Posted on 09/05/2011 11:31:17 AM PDT by americanophile
As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots. "What has happened this year is the most significant setback to voting rights in this country in a century," says Judith Browne-Dianis, who monitors barriers to voting as co-director of the Advancement Project, a civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
LOL!
It has to be read to be believed.
Really, any able-bodied person getting a govt handout check should not be able to vote. The rat party would dry up.
What a joke.
Not allowing multiple or illegal votes is a war on voting?
Reinforces every snot-nosed lefty stereotype you can imagine.
No one has read Rolling Stone in over 40 years.
The magazine for wankers that arent cool enough for rock and roll or country for that matter.
A bunch of cocaine addled pseudo intellectuals engaging in mental masturbation.
What are all those people from Chicago going to do on election day when they don’t have to go to Wisconsin to vote...
Add Texas to the list.
Perry passed Voter ID.
Why don’t you tell us how you really feel? /s
I think this should be promoted everywhere. Make Ari snot nose famous and see how the independents react to Dems wanting felons and illegals and dead people to vote.
If you want illegal office holders, I present not one but TWO Democratic Senators: Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, and Al Franken of Minnesota.
Believe me, The rats are showing their colors and they will get what’s coming to them.
You cant run on lies and half truths forever.
Florida and Iowa barred all ex-felons from the polls...What is an ex-felon? You were either guilty or not.
If bottles of ink accidentally spilled over all the RS’s in the rack, I suppose the store or the distributor ends up footing the loss? How does that work?
Serve them right anyway.
“You just shot an unarmed man!”
“He shoulda armed himself, before he decorated his store with my friend.” Paraphrased, -Unforgiven-
This must be related to the practice of busing an entire facility of alzheimers patients to the polling station and having a social worker go in with each of them to assist them with voting....Busing, Hell. I worked for the MH/MR Dept. of Welfare in PA for ten years and SAW the Union stewards take absentee ballots into totally comatose MR’s and explain what the form was and they said”So you wanted to vote for Bill Clinton, didn’t you?” If there was never a negative answer, it was a Dem vote.
Seriously, the wussiest party in the entire world suppressed ANYTHING!? I’ve been doing this going on 40 years. I wish sometimes. Cut me a break.
Flaming, in need of a significant other.
TRANSLATION: Ubama was elected on the basis of vote fraud.
Nice attempt at deception there, blaming a few "Dixiecrats" for one hundred years of racist laws courtesy of none other than the "Democrats".
The author, being a Democrat sympathizer himself, just can't find a way to speak the truth, can he?
So essentially, the entire Democrat base is in our cross hairs.
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