Bartle: Democracy is bad for the GOP

Speaking at a Senate committee hearing this afternoon, Sen. Matt Bartle (R-Lee Summitt) summed up GOP opposition to early voting legislation succinctly: the GOP won't make voting easier (with early voting) unless they can enact Photo ID legislation (to disenfranchise more than 200,000 voters).

Like Rep. Stanley Cox (R-Sedalia), the champion of GOP voter suppression efforts in the House, Bartle isn't really trying to conceal the partisan motivations behind attempts to make voting as inconvenient and burdensome as possible on behalf of the Republican Party.  I guess there's something to be said for honesty.

Wouldn't having more people involved in democracy be a good thing?  And wouldn't it be better for everyone if the GOP worried more about doing what voters want, and less about making voting onerous?