is a VOTE for the ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC ticket. We have fought too hard to let Republicans use voting machines to deny us our basic rights. We must guard the change andNOT VOTE STRAIGHT TICKET DEMOCRAT!"

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"Democratic Trust of Texas" does not exist.

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Elderly voters complained they were harassed by "two unidentified white women" who came to their homes in Bowie County to interrogate them about their mail-in ballot applications. The article describes the women as "middle-aged, local Republican activists who had accessed publicly available information about which voters had requested mail-in ballots":

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The complaint claims that the women showed up unannounced this week at the home of 78-year-old Willard Wherry, of Dekalb, who had voted by mail. The pair proceeded to grill Wherry about who had helped him to fill out his mail-in ballot, repeatedly questioning whether anyone had showed up at his home to assist him. "We are just trying to be sure no one is trying to coax someone to vote," one of the woman said, according to Hebert's complaint.

The women then went to a local senior citizens center to question whether five residents had received improper assistance in voting, as well as the home of L.E. Bohannon, a 79-year-old African American voter from DeKalb, the complaint says: "Then they pulled out a copy of form with his signature on it and they asked if that was his signature. They asked him who helped him fill out the form." Molly Beth Malcolm, a local Democratic consultant, spoke directly with some of the alleged victims and claims the incidents are racially discriminatory. "They're not going around to older Anglos, but the African-American community," she says.

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On October 8, WLS-TV in Chicago reported that Mark Kirk, GOP senatorial candidate in Illinois, was secretly recorded telling state Republican leaders that he had hired a "voter integrity squad" to concentrate on four regions that are populated by large numbers of African-American voters. According to WLS-TV, Kirk said, "These are lawyers and other people that will be deployed in key, vulnerable precincts, for example, South and West sides of Chicago, Rockford, Metro East/" Kirk was not aware he was being taped at the time. The Kirk campaign later confirmed that the congressman made the remarks, for which he was widely criticized.

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