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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)Black Americans are not welcome in the voting booths.
Non white Americans are not welcome here, at all, in fact.
America is a dictatorship and fascist state, now. But arent you glad we dodged the bullet of that....cant say it, will get banned.
GrapesOfWrath
(525 posts)That vile zombie is back... oh gawd
riversedge
(70,299 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Figures...
irisblue
(33,023 posts)I get to my polling place @6:30 am, so I can vote before work @ 10 am. Previous years 4 machines, 15 minute wait. There are only 2 machines for voting, one for my precinct, one for the next precinct. At 6:30, b/c of this deliberate downsizing, there were already 30 people in line.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://freepress.org/article/none-dare-call-it-voter-suppression-and-fraud&ved=0ahUKEwjH4Nfa2JXVAhWCbj4KHfc8DG4QFggoMAE&usg=AFQjCNHd6EnzAd-MIl4Njod1LccOIkKcTg
Excellent article about Blackwell.
Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)klook
(12,165 posts)'In the fall of 2007, a young Democratic senator blocked President George W. Bushs nominee to the Federal Election Commission. His record of poor management, divisiveness, and inappropriate partisanship makes him an unacceptable nominee, the senator said, adding that he was particularly concerned with his efforts to undermine voting rights while that nominee was at the Department of Justice.
The senator was Barack Obama. The nominee was Hans A. von Spakovsky, whod devoted the previous two decades to rooting out suspected voter fraud, even when scant evidence of such electoral malefaction existed.
Von Spakovsky never forgot the slight. He spent the subsequent years that is, the Obama years continuing his calls into tighter voter identification laws, attempts that many say would disenfranchise poor and minority voters. He served as a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and on the Fairfax County Electoral Board in suburban Virginia, to which he wasnt asked to return for a second term in 2012. Hes a voter-suppression advocate, and he cant deny that with a straight face, a Democratic operative in Fairfax County told The Washington Post.'
- Trump's Election Boogeyman Wants to Make It Hard to Vote for Everyone but Republicans (Newweek)
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)this is fucking insane.