Will Voter Suppression Efforts Backfire?

Everyday we hear of new efforts to suppress the rights of certain segments of the voting population. Just last week a Federal court ruled that Ohio's cuts to early voting days and elimination of same day voter registration violated the Voting Rights Act's ban on racial discrimination. See this:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ohios-voting-restrictions-rejected-federal-court

Now, ask yourself why Ohio wants to restrict voting rights? I think you know the answer. They are trying to make it harder to vote on Blacks and other populations that tend to vote for Democrats.

Many of the professionals who study voting patterns believe that these voting restrictions are a key variable in the midterm election. Pundits are wondering whether these restrictions will tilt close races in favor of the Republicans. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/us/politics/voting-restrictions-are-key-variable-in-midterm-elections.html?_r=0

In North Carolina, there has been a non-partisan effort to register new voters. Hundreds of NC voters have been disenfranchised by the new voter laws in that state. Just read this story of an Afganistan war veteran:

"Craig Thomas of Granville County, North Carolina, registered to vote before he deployed toAfghanistan with the US Army. After serving abroad for eighteen months, he went to vote early in the state’s primary on April 30. He returned from Afghanistan to the same house, in the same precinct, but was told at the polls that there was “no record of registration” for him.

In the past, Thomas could have re-registered during the early voting period and cast a regular ballot under the state’s same-day registration system. But same-day registration was one of the key electoral reforms eliminated by the North Carolina legislature last year when it passed the nation’s most onerous package of voting restrictions. In 2014, Thomas had to cast a provisional ballot, which was not counted. After fighting abroad, he was disenfranchised at home."  http://www.thenation.com/blog/181566/hundreds-voters-are-disenfranchised-north-carolinas-new-voting-restrictions#   A preliminary injunction was not granted to prevent these laws from going into effect, but, "An expedited appeal to block the new restrictions before the midterms will be heard by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Charlotte on September 25."

According to this article in Think Progress , "more than 24,000 voters in the ten states with strict laws that prevent citizens from casting a ballot if they do not show photo ID at the polls."
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/09/10/3565571/24000-voters-could-be-disenfranchised-in-november-because-they-are-transgender/

Previously (http://pageposts1123.blogspot.com/2014/09/voting-laws-impact-on-voter-turnout.html), we looked at voting laws' impact on voter turnout. What impact do you think these efforts to restrict voting rights will have on the people whose rights are being disenfranchised? Will they simply discourage them and cause them to give up and stay home? Or will these efforts backfire and spur those voters to do everything in their power to cast a vote this year? What would you do if they were trying to keep you from voting?

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