Right Wing Rolls Out a Dubious, Nationwide Attack on Americans = Voting Rights

[L. Coyote]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/12/983237/-With-Voter-Suppression,-the-Right-Wing-Rolls-Out-a-Dubious,-Nationwide-Attack-on-Americans

Sun Jun 12, 2011 at 09:02 AM PDT
With Voter Suppression, the Right Wing Rolls Out a Dubious, Nationwide Attack on Americans
by WePartyPatriots


If you tune in to politics, you likely felt the Internet reverberations of Wisconsin's Voter ID Bill, commonly referred to as Voter Suppression, passing through the Wisconsin Legislature late last month. After being delayed thanks to Senate Democrats debating the bill and offering what would become ungranted amendments, the bill passed along party lines. The League of Women voters denounced the GOP's "fear-based approach instead of a fact-based solution" saying in a statement that "In its rush to pass legislation to restrict voting before the recall elections, the majority party in the state Senate has shown an utter disregard for common respect and fair process." Videos of two Wisconsin Democratic Senators deriding the measure appear at the bottom of this post.

Perhaps most suspiciously, the Main Street blog notes, Wisconsin's Voter Suppression bill goes in to effect in advance of the recall elections of six GOP state senators this summer.

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[Scuba]

1. The voter suppression bill here in Wisconsin has been described...

...as the most restrictive in the nation, although earlier this evening it was reported that Missouri is going to require a one year wait after registration before voting is permitted (can that stand Constitional challenges?).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1285338


Become a voter registration officer. Contact your municipal clerk. Fight back!!!

[femrap]

3. So how does a person in WI go about

getting a Photo ID? Does the DMV offer a 'State ID?' Just f*cking unbelievable. OH has to show just current address....like a utility bill. But now a photo. The state has to offer a free one, right???

If people don't see FASCISM, then they're just plain blind!

[supernova]

4. And there are DUers

defending this crap.

[femrap]

5. They need to be BANNED.

What is it with this place lately????? And people who have been on this site forever and who are smart are banned....I just don't get it.

[Enthusiast]

9. I agree.

Real Democrats just don't believe in this bullshit.

[kath]

6. Lots of them. Disgusting and STOOPID.

[Scuba]

8. Yes, the DMV will be offering the ID's. There's likely the be ....

... a fee that they MUST waive upon request.

[msongs]

2. meanwhile the FEDS sit on their cans and do nothing that I've heard of..... nt

[L. Coyote]

11. Indeed. Where are the Justice Department and Civil Right protections?

These are laws aimed at specific minorities and intended to be discriminatory.

[Monk06]

7. You should try the Canadian system for voter registration.

You go online to Elections Canada and register your vote
giving your SIN number, current address and that's it.

You will then be registered to vote Federally.

When an election is called you be notified by EC of
the times you can vote and the location where you
vote in your riding. That notification is an official
record that you are properly registered and your address
is current

On voting day you produce your picture id with your current
address and the EC form that says you are properly registered
at the voting center listed on your EC registration verification
form. If the address on your picture id does not match your EC
registration form then you can vote on site by producing a government
or other official bill listing your current address.

Then you vote with a PAPER BALLOT that is recorded in duplicate by
two employees of EC. One copy goes into the ballot box and the other
to the EC auditors. The ballots and audited copies must match or the
election results cannot be certified.

[Enthusiast]

10. Canada is actually interested in preserving

Democracy. The U.S. Republican Party? Not so much.

[MikeMc]

12. American Legislative Exchange Council, maybe.