don't welfare cards have their picture on them in Alabama???
Posted on 10/17/2015 1:11:06 PM PDT by jazusamo
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Saturday accused Alabama lawmakers of advancing “discriminatory” laws to roll back voting rights, as she looks to shore up support with black voters.
In her first visit to Alabama as a presidential candidate, Clinton elevated her call for voting rights as she condemned the state’s decision last week to close 31 driver’s license offices. Nearly all of the offices were in predominantly black neighborhoods.
She urged Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley and his Republican-controlled legislature to keep the offices open, and “not just for one day a month."
“Here in Alabama, without the right kind of ID, it’s nearly impossible to vote,” she said as the packed room boomed with applause.
“It’s hard to believe we are back having this same debate about whether every American gets a chance to vote,” she declared, raising her voice as the cheers grew louder. “This is a blast from the Jim Crow past.”
Alabama’s decision to shutter driver’s license offices – which the governor said is a result of budget cuts – has drawn attention nationwide because of the state’s strict voter ID law passed last year.
Democrats have claimed the decision is politically driven because each of the closures takes place in neighborhoods with populations that are at least 75 percent black.
Clinton described the law as "discriminatory and demeaning” – and one which should be repealed.
In Alabama and across the country, Clinton said states should do more to make it easier to vote. She pointed to efforts by states like Oregon, which recently made voter registration automatic for anyone who receives a driver’s license.
She also called for early voting days, weekend and evening voting, and restoring the voting rights of former convicts who have “done their time.”
Alabama, which critics say has one of the nation’s worst records of minority voting rights, has cracked down further in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling in 2013 that empowered states to shape their own voting laws. Before 2013, states had to seek approval from the Justice Department before enacting the laws.
Clinton delivered remarks to a convention of the Alabama Democratic Conference – a group formed in the 1960s to encourage black Americans to vote Democratic. Tickets to the event cost about $150, according to AL.com.
Earlier Saturday, Clinton hosted a fundraiser that cost $500 per ticket and up.
Obama will get voter laws done his way, you can bet on it for the 2016 elections.
I have no idea why “pandering “ was the first thing that popped into my head.
Make it easy to vote? In my ‘hood, I registered once. Been voting here for over 20 years. Not as easy as automatic registration at a drive-through window at a fried chicken place, but not hard.
Ms. Hillary is getting more and more annoying. No end to her pandering and her lies.
don't welfare cards have their picture on them in Alabama???
Amen to that.
The automatic motor voter registration law Moonbeam Brown just signed in CA is a complete farce, they’ll have hundreds of thousands if not millions of illegal aliens registered as voters.
This woman has no credibility or moral standing on anything.
“Clinton delivered remarks to a convention of the Alabama Democratic Conference – a group formed in the 1960s to encourage black Americans to vote Democratic. Tickets to the event cost about $150, according to AL.com. “
Can I use my EBT card to charge that?
Ugh, I’m trapped in Newark airport having to watch and hear her screeching on this - over and over and over...
Why is it that there is not ONE Republican who will call this TRUE attempt at further voter fraud for what it is???
She also called for early voting days, weekend and evening voting, and restoring the voting rights of former convicts who have “done their time.”
rapists????
Rats hate it when it’s made more difficult to commit voter fraud. Get back on your broom and fly away, Shillary.
It’s obvious what demographic Hillary is appealing to. Her stance on wealth redistribution, gun control, abortion, homosexuality, and foreign trade, not to mention illegal immigration and race, mark her as a clear far-left demagogue. She is out to get the marginalized, misfit, malcontent vote. There’s nothing mainstream about her, as if anyone ever thought there was.
Ask 50 people in those districts she panders to to tell you about Jim Crow laws, and 50 won’t have a clue what you are talking about.
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