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U.S. Curtails Federal Election Observers (fortune.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune:
Federal election observers can only be sent to five states in this year's U.S. presidential election, among the smallest deployments since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 to end racial discrimination at the ballot box. The plan, confirmed in a U.S. Department of Justice fact sheet seen by Reuters, reflects changes brought about by the Supreme Court's 2013 decision to strike down parts of the Act...
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Friday the Justice Department's ability to deploy election observers had been "severely curtailed" by the Supreme Court's decision... Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Voting Rights Project, said federal observers are especially needed this year because 17 states have tightened restrictions on voting since the last presidential election.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Friday the Justice Department's ability to deploy election observers had been "severely curtailed" by the Supreme Court's decision... Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Voting Rights Project, said federal observers are especially needed this year because 17 states have tightened restrictions on voting since the last presidential election.
And don't forget your nightsticks — can't have the crackas voting the wrong way, can you?
Funny, how Obama's Justice Department dropped the only voter-intimidation/suppression case documented in recent history — as if that was curtailed by something too...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Funny, how Obama's Justice Department dropped the only voter-intimidation/suppression case documented in recent history — as if that was curtailed by something too...
Yeah, go figure, nobody came forward to complain that they were intimidated, making the case difficult to impossible. And in fact, throughout the history of the act, prosecutions have been rare to non-existent.
Meanwhile, others examples of actual voter suppression do exist, as well as death threats about a Mosque being used as a polling station in Florida.
But heck, even if we pretend all of that isn't a problem, the fact that voter turnout in 2014 was outright abysmal should make everybody take notice.
Maybe your post got modded down because you didn't provide any proof of what you said is true or not.
Was it a rant or was it the truth?
Back it up with something.
I invite you to imagine, David Duke and friends standing in front of a polling place somewhere, pointing a weapon at non-White would-be voters and telling them: "You are about to be ruled by a White man." This is precisely, what happened in Philadelphia.
False. Says Wikipedia:
The Justice Department has won their case already — and then asked the court to dismiss the default judgment in their favor. Whatever the problem was, it was not the difficulty of actual prosecution.
Ah, and here we go redefining terms — as if asking for a proof of eligibility is "suppressive". Nice try, but fail...
Completely off-topic.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
I have to wonder what language these Americans were speaking while living inside America for so long?
Keres and Navajo, according to this.
I call bullshit on this.
That's nice, but they went to court, and provided evidence.
Voter restrictions of various stripe tend to affect poor and minorities more than other groups.
What restrictions would those be? I'm not American, but from a quick google, it seems that all you need are:
1. Citizen of at least 18 years old
2. Driver's license # or last 4 digits of SSN
Why would this be troublesome for any particular group of people?
Getting an ID costs money in the US, so requiring an ID puts more strain on the poor than the working class.
The annual fee for a drivers license is around $35, a state-issued ID is around $30, and a passport costs $100.
When you're poor, that $35 could pay for 7 meals frugally made.
Social security cards are given out and replaced at no charge, but aren't generally accepted as an ID because they lack pictures.
Using your example of NH an ID card is $10 and lasts for 5 years. That's $2 per year for voting. That's really cheap. And to go further, how does one live in a modern society WITHOUT a Government issued ID? I guess you never travel on an airplane. You do not set up utiltities. You never rent a car or tool. You don't have a bank account. You have no cell phone nor mailbox. Basically - you live in the woods as a hermit - probably not too interested in politics to start with.
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