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struggle4progress

(118,032 posts)
Fri Jan 6, 2012, 10:17 AM Jan 2012

Voter suppression isn’t robust debate

“Come out to vote on November 6. Before you come to vote make sure you pay your parking tickets, motor vehicle tickets, overdue rent, and most important any warrants.”

That’s the text of a flier distributed in African-American and Hispanic communities the weekend before Election Day of the Ehrlich-Townsend gubernatorial race (talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/balt.vote.suppress.html).

Nov. 6 would be too late to vote; it was a Wednesday. Failure to pay the rent or parking or motor vehicle tickets is not a barrier to voting; neither is an outstanding warrant.

The Maryland General Assembly first outlawed voter suppression efforts in 1896, making it illegal to use “force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery, or reward, or offer … or [to] otherwise unlawfully, either directly or indirectly, influence or attempt to influence any voter in giving his vote.” ...

http://www.gazette.net/article/20120106/OPINION/701069680/1033/voter-suppression-isn-t-robust-debate&template=gazette

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Voter suppression isn’t robust debate (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2012 OP
Hear, hear! voter suppression is an extreme threat ! nofurylike Jan 2012 #1
Spot on Number23 Jan 2012 #2
Hear! Hear! : "they [the 'dems=repugs' idiots] are doing exactly what Repubs want them to do." YES. nofurylike Jan 2012 #3
You kind of just blew my mind Number23 Jan 2012 #4
it blows my mind, too, ceaselessly. nofurylike Jan 2012 #5

nofurylike

(8,775 posts)
1. Hear, hear! voter suppression is an extreme threat !
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 06:21 AM
Jan 2012

and threatening democracy is the foremost repug goal - or, rather, destroying it is.

this is an urgent matter. voter disenfranchisement is taking place all over this country.

they have no shame. they have to cheat to win, and they see cheating as proving they are more "fit."

thank you for posting that, struggle4progress.

Number23

(24,544 posts)
2. Spot on
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 08:19 PM
Jan 2012

Every time I see some "liberal" doing the "both parties are the same" crying game and loudly wondering what the point of voting is, I can't help but think that they are doing exactly what Repubs want them to do.

Republicans in just about every county in damn near every state are VOCAL and BLATANT about the fact that they want to reduce the number of people in this country that are eligible to vote. They are happy to do that through the most despicable, racist, immoral means available. And they do this because as it has been proven time and time again, when turnout is low, REPUBS WIN.

Which is why minorities and the poor need to be the first ones at the polls every election and should be tossing their hats in the ring to become elected office themselves at every opportunity.

nofurylike

(8,775 posts)
3. Hear! Hear! : "they [the 'dems=repugs' idiots] are doing exactly what Repubs want them to do." YES.
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 04:29 AM
Jan 2012

Last edited Mon Jan 9, 2012, 05:03 AM - Edit history (1)

that suppression of the vote is the repugs' main election strategy, since they know that they really are the statistical minority.
YES!! : "minorities and the poor need to be the first ones at the polls every election and should be tossing their hats in the ring"! that is EXACTLY what we need to do!!

if we all fight that suppression by asserting voting rights, and if we all turn out to vote, we are a massive majority!! that whining Professional Left "loudly wondering what the point of voting is," is the damnable handmaiden of white-supremacists!!
it kills me.

we work on to protect our elections!!!

thank you, #23!

Number23

(24,544 posts)
4. You kind of just blew my mind
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 05:13 PM
Jan 2012

"that whining Professional Left "loudly wondering what the point of voting is," is the damnable handmaiden of white-supremacists!!"

Wow. I mean -- WOW! That is an extraordinarily powerful statement. And for what it's worth, I absolutely COULD NOT agree with you more.

nofurylike

(8,775 posts)
5. it blows my mind, too, ceaselessly.
Tue Jan 10, 2012, 03:30 AM
Jan 2012

thank you so much, #23. that means a lot to me, coming from you.

i feel we must confront the election saboteurs with that truth every time their egos block their view of it. i can not even imagine being someone who could throw everyone, all of the most vulnerable, to the mercilessness of repugs, just because everything i want done is not getting done as fast as i want it to be. the very idea blows my mind!!

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