A Step Toward Restoring Voting Rights (NYT barf alert)

New York Times ^ | January 18, 2014 | The Editorial Board

[Artie]

“they would begin to restore justice to a deeply damaged electoral process.”

Does this mean that the dead actually have to show up to cast a ballot?

[Lazamataz]

Does this mean that the dead actually have to show up to cast a ballot?

Geez, that's just silly!

Don't be silly.

......they still get to send in Absentee ballots.

[txrefugee]

The Poor can scrape up their IDs for food stamps and other freebies, but only at the voting booth is this too great a burden. It’s very obvious that Democrats want to maintain their election fraud across the fruited plain.

[Artie]

.they still get to send in Absentee ballots.

That would be a carve out for Chicago only.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

One of my rights is that my vote not be made ineffective by anyone's illegal vote!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The Republicans supporting this idea must be utterly, totally rotten, thinking that they or their states can somehow profit from oppressing southern states.

Seriously, this is as repugnant as a “pro-slavery Republican”.

[SunkenCiv]

> This bill, if enacted, would automatically put the voting process of four states—Georgia, Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi—under the control of Eric Holder’s Justice Department.

Thanks Brad from Tennessee.