GOP Vote-Blocking Tactics

One - Tougher Voter ID Requirements
Some time ago, only Georgia and Indiana required photo IDs. Since then, 34 states have introduced photo ID laws, five enacted them; governors vetoed five; and other states are considering them. A 2006 Brennan Center study found nearly one in five citizens over 65 -- 8 million -- lack a current, government-issued photo-ID. Some people over age 65 were born before recording births was standard practice. 3.2 million voters in Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin would find voting more difficult.

Two - Create Hurdles to Get Required ID -- Even Charge For It.

Three - Intimidate Voter Registration Groups
Seven states tried to add restrictions on voter registration groups and such laws passed in Florida and Texas. Florida has a rigorous schedule for turning in applications and errors result in fines.

Four - Try to Eliminate Same-Day Registration
The citizens of Maine shot down an attempt and Ohio had a referendum on it.

Five - Curtail Early Voting
This is done mostly by reducing the number of days.

Six - Ban Felons From Voting
Florida is notorious for erroneous lists. Iowa has joined Florida. A total of at least 5.3 million ex-felons are denied the vote across the nation.

Seven - Bleed Election Administrators' Budgets
Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin have limited the operating hours of, or closed state offices where residents can get required photo IDs. In the three states above there are a total of 34 counties with no Department of Public Safety offices, including four where the Hispanic population is more than 75 percent. Alabama closed Motor Vehicle Division offices in counties with heavy concentrations of minority voters.

CAUTION: The listing above may be as much as six years old, so it should be taken as more of the ways that voting can be restricted, rather than relying on the number of states and counties that restrict voting in some way. The Alabama action is a more recent one.

ADDENDUMS:
*States adopted 63 new abortion restrictions in 2017. The number goes up to 71 if restrictions on family planning, like defunding Planned Parenthood are included.

*The Pennsylvania state House and Senate sent $1 million to anti-choice efforts like "crisis pregnancy centers." Crisis pregnancy centers also got funding in North Carolina.

*Minnesota state legislators passed a bill to place licensing requirements on abortion providers. The bill was similar to Texas's HB2.

*Three quarters of a federally chartered board advising the National Park Service abruptly quit, frustrated that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has refused to meet with them or convene a single meeting last year.

*In a Reuters interview on January 17, President Trump said the bipartisan DACA deal was "horrible" on border security and "very, very weak."