Download "The New Face of Jim Crow: Voter Suppression in America" Report

[kerry-is-my-prez]

Good Report that tells about a lot of the crap that the right is pulling. It talks a lot about the new expensive "REAL ID" cards that would constitute a modern-day poll tax. And surprise-surprise the proposal to require these cards come from The Carter-BAKER Commission - as in JIM BAKER & Jimmy Carter (Jimmy - you'd better start paying attention to this, I have the feeling he is NOT aware of this).
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22221

While you're there- donate to PFAW they're trying to register thousands of new voters for the election. They also participate in lawsuits against voter suppression, etc.

https://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=16852

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Proponents of new voter identification requirements cite the supposed problem of voter fraud as the impetus for their action, but there’s no evidence that voter fraud exists in this country in any significant way, or that identification requirements would fix the problem if it were to exist. Indeed, the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform acknowledged that “there is no evidence of extensive fraud in U.S. elections or of multiple voting,”2 And, according to a 2005 study by the Ohio League of Women Voters, out of more than nine million ballots cast in Ohio in 2002 and 2004, just four were found to be fraudulent.

A particularly troubling proposal came from the Carter-Baker Commission. The commission proposed requiring the use of a new national photo identification card, known as a “REAL ID” card, for all voting. REAL ID cards, which are slated to come into use in May of 2008, would be highly expensive and, if they are required for voting, would constitute a modern-day poll tax. National REAL ID cards are not yet in place, but many identification requirement proposals already have been adopted at the state level. Such proposals, usually backed strongly by Radical Right special interest groups, serve to suppress votes and intimidate voters—regardless of their supporters’ intent. In 2001, 11 states required voter IDs. But thanks in part to encouragement from Radical
Right activists since the passage of the federal Help America Vote Act in 2002, 24 states now require voter identification.4 A few examples follow.

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[texpatriot2004]

1. Thanks for this post nm

[DianaForRussFeingold]

2. Thank You, K&R

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