Repukes find another way to deny American citizens the right to vote.

[Elwood P Dowd]

Just keep giving them traffic tickets that they can't pay and then take away their drivers license. It costs them their jobs, forces them into deeper poverty, and without a drivers license they can no longer vote.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/us/with-drivers-license-suspensions-a-cycle-of-debt.html?rref=us&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&pgtype=article

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As a result, some states have begun suspending driver’s licenses for unsatisfied debts stemming from any criminal case, from misdemeanors like marijuana possession to felonies in which court costs can reach into the tens of thousands of dollars. In Tennessee, almost 90,000 driver’s licenses have been suspended since its law was enacted in 2011.

Kenneth Seay of Lebanon, Tenn., must pay $4,509.22 in fines, court costs and fees to recover his suspended driver’s license. Credit Joe Buglewicz for The New York Times

Tennessee’s law has become part of a broader debate over criminal justice debt, a national issue since a Justice Department report faulted Ferguson, Mo., for a law enforcement system that focused aggressively on raising revenue and jailing people who could not pay.

Many drivers who have lost their licenses in Tennessee, too poor to pay what they owe and living in places with limited public transportation, have done what Mr. Seay did. They have driven anyway, resulting in courts so clogged with “driving while suspended” cases that some judges dispatch them 10 at a time.

Each time Mr. Seay was caught, he racked up new fines and fees on top of the old. As a repeat offender, he would often be jailed, causing him to lose his job, and placed on probation, which carries an additional fee of $40 a month. More recently, he has been jailed for violating probation because he fell behind on those payments. Except for odd jobs, he has been unemployed for about a year, partly because he finally swore off driving.

“If I could get my license back, that would be the most wonderful thing that happened to me in my life,” Mr. Seay, 44, said.

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[msongs]

1. from obama down dems are pretty much OK with this. some lip flapping but that'sabout all nt

[Elwood P Dowd]

2. Yet they have plenty of time to promote TPP while our citizens are losing their jobs and right

to vote. Amazing how our so called "leaders" have abandoned their own supporters.

[Art_from_Ark]

4. It is truly cringe-worthy, isn't it?

Or -worthy, for that matter.

[freshwest]

3. This was outlawed years ago in my state. Keep pushing in your state in the legislature, Elwood. n/t