We need to mandate that former felons can vote in federal elections by changing federal law.
We need to prevent Republicans, in any state, but especially in southern states, from disenfranchising legal voters with their bogus voter roll purges, and with their other efforts that prevent people from voting.
Large voter turnout is bad for Republicans, good for Democrats. So the righties try to make it hard for voters, and they have tried to do so with voter ID - and then shut down locations that provide that ID in Democratic majority areas. They privatize voting, installing faulty voting machines that change votes for Democratic candidates to Republican candidates. They target Democratic voters with DVDs, mass mailings and robo-calls misinforming them about Democratic candidates and the location, date, time and method of voting, which is election tampering. They also have made it a practice to hire people for voter registration and then repeatedly direct them to throw away the voter registrations of Democratic voters.
Enough! We need to end the efforts of the Republicans to steal elections through voter fraud and through election tampering, and through deliberate and calculated incompetence that makes it harder for legal voters to vote.
IF Republicans really cared about fair and honest elections, instead of trying to interfere with honest elections - as they claim - they would call for the resignation of Secretaries of State where people were impeded or prevented from legally voting. They don't because they wanted to make it harder, on the right, for lots of people to vote -- even if that made it difficult for Republicans as well. That would include Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida (for starters). If for no other reasons, these Secretaries of State should resign for pure incompetence. They put the U.S. on a par with corrupt banana republics. They stain the core values of democracy and of the United States, founded on the foundation of one person/ one vote.
from Think Progress:
By Ian Millhiser on Nov 9, 2012 at 2:30 pm
In what was perhaps the most significant exchange, Banfield asked whether Detzner regrets a Florida law rolling back the number of days when voters could cast an early ballot. Detzner was unremorseful:
There is something truly absurd about Detzner’s claim that the fact that people did not decide to give up their most fundamental right somehow reflects their satisfaction with a massive failure of governance. It should go without saying that when someone has to wait six hours to cast a ballot, their government failed them, and no amount of spin can defend a decision not to make more opportunities to vote available. As Florida’s former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist said last Sunday, Gov. Rick Scott’s (R-FL) refusal to extend early voting is “unconscionable” and “the only thing that makes any sense as to why this is happening and being done is voter suppression.”
Crist is almost undoubtedly correct. The Obama campaign made early voting a key prong of their turnout strategy, and many low-income voters who tend to vote Democratic are disenfranchised without early voting because they lack the job flexibility to cast a ballot on election day.
We need to prevent Republicans, in any state, but especially in southern states, from disenfranchising legal voters with their bogus voter roll purges, and with their other efforts that prevent people from voting.
Large voter turnout is bad for Republicans, good for Democrats. So the righties try to make it hard for voters, and they have tried to do so with voter ID - and then shut down locations that provide that ID in Democratic majority areas. They privatize voting, installing faulty voting machines that change votes for Democratic candidates to Republican candidates. They target Democratic voters with DVDs, mass mailings and robo-calls misinforming them about Democratic candidates and the location, date, time and method of voting, which is election tampering. They also have made it a practice to hire people for voter registration and then repeatedly direct them to throw away the voter registrations of Democratic voters.
Enough! We need to end the efforts of the Republicans to steal elections through voter fraud and through election tampering, and through deliberate and calculated incompetence that makes it harder for legal voters to vote.
IF Republicans really cared about fair and honest elections, instead of trying to interfere with honest elections - as they claim - they would call for the resignation of Secretaries of State where people were impeded or prevented from legally voting. They don't because they wanted to make it harder, on the right, for lots of people to vote -- even if that made it difficult for Republicans as well. That would include Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida (for starters). If for no other reasons, these Secretaries of State should resign for pure incompetence. They put the U.S. on a par with corrupt banana republics. They stain the core values of democracy and of the United States, founded on the foundation of one person/ one vote.
from Think Progress:
Florida’s GOP Secretary Of State Has No Regrets, Won’t Say He’s Sorry For Massive Voting Lines
By Ian Millhiser on Nov 9, 2012 at 2:30 pmBANFIELD: Look, you all decided, with a Republican legislature to cut the early voting days from 14 to 8. For whatever reason you did that, do you regret making that choice, so that all of those people who didn’t get to the polls early stuck themselves in line and wound up waiting so long that many people walked away and were disenfranchised?Watch it:
DETZNER: Well, let me point out that, while the days were cut, the number of hours were not. We still maintained 96 hours of voting, and it created greater flexibility for the supervisors. Uh, for the first time ever voters could vote during the day for 12 hours during the day, and I can tell you I heard feedback from voters going into election day that they liked the opportunity to vote either in the morning before work or after work. And frankly, I think the turnout is a good representation of the fact that people liked the voting hours and the flexibility that the supervisors had.
Crist is almost undoubtedly correct. The Obama campaign made early voting a key prong of their turnout strategy, and many low-income voters who tend to vote Democratic are disenfranchised without early voting because they lack the job flexibility to cast a ballot on election day.
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