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GOP Voter Suppression Plan: Seven Tactics To Block Your Vote in 2012
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| GOP Voter Suppression Plan: Seven Tactics To Block Your Vote in 2012 Quote: By Steven Rosenfeld / Alternet If you live in a state where voting is becoming tougher, plan ahead to register, to get the right ID and to know where you can vote. If you are a member of a racial minority, student or young voter, working poor, elderly or disabled, your ability to vote may be a lot harder in 2012—especially if you live in states that have a history of racial repression during the Civil Rights Movement. Simply put, the Republican Party knows which segments of society helped to elect President Obama and other Democrats in 2008, knows tens of millions of these people did not vote in the 2010 midterms, and has worked very hard to stop these people from voting again next year. Their strategy has been simple: raise the barriers by complicating the rules to register to vote, to get a ballot, to vote early, or speedily. What follows are seven major trends that will affect you if you live in a state with new rules. Republicans know that most people do not pay attention to the fine print of election law. They get excited in the final days before presidential votes. But that may not be good enough in 2012. Whether you are encouraged, discouraged or something in between about the coming presidential season, if you want to vote, look at these trends described below, see if you live in one of these states, and plan ahead: to register, to get the right ID, and to know where you can vote. If you don’t, the Republicans may silence your vote and voice. Tactic One: Toughen Voter ID Requirements Tactic Two: Create Hurdles To Get Required ID Tactic Three: Intimidate Voter Registration Groups Tactic Four: Try To Eliminate Same-Day Registration Tactic Five: Curtail Early Voting Tactic Six: Ban Felons From Voting Tactic Seven: Bleed Election Administration Budgets Last edited by Lakhota; 12-22-2011 at 08:31 PM.  |
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12-22-2011, 08:35 PM
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| Florida, under Gov. Rick Scott, who has been a leader in the voter-suppression effort, reduced early voting from 14 days to eight. In Ohio, it went from 35 days to 16. GOP's voter suppression America isn't going to forget the rotten things Republicans are doing. If their policies were any good, they wouldn't need to do this.
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12-22-2011, 08:42 PM
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12-22-2011, 08:43 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by rdean  Florida, under Gov. Rick Scott, who has been a leader in the voter-suppression effort, reduced early voting from 14 days to eight. In Ohio, it went from 35 days to 16. GOP's voter suppression America isn't going to forget the rotten things Republicans are doing. If their policies were any good, they wouldn't need to do this.
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12-22-2011, 08:45 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by rdean Florida, under Gov. Rick Scott, who has been a leader in the voter-suppression effort, reduced early voting from 14 days to eight. In Ohio, it went from 35 days to 16. GOP's voter suppression America isn't going to forget the rotten things Republicans are doing. If their policies were any good, they wouldn't need to do this. |
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12-22-2011, 08:55 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lakhota Quote: By Steven Rosenfeld / Alternet If you live in a state where voting is becoming tougher, plan ahead to register, to get the right ID and to know where you can vote. If you are a member of a racial minority, student or young voter, working poor, elderly or disabled, your ability to vote may be a lot harder in 2012—especially if you live in states that have a history of racial repression during the Civil Rights Movement. Simply put, the Republican Party knows which segments of society helped to elect President Obama and other Democrats in 2008, knows tens of millions of these people did not vote in the 2010 midterms, and has worked very hard to stop these people from voting again next year. Their strategy has been simple: raise the barriers by complicating the rules to register to vote, to get a ballot, to vote early, or speedily. What follows are seven major trends that will affect you if you live in a state with new rules. Republicans know that most people do not pay attention to the fine print of election law. They get excited in the final days before presidential votes. But that may not be good enough in 2012. Whether you are encouraged, discouraged or something in between about the coming presidential season, if you want to vote, look at these trends described below, see if you live in one of these states, and plan ahead: to register, to get the right ID, and to know where you can vote. If you don’t, the Republicans may silence your vote and voice. Tactic One: Toughen Voter ID Requirements Tactic Two: Create Hurdles To Get Required ID Tactic Three: Intimidate Voter Registration Groups Tactic Four: Try To Eliminate Same-Day Registration Tactic Five: Curtail Early Voting Tactic Six: Ban Felons From Voting Tactic Seven: Bleed Election Administration Budgets What I find most amusing, Lakhota...is that progressives like you like to point to GOP "voter suppression tactics" as the reason the Democrats got their tushies handed to them in 2010. Funny how that didn't seem to work in 2008. Could it be that after two years of "Hopey Changey" the electorate that BOUGHT the whole Obama thing in 2008 wasn't buying it in 2010? |
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12-22-2011, 08:59 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Oldstyle
Quote: Originally Posted by Lakhota Quote: By Steven Rosenfeld / Alternet If you live in a state where voting is becoming tougher, plan ahead to register, to get the right ID and to know where you can vote. If you are a member of a racial minority, student or young voter, working poor, elderly or disabled, your ability to vote may be a lot harder in 2012—especially if you live in states that have a history of racial repression during the Civil Rights Movement. Simply put, the Republican Party knows which segments of society helped to elect President Obama and other Democrats in 2008, knows tens of millions of these people did not vote in the 2010 midterms, and has worked very hard to stop these people from voting again next year. Their strategy has been simple: raise the barriers by complicating the rules to register to vote, to get a ballot, to vote early, or speedily. What follows are seven major trends that will affect you if you live in a state with new rules. Republicans know that most people do not pay attention to the fine print of election law. They get excited in the final days before presidential votes. But that may not be good enough in 2012. Whether you are encouraged, discouraged or something in between about the coming presidential season, if you want to vote, look at these trends described below, see if you live in one of these states, and plan ahead: to register, to get the right ID, and to know where you can vote. If you don’t, the Republicans may silence your vote and voice. Tactic One: Toughen Voter ID Requirements Tactic Two: Create Hurdles To Get Required ID Tactic Three: Intimidate Voter Registration Groups Tactic Four: Try To Eliminate Same-Day Registration Tactic Five: Curtail Early Voting Tactic Six: Ban Felons From Voting Tactic Seven: Bleed Election Administration Budgets What I find most amusing, Lakhota...is that progressives like you like to point to GOP "voter suppression tactics" as the reason the Democrats got their tushies handed to them in 2010. Funny how that didn't seem to work in 2008. Could it be that after two years of "Hopey Changey" the electorate that BOUGHT the whole Obama thing in 2008 wasn't buying it in 2010? |
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12-22-2011, 08:59 PM
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| dead people voting- another pub myth, at least recently....Spending cuts go to enforcement- the Pub way...
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12-22-2011, 09:05 PM
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| I still find it highly amusing that the left thinks that the only people who would be negatively affected by voter ID laws... are the left. I guess they think their own kind are too lazy or stupid to get the proper ID ahead of time, properly register, and actually go to the polling place.
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12-22-2011, 09:05 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lakhota
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lakhota What I find most amusing, Lakhota...is that progressives like you like to point to GOP "voter suppression tactics" as the reason the Democrats got their tushies handed to them in 2010. Funny how that didn't seem to work in 2008. Could it be that after two years of "Hopey Changey" the electorate that BOUGHT the whole Obama thing in 2008 wasn't buying it in 2010? |
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Quote: Originally Posted by Oldstyle
Quote: Originally Posted by Lakhota Quote: By Steven Rosenfeld / Alternet If you live in a state where voting is becoming tougher, plan ahead to register, to get the right ID and to know where you can vote. If you are a member of a racial minority, student or young voter, working poor, elderly or disabled, your ability to vote may be a lot harder in 2012—especially if you live in states that have a history of racial repression during the Civil Rights Movement. Simply put, the Republican Party knows which segments of society helped to elect President Obama and other Democrats in 2008, knows tens of millions of these people did not vote in the 2010 midterms, and has worked very hard to stop these people from voting again next year. Their strategy has been simple: raise the barriers by complicating the rules to register to vote, to get a ballot, to vote early, or speedily. What follows are seven major trends that will affect you if you live in a state with new rules. Republicans know that most people do not pay attention to the fine print of election law. They get excited in the final days before presidential votes. But that may not be good enough in 2012. Whether you are encouraged, discouraged or something in between about the coming presidential season, if you want to vote, look at these trends described below, see if you live in one of these states, and plan ahead: to register, to get the right ID, and to know where you can vote. If you don’t, the Republicans may silence your vote and voice. Tactic One: Toughen Voter ID Requirements Tactic Two: Create Hurdles To Get Required ID Tactic Three: Intimidate Voter Registration Groups Tactic Four: Try To Eliminate Same-Day Registration Tactic Five: Curtail Early Voting Tactic Six: Ban Felons From Voting Tactic Seven: Bleed Election Administration Budgets But the fact is, we live in a country where most people don't really care about politics, and won't go out of their way to get things in order to vote. Also a fact: Lower voter turnout ALWAYS helps Republicans, and higher voter turn out ALWAYS helps Democrats. And it's really as simple as that. Quote: What I find most amusing, Lakhota...is that progressives like you like to point to GOP "voter suppression tactics" as the reason the Democrats got their tushies handed to them in 2010. Funny how that didn't seem to work in 2008. Could it be that after two years of "Hopey Changey" the electorate that BOUGHT the whole Obama thing in 2008 wasn't buying it in 2010?
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12-22-2011, 09:07 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by francoHFW dead people voting- another pub myth, at least recently....Spending cuts go to enforcement- the Pub way...  |
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12-22-2011, 09:07 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by rdean Florida, under Gov. Rick Scott, who has been a leader in the voter-suppression effort, reduced early voting from 14 days to eight. In Ohio, it went from 35 days to 16. GOP's voter suppression America isn't going to forget the rotten things Republicans are doing. If their policies were any good, they wouldn't need to do this. Americans can see thru this BS.
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12-22-2011, 09:08 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Conservative I still find it highly amusing that the left thinks that the only people who would be negatively affected by voter ID laws... are the left. I guess they think their own kind are too lazy or stupid to get the proper ID ahead of time, properly register, and actually go to the polling place. Don't for a second think that the overwhelming support of voter ID laws from the right is coming from anything other than that too, though. They know a lot of legal, likely Dem voters won't have the proper ID.
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12-22-2011, 09:09 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by Conservative I still find it highly amusing that the left thinks that the only people who would be negatively affected by voter ID laws... are the left. I guess they think their own kind are too lazy or stupid to get the proper ID ahead of time, properly register, and actually go to the polling place. Last edited by Oldstyle; 12-22-2011 at 09:11 PM. |
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