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GoLeft TV

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Tue Aug 4, 2015, 05:00 PM Aug 2015

GOP Could Win 2016 By Attacking Voting Rights



As the 2016 election rapidly approaches, some Americans aren’t nearly as excited as others to head to the polls. Its not because they don’t care about politics or the future of the country; its because they aren’t certain if they’ll even be able to cast a ballot.

Ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, 22 states enacted new, restrictive voter ID laws that were designed specifically to prevent minorities from voting. These minorities make up a huge chunk of the Democratic Party’s voting base, so Republican state leaders did all that they could to prevent Democrats from making it to the polls.

Today, almost nothing has changed, and these laws and other restrictive voting laws are still on the books in states like Texas, Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, and New Jersey – almost all of which are states that could easily tip this next election one way or the other.

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
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GOP Could Win 2016 By Attacking Voting Rights (Original Post) GoLeft TV Aug 2015 OP
Proves once again that they can't win a fair election. n/t Lil Missy Aug 2015 #1
The GOP is the party of voter suppression and can win an election without cheating Gothmog Aug 2015 #2
So Why the FUCK aren't the Democrats Raising Hell About this? Chasstev365 Aug 2015 #3

Chasstev365

(5,191 posts)
3. So Why the FUCK aren't the Democrats Raising Hell About this?
Tue Aug 4, 2015, 10:22 PM
Aug 2015

We all know the Republicans are evil and will stop at nothing to cheat and steal elections. But Dam it; I'm tired of the wimpocrats not even trying to raise a firestorm of protest over this. Do they not care? It boggles the mind that you wouldn't at least read talking points about how the GOP no longer believes in American Democracy or one person, one vote.

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