“Never vote for a party that wants to prevent you from voting.”

So a news story came out analyzing South Carolina’s new voter photo identification law. The analysis by the Associated Press finds that the law would hit black precincts the hardest, disenfranchising nearly half of the black voters at the historically black college in Columbia, South Carolina.

The Republican reaction to that fact:

This guy is the political strategist for the South Carolina Senate Republican Caucus, who leads internet efforts for such Republican illuminati as Jim DeMint and Joe Wilson. He is celebrating the racial discrimination created by the Republican bill, and that is only natural, because that was the intent of the bill in the first place.

Republicans desperately want to keep blacks from voting, but in general they’d rather keep everyone but the monied gentry from voting. You don’t have to believe me. Listen to Mike Huckabee:

“Make a list. Call them and ask them, ‘Are you going to vote for Issue 2 and are you going to vote for it?'” Huckabee advised, according to an audio recording provided by a foe of the initiative. “If they say no, well, you just make sure that they don’t go vote. Let the air out of their tires on election day. Tell them the election has been moved to a different date. That’s up to you how you creatively get the job done.”

Here the former pastor and presidential candidate, who is slowly increasing in size again now that he is not running for office, was talking about the vote to repeal the anti-worker and anti-union bill in Ohio. You see, if you disagree with Republicans, you don’t get to vote either. Below, we have a chart from the New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice, which released a study detailing Republican Voter Suppression efforts across the country.

The study found the following:

1. 3.2 million voters affected by new photo ID laws. New photo ID laws for voting will be in effect for the 2012 election in five states (Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin), which have a combined citizen voting age population of just under 29 million. 3.2 million (11 percent) of those potential voters do not have state-issued photo ID. Rhode Island voters are excluded from this count, because Rhode Island’s new law’s requirements are significantly less onerous than those in the other states.

2. 240,000 additional citizens and potential voters affected by new proof of citizenship laws. New proof of citizenship laws will be in effect in three states (Alabama, Kansas, Tennessee), two of which will also have new photo ID laws. Assuming conservatively that those without proof of citizenship overlap substantially with those without state-issued photo ID, we excluded those two states. The citizen voting age population in the remaining state (Alabama) is 3.43 million; 240,000 (7 percent) of those potential voters do not have documentary proof of citizenship.

3. 202,000 voters registered in 2008 through voter registration drives that have now been made extremely difficult or impossible under new laws. Two states (Florida and Texas) passed laws restricting voter registration drives, causing all or most of those drives to stop. In 2008, 2.13 million voters registered in Florida and, very conservatively, at least 8.24 percent or 176,000 of them did so through drives. At least 501,000 voters registered in Texas, and at least 5.13 percent or 26,000 of them did so via drives.

4. 60,000 voters registered in 2008 through Election Day voter registration where it has now been repealed. Maine abolished Election Day registration. In 2008, 60,000 Maine citizens registered and voted on Election Day.

5. One to two million voters who voted in 2008 on days eliminated under new laws rolling back early voting. The early voting period was cut by half or more in three states (Florida, Georgia and Ohio). In 2008, nearly 8 million Americans voted early in these states. An estimated 1 to 2 million voted on days eliminated by these new laws.

6. At least 100,000 disenfranchised citizens who might have regained voting rights by 2012. Two states (Florida and Iowa) made it substantially more difficult or impossible for people with past felony convictions to get their voting rights restored. Up to one million people in Florida could have benefited from the prior practice; based on the rates of restoration in Florida under the prior policy, 100,000 citizens likely would have gotten their rights restored by 2012. Other voting restrictions passed this year that are not included in this estimate.

President Clinton always said that you can never trust or vote for a Party that wants to prevent you from voting. He is right.