So in your eyes, race-based voter suppression -- regardless of its source -- is okay?
Here's a good article from FindLaw that talks about the (relatively recent) history of race-based votter suppression in the US:
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts.../20041029.html
In 1981's "model" effort, the Republican National Committee and the New Jersey Republican State Committee engaged in "widespread challenging of individual voters and an Election Day presence at African American and Latino precincts featuring armed guards and dire warnings of criminal penalties for voting offenses."
More recently, armed plainclothes officers from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement went to the homes of elderly black voters to investigate the March 2003 mayoral election. And in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, "five Republican poll watchers - including two staff members of Senator Tim Hutchinson's office - allegedly focused exclusively on African Americans, asking them for identification and taking photographs during the first day of early voting."
Perhaps the most famous recent example of racially-based vote suppression in the United States took place during the presidential election of 2000. The State of Florida ordered implementation of a purge list to remove voters from the rolls. The purge disenfranchised thousands of eligible voters - primarily African Americans. These citizens were prevented from casting ballots through their largely erroneous - and humiliating - classification as convicted felons.
"Scare tactics" or not, there is a history of keeping African Americans disenfranchised (with respect to the vote) on both sides, and there is recent evidence that many in the GOP don't see the value in such policies as the Voting Rights Act (Pres. Bush 41 was hesitant to sign the act, and only did so when his approval numbers started to tank after his flip-flop on 'no new taxes'), and that they'll stoop to any level to keep black folks from voting.
Whether you're a GOPer or a Dem, if people are being pressured not to vote in this country, you should take it as a personal affront for all that you stand for.