Posted on 09/22/2004 10:49:44 AM PDT by MIT-Elephant
"Millions Blocked from Voting in U.S. Election"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Millions of U.S. citizens, including a disproportionate number of black voters, will be blocked from voting in the Nov. 2 presidential election because of legal barriers, faulty procedures or dirty tricks, according to civil rights and legal experts.
The largest category of those legally disenfranchised consists of almost 5 million former felons who have served prison sentences and been deprived of the right to vote under laws that have roots in the post-Civil War 19th century and were aimed at preventing black Americans from voting.
But millions of other votes in the 2000 presidential election were lost due to clerical and administrative errors while civil rights organizations have cataloged numerous tactics aimed at suppressing black voter turnout. Polls consistently find that black Americans overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.
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Yahoo! was one of the original "portals," i.e., web sites that competed to be selected by surfers as their Home Page. The first portal was Netscape, associated with the first browser.
It was a smart business model, and they have grown from their. The hard leftist twist in their news reporting is a more recent development, and some of it may simply be due to the fact that they reproduce wire service stories, and they are all getting further and further to the left.
Sorry, I just can't muster up any sympathy for the fact that criminals and insane people won't be allowed to vote. I only see that as a good thing. You must be able to demonstrate a minimum level of responsibility and inurement to civil responsibility in order to effect public policy in this country.
I can understand why Kerry would want those votes though. You'd have to be a criminal or insane to vote for him.
Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to deny the vote to aliens and dead people.
The author hasn't the sense to realize that to commit and be found guilty of a felony is to lose one's right to public participation - voting included. It's just one of the punishments.
Dumb reporter...
How DARE they presume that barring criminals from voting will adversely affect the black community more than the white community?! They're RACISTS, RACISTS!!! Oh, wait, they're DEMOCRATS? Nevermind.
Felons lose a lot of rights when they are convicted. Good. Let's keep it that way and keep electing Republicans who are all for law and order.
DNC - Party of the felons, by the felons and for the felons.
That cigarette incident occured in my (latest) home state of Wisconsin, where Gore won by less than one vote per precinct. When my surgeon father visited a hospital in Chicago, the host doctor brought out some cadavers..."everybody be careful, these guys are still registered voters."
And another thing - why didn't Gore get more flack for having Young Richard Dailey involved in his campaign? Imagine if Bush had anyone peripherally connected with, say, the Nixon cabinet - we'd never hear the end of it. Remember Dailey's father delivered Chicago and the presidency to Kennedy.
A young man was applying for his DL. I was sitting right behind him and heard the whole conversation. His English was very bad. he was from Mexico. At no time did the examiner ask for a green card, proof of citizenship or anything. Her final words to him were, Do you want to register to vote? When I had my turn, I asked her, how do you know if this man is even a citizen? She replied, "We aren't required to ask!" I said, "Yes but you just registered him to vote? She said,"Well he said he was!" I was so stunned! I had always wondered how my former boss (who is not an American citizen) was able to vote the past few elections!
Motor Voter is FRAUD!
You're getting very close, but they are really trying to imply that being black is the felony.
This is one of the most incredibly stupid articles I've read here on FR. How, in good conscience - no strike that - with ANY conscience, can this reporter tie words like "felon" and "disenfranchised" in the same sentence? And then have the gall to blame this long-standing fact on the Republican Party. Indeed, the dims have gone off the deep end. Trying to elicit support for felons to vote is beyond the pale...
Well, if the "disproportioned number of black voters" were not a disproportionate part of the crime stats maybe they wouldn't have this problem. Thank you Jesse and Al and all the other race opportunists. Just keep 'em down on the plantation and your donations will continue. It would be the end of you if they actually learned about capitalism and self-sufficency, rather than victimhood.
What a waste of so many potential contributors to our society. Keep preaching your divisive rhetoric so they will send in the money.
And there ya have it.
Al, Al, the felons pal!
Ain't it sad? Actually, this kind of crap combined with all the non-citizen voting plus double-dipping seasoned citizens makes me lose my respect for the sanctity of the democracy...it makes me want to register in the three states I've lived in the past year and vouteur au trois. Although I'm not going to commit felony - I might unjustly lose my voting rights! *yack*
blah, blah, blah... they've been blocked for a while last i heard.
That said, we should start looking into a "Repatriation" process, where ex-cons can go before a court and show the court that they have stayed clean, crime free for say.... 7 years, and receive their right to vote back.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if such a procedure already exists.
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