Is that the motto of the Missouri republican party? Just asking.

Today, at Mother Jones:

Missouri GOP: If Polls Are Open Too Long, Voters Will Commit Fraud

The state’s Republicans are advancing a measure to expand early voting, but Democrats say that’s not the whole story.

-By Dana Liebelson

Tue Jun. 17, 2014 6:00 AM EDT

….In early May, after hundreds of volunteers collected signatures in church basements and break rooms, citizens delivered a petition with more than 300,000 signatures to Missouri’s secretary of state, whose office has until August to verify the signatures and decide whether to place the measure on the November ballot. But Missouri Republicans won’t let that happen without a fight.

On April 1, a couple months after the petition drive had begun, Rep. Tony Dugger (R-Hartville) sponsored a competing measure. In May, the GOP-led House passed a version of the bill that expands early voting by six days-excluding the weekend-to a limited number of polling places, while also prohibiting same-day voter registration. If the citizens’ initiative is approved, both measures will appear on the ballot in November. “The testimony in the Legislature in favor of the sham early voting bill was actually testimony against early voting,” says Lara Granich, the director of Missouri Jobs With Justice. “That makes the real motivation behind it clear. They want it to be more difficult for folks to vote….”

Previously:

Early voting initiative petitions in Missouri (November 20, 2013)

Campaign Finance: momentum (March 2, 2014)

Campaign Finance: How about, “Make it an unassailable right?” (April 6, 2014)

Campaign Finance: oh, yeah, early voting (April 17, 2014)

Campaign Finance: confidence in early voting (May 29, 2014)

Campaign Finance: the real early voting initiative (June 13, 2014)