Hillary Clinton Calls for Election Reform.

[elleng]

Source: nyt/ap

Potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton kicked off a series of speeches with a call to combat what she called an "assault on voting rights."

The former U.S. Secretary of State spoke on Monday in San Francisco at the American Bar Association's annual meeting after receiving the group's highest award for service to the law.

She told those in attendance that her upcoming speeches also would look at national security and the United States global leadership. But first she said she wanted to talk about deep flaws in the electoral system.

She said racial discrimination remains a serious problem and she again assailed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down a significant part of the Voting Rights Act.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/08/12/us/ap-us-hillary-clinton-lawyer-group.html?hp

[liberal N proud]

1. Hillary has always perused election reform.

I recall attending a town hall she held in 2005.

[zeemike]

9. What did she do when she was a senator?

Talk is cheep.
But we have had a series of stolen elections and no one in ether party does anything but talk...and it is cheep talk at that with vague references to election reform, which wind up being more black box voting.

I don't believe anything they say...I believe what they DO.

[Tunkamerica]

25. cheep?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

27. The bird looks like it's perusing something.

[TrollBuster9090]

39. I'll take chicken talk over no talk.

Spelling error not withstanding, Zeemike has a point. There has been all kinds of election fraud and election stealing, and NOT ONE of the elected Democrats has ever said a PEEP about it (pun intended). Why not? Probably because they're a little TOO worried about being mocked? We've got sworn testimony that GOP officials were looking for ways to hack and patch voting machines; along with numerous anecdotes about computer anomalies that always come out in the GOP's favor.

Electronic voting fraud is one thing, disenfranchising voters in plain sight, through voter ID, cutting back early voting etc. is another. It's not only an outrage, but it's true, and it's a great way to rally the base and shake people out of their complacency.

I agree that Hilary Clinton is probably making this her issue for shallow, tawdry reasons. Maybe she's not sincere about caring about it. But WHO CARES? If not ONE of the other Democrats is willing to make it an issue for legitimate reasons....I'LL TAKE THE TAWDRY REASONS.

[SunSeeker]

41. +1

[Mnpaul]

20. and in 2004

after that crap in Ohio

[Beacool]

2. Good.

I'm glad that she'll be speaking about it. Striking the Voting Rights Act was a disgrace.

[William769]

3. Kick & recommended.

[Cleita]

4. Great! How far is she willing to go?

I hope all the way to state funded elections and hand counted paper ballots.

[cprise]

36. All the way to Wall Street.

Imagine it: Voting reform as a service provided by a partnership between Goldman Sachs, Diebold and Walmart.

[DCBob]

5. I would call it election protection.

If the Repukes would just let the people vote there would be no need to reform anything.

[Purveyor]

6. Has she checked in on the NSA surveillance issue lately? I'd really like to hear her take on that

one.

[CTyankee]

29. OK, but don't take a positive and immediately turn it into a negative...let's hear what she has to

say, since she is doing a "policy series," in which she pretty much has to address the NSA. Just let's stop at the
"Yeah, but what about ____?" every time she opens her mouth. Let her get her opinions and her ideas out there and we can debate them fully and openly here on DU and elsewhere. It's only fair.

[DLnyc]

7. Refreshing to see someone bring this up EARLY

instead of waiting until 3 weeks before the election, when it's too late to get anyone registered and too late to stop the intimidations, purges, lack of machines and so on that prevent millions of voters from voting (most of whom, surprise surprise, would have voted for Democrats).

The Republican party: sometimes able to get almost one half of the votes, provided tens of millions of potential Democratic voters are kept out of the process.

[Iliyah]

8. Thats it, gopers don't want fair elections

because their base is getting smaller and smaller and plus they have no care about improving and helping the 99%ers.

2013 - with the gawd awful gutting of VRA we must fight all over again. USA going backwards.

[Beacool]

10. Here's a link to her speech.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/314513-2

[Old Codger]

11. should be

Federal laws on national elections, state laws on state elections states should not be able to determine who can vote in presidential elections

[freshwest]

21. Agreed.

[Festivito]

12. Nice step. I hope she doesn't think that this one item catapults her into the presidency.

She has a great mind. She can list the hole gamut of things that need renovation.

[Boom Sound 416]

13. she's been in public office since when?

and now it's a problem she wants to take on. When she has no means to achieve anything so therefore can't fail but cant be held accountable for failing.

[demwing]

14. maybe it's because she's only just now

at the point in her career when she carries the political capital to create change, not just demand it.

[Boom Sound 416]

22. It takes President for that

[demwing]

28. exactly /nt

[Beacool]

16. Did you listen to her speech or are you just mouthing off?

[Boom Sound 416]

23. Mostly mouthing off, but I'll have a listen and check back in

[Beacool]

33. OK, fair enough.

She mentioned that while in Congress they worked on this issue in 2006 (I think that was the year).

[demwing]

15. The entire artical is summed up

in the first 1/2 of the first sentence.

[UTUSN]

17. Well, just saying that she/we/Dems called for it in 2000. Nothing happened. n/t

[John2]

18. She sounds

like somebody that wants to be President.

[wordpix]

19. good! Now how about the assault on the environment? And what about jobs and infrastructure?

[juajen]

24. I am glad she is starting early.

Maybe it will spark some enthusiasm for change. Anything is better than sitting around doing nothing until it bites you in the arse.

[Hekate]

26. KnR. You go, girl!

When she's right, she's right.

[Kingofalldems]

30. Good news. K and R

[vkkv]

31. It's a shame that "voting rights" is even an issue now into our country's 237th year.

It's a shame that "voting rights" is even an issue now into our country's 237th year.

GOP = Greed over people.

[Liberalynn]

34. You said it.

[vkkv]

32. Voter Fraud by lawmakers does far more damage to the nation.

Voter Fraud by lawmakers helping their corporate campaign donors while pretending to be voting in support of people in their districts does far more damage to the nation.

[Fringe]

35. Oh yes, she is running.

I'm glad!

[Robbins]

37. Another sign

That she Is running for president In 2016.

[Little Star]

38. Thanks elleng! k&r

[Phlem]

40. any politician "calling" for something is just baiting.

Get it half done and I might listen, otherwise it's more "hope and change".

-p

[SunSeeker]

42. She's not in office. What do you suggest she do other than call/pressure for it? nt

[Phlem]

43. I didn't suggest she stop.

I've seen act 1 of this play over and over and over again, been there done that. It's really up to anyone else to fall for it. I was just putting it out there so we could all be better consumers.

But the notion that I give "someone" a hamburger today so that "that someone" will buy 2 tomorrow is for *^@.

We're talking about politicians here and the very fabric of our democracy, I see things seem to be getting worse in my opinion. Obama care done right is what I'm waiting for, jobs...lost cause I would imagine after signing 3 FTA's.

Sorry, it's just my OCD, and my number one hot button is making a mistake twice for all the same reasons.

-p

[SunSeeker]

44. Yeah, I didn't think you had anything to suggest. nt

[Phlem]

45. ooh

good one.