voter registration, cut early voting, banned felons from voting for ten years. and attempted to purge thousands of voters from the state's public rolls. luckily after public outrage, the voter purge failed. meanwhile, states like pennsylvania and wisconsin put in place strict voter id laws. pennsylvania's law was eventually struck down, but misleading signs and billboards like this one were put up to try and trick voters. these suppression efforts directly targeted minority in low income areas there is no doubt they were meant to help elect mitt romney as president of the united states, and republicans admitted it. >> voter id, which is going to allow governor romney to win the state of pennsylvania, done. >> ohio county gop chair doug price put it this way. he said, quote, we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate urban red african-american voter turnout machine.