| Let’s Get Serious About Voter Suppression | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 19 2012, 01:22 AM (5,166 Views) | |
| catdaddy25 | Aug 10 2012, 01:04 AM Post #91 |
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I wouldn't lie to you sweet kenny kenny,slow walking sunday ! The governor dismiss it and then found a judge to up held the new law and now they are going back and forth and right now it's held up until after the election. |
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| Mal | Aug 10 2012, 06:22 AM Post #92 |
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I wonder why not one of the republican supporters and backers of voter suppression from UTB, Black Republican and all the other fake names will comment about this story of a former Republican chair in Florida who admitted that voter suppression was going on and it was entirely racist as they hoped to stop black voters from voting. http://politics.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981505375 |
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| catdaddy25 | Aug 11 2012, 04:01 AM Post #93 |
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Because they can't handle the truth ! |
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| Mal | Aug 11 2012, 09:39 AM Post #94 |
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Funny since I posted my comments all the Republican blowhards have been silent and will not respond. |
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| Mal | Aug 15 2012, 05:45 AM Post #95 |
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WE NEED TO START WORKING WITH OUR DEMOCRATIC OFFICES NOW TO ENSURE WE ARE NOT DENIED THE VOTE IN NOVEMBER. Early Voting Restrictions Could Hurt Over Half of Ohio’s African Americans, Says Ministers’ Group Members of the African American Ministers Leadership Council (AAMLC), a program of People For the American Way Foundation, spoke out today against efforts to restrict early voting opportunities in four Ohio counties that are home to 56 percent of the state’s African American population. "Jim Crow is alive in the 21st century and evident in the struggles we still face for equal access to the ballot box," said Rev. Dr. Tony Minor of Cleveland, Ohio. "There are politicians doing the unthinkable: they are making it harder for their constituents to exercise our constitutionally guaranteed right to vote. And once again, these suppression efforts are aimed directly at African Americans in swing states.” Officials in four Ohio counties -- Cuyahoga, Franklin, Summit and Lucas -- are set to deny night and weekend early voting to their citizens. Those four counties are home to some of Ohio’s largest cities and over half its African American population. The state has already ended early voting for most residents in the final three days before the election. Last year, nearly 20 percent of early voters in Cuyahoga and Franklin counties went to the polls during that final time period. The African American Ministers Leadership Council, founded in 1997, has been working nationwide to help bring African Americans to the polls in every election, most recently through the newly-launched non-partisan “I Am A VESSEL and I Vote!” program. The new early voting restrictions in Ohio are a setback to efforts to increase turnout and ensure that every vote counts. "These efforts are intended to discourage and distract voters in the state of Ohio, but they will not succeed,” added Rev. Minor. “We have strengthened our efforts to educate our congregations and our communities about their rights and their civic responsibilities. Believe me, no matter how hard they try to stop us, we will fight back against these restrictions and we will show up at the polls and vote." http://www.pfaw.org/press-releases/2012/08/early-voting-restrictions-could-hurt-over-half-ohio-s-african-americans-says- |
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| kennyinbmore | Aug 15 2012, 07:31 AM Post #96 |
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Early voting is not anywhere in the constitution |
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| Mal | Aug 15 2012, 07:38 AM Post #97 |
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That is not the point Ken. The new rules about voting from early voting, postal voting, voting until midnight, voters who are abroad are not in the constitution but why are Republicans applying new rules to voting in predominantly Black, Latino and Democratic wards. |
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| kennyinbmore | Aug 15 2012, 08:28 AM Post #98 |
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That is the point. If you want to bring up an early voting issue as a disenfranchisement issue, you fail miserably. Early voting isn't mentioned in the constitution so you're not disenfranchised if you can't vote early. I work a 10 hour day and still get to the polls on election day, or sometimes I go before work. Epic Fail!!!! Bro. No one can keep me from voting Edited by kennyinbmore, Aug 15 2012, 08:30 AM.
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| Mal | Aug 15 2012, 09:09 AM Post #99 |
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Again you have missed the point Ken. The issue that is being made in Ohio and Florida is WHY have Republican officials only put attempts to limit early voting and voter ID laws in mostly black and Latino wards that vote heavily Democrat. That is the point that is being made. |
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| Rick1 | Aug 15 2012, 09:23 AM Post #100 |
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He don't vote democrat so he don't care. |
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