Since the GOP landslide in 2010 there has been a massive attack on the voting rights of some states…..mostly those controlled by the GOP……..it began with the proper ID and went to Hell from there……. limiting voting location and hours and early voting…….since those days the Supreme Court has made sure that any attempts to try and limit the people voting has been covered by the law…….
Of course the Dems went into a frenzy attacking all these so-called programs and incidents…..but with little success……hard to win an argument when you are out numbered in the state legislatures…..
Predictably the Dems will use this issue in their run to the election in 2016…..and that includes Hillary…….
Hillary Clinton says she wants to make voting easier and Republicans—especially Jeb Bush, Rick Perry, Chris Christie, and Scott Walker—have been doing their best to make it harder. In a speech in Houston yesterday, she called for sweeping moves to expand voting access, including 20 days of early voting and automatic registration when eligible voters turn 18, the Hill reports. She accused the GOP of “fear-mongering about a phantom epidemic of election fraud” as part of a systematic campaign to prevent millions of people—especially minority, young, and low-income voters—from going to the polls and asked Republicans why they were “so scared of letting citizens have their say.”
Automatic voter registration happens in most major democracies, but a quarter of eligible Americans aren’t registered—and since many of them are from Democratic-leaning groups, there has been little bipartisan support for bringing in automatic registration, the LA Times reports. In her speech yesterday, Clinton slammed the 2013 Supreme Court decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and said she had been defending voting rights for decades, pointing to her work registering voters in Texas for George McGovern’s campaign in 1972, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Sounds like a plan, right?
More like idle campaign promises……people have got to understand that all this is just pandering…….she will do little…..the fate of voting rights is in the hands of the states and as long as the GOP controls the legislature there will be NO change……..
Yes, something must be done…..but talking is NOT the answer!
Do not believe it until you see it!
For some reason, this topic does not get a lot of spotlight, but it should get more than it is getting.
The voting rights act is in danger of being stripped away, and most of the media is treating this like it is not even happening. Tell your friends, neighbors, and family to get involved and to stop the government from taking away minority voting rights.
Seniors are being hit hard also……but before we can fight this successfully we must fight the creeping racism that is disguised as concern and we need to elect people so No one party can control the state……
Agree
I appreciate the re-blog……maybe it will help drive the conversation…..chuq
I hope so too.
If anything we need less people voting, not more. How many people only vote because they feel it is their duty, only to base their decision on a campaign ad. We have all seen the YouTube video’s of people who couldn’t pass a Civics 101 class interviewed while standing in line to vote.
If you had to pass a very basic test to vote, I’d say participation would be down t0 25%.
Maybe the answer to stop worrying about evolution in school and teach them civics