Romney’s party saw the writing on the wall early, and set about to disenfranchise the young the elderly and minority voters with claims of non-existent voter fraud. A few hundred thousand people here or there can mean a win for the party which is clearly worried about letting those people have their say at the polls. It was all enough to cause self-described ‘opinionated,suburban Jewish mother’ Lauren Mayer to morph into an old southern blues singer.