Keep A Check On Your Voter Registration

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http://www.gregpalast.com/trumps-gop-hitman-whos-stealing-your-vote-the-best-democracy-money-can-buy-podcast/
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A group called Numbers USA gave $100,000 to a little town called Farmers Branch, Texas. The town gave that $100,000 to Kobach to defend a racist law that was immediately thrown out by the courts. Numbers USA is funded by something called Donors’ Trust—which, in turn, is the funnel for the funds from the Charles and David Koch. So, where does Kris Kobach get his pin money? He gets it from the brothers Koch, through this chain of front organizations. - See more at: http://www.gregpalast.com/trumps-gop-hitman-whos-stealing-your-vote-the-best-democracy-money-can-buy-podcast/#sthash.nzFBT4xj.dpuf
more at link


Follow-up on what the League of Women Voters is doing to try and help look at the last elections ballots that seem to have been manipulated by Kansas officials. Kobach was the Kansas Secretary of State.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1052660


Hope Texas young people, who may be paying on school loans, are not going to be disenfranchised like young Kansans. The Kansas Group has a lot of stories about the failure of State arranged by Republicans in control there. Many there are questioning how Republicans still remain in office after destroying the state's economy.

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1. Texas Rep. Veasey: Let’s act on Voting Rights Act

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article79409512.html

BY MARIA RECIO
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To Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, the Voting Rights Act is personal.

A former African-American state lawmaker who was elected to Congress in 2012, Veasey was able to compete in a district newly drawn for minority representation in North Texas.

But since the Supreme Court struck down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, Veasey has been concerned about its future. To urge Congress to rewrite and update the law, on Tuesday he’s announcing that he’s creating the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus.

DESPITE NUMEROUS CALLS TO ACTION FROM HOUSE DEMOCRATS AND EVEN HOUSE REPUBLICANS WHO REMEMBER THE BIPARTISAN SPIRIT OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT, THREE YEARS LATER, CONGRESS HAS FAILED TO ACT AND UPDATE THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT.
Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article79409512.html#storylink=cpy