Protecting the Right to Vote By John J. Sweeney

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http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/outfront/vote.cfm

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Brothers and sisters, there is no more precious right than the right to vote—we believed that 40 years ago when we used the combined power of civil rights, labor, religion, women’s rights and student activism to pass the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

We believe it today and we will use our combined power—again and again—to defend the freedom of every citizen to participate fully in our Democracy, because there is no greater right than the right to vote.

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But the last two national elections proved that the enemies of full participation are still with us.



Millions of voters were disenfranchised by technology, by the trickery of lawyers, by the intimidation of vigilantes in our border states, by poll pirates in our inner cities and by voting officials who were careless and criminal.

[Lefty48197]

1. + all the big city African-Americans who were undercounted by the census

because of the Republicans.

[wli]

2. there is no right to vote anymore; it was revoked by Republicans n/t

[tommcintyre]

3. Re-authorization of the voting rights act is critical nt

[tommcintyre]

4. kick for it's importance

[autorank]

5. Solidarity! This is great. We need more major leaders doing this.

Maybe this will kick the DNC into some actioin! AFLCIO could be a major player in stopping election fraud.

Thanks I'm putting it on the ERD news today.