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3. “We are in the midst of the greatest coordinated legislative attack on voting rights since the dawn

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Wed Nov 28, 2012, 09:55 PM

Nov 2012

of Jim Crow,” says NAACP President Benjamin Jealous. “Voter ID laws are nothing but reincarnated poll taxes and liter acy tests, and ex-felon voting bans serve the same purpose today as when they were created in the wake of the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteeing ex-slaves the vote—suppressing voting numbers among people of color.”

This is something to keep in mind from here on in....

http://www.thenation.com/blog/165077/koch-brothers-alec-and-savage-assault-democracy#

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