GOP’s Voter Suppression is the Civil Rights Issue of this Era

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“STANDING UP to racism and intolerance is a moral imperative, and those who do, like Heather Heyer, the young woman who died as she challenged the thugs in Charlottesville last Saturday, are champions of American principles. In an era when so many bedrock values are under attack, it’s important to think strategically and prioritize the ones worth fighting for.

An exemplar of such strategic thinking, Martin Luther King Jr., fought on multiple fronts but prioritized one in particular: voting rights. Today, as in the 1960s, that same fight makes sense. For in this new civil rights era, voting rights for broad swaths of Americans — minorities, the young and the old — are again imperiled and under attack.
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Yet even if all 1,500 Confederate symbols across the country were removed overnight by some sudden supernatural force, the pernicious crusade to roll back voting rights would continue apace, with voters of color suffering its effects disproportionately. Pushing back hard against those who would purge voter rolls, demand forms of voter ID that many Americans don’t possess, and limit times and venues for voting — this should be a paramount cause for the Trump era.

In statehouse after statehouse where Republicans hold majorities, the playbook is well established, and the tactics are becoming increasingly aggressive.”

Opinion | Voter suppression is the civil rights issue of this era

Voter suppression efforts on the part of Republicans is a clear concession that they can’t win elections with full voter participation.
 
“STANDING UP to racism and intolerance is a moral imperative, and those who do, like Heather Heyer, the young woman who died as she challenged the thugs in Charlottesville last Saturday, are champions of American principles. In an era when so many bedrock values are under attack, it’s important to think strategically and prioritize the ones worth fighting for.

An exemplar of such strategic thinking, Martin Luther King Jr., fought on multiple fronts but prioritized one in particular: voting rights. Today, as in the 1960s, that same fight makes sense. For in this new civil rights era, voting rights for broad swaths of Americans — minorities, the young and the old — are again imperiled and under attack.
[…]
Yet even if all 1,500 Confederate symbols across the country were removed overnight by some sudden supernatural force, the pernicious crusade to roll back voting rights would continue apace, with voters of color suffering its effects disproportionately. Pushing back hard against those who would purge voter rolls, demand forms of voter ID that many Americans don’t possess, and limit times and venues for voting — this should be a paramount cause for the Trump era.

In statehouse after statehouse where Republicans hold majorities, the playbook is well established, and the tactics are becoming increasingly aggressive.”

Opinion | Voter suppression is the civil rights issue of this era

Voter suppression efforts on the part of Republicans is a clear concession that they can’t win elections with full voter participation.
There needs to be strict guidelines in place for voters, such as a legal picture ID proving United States citizenship and residence. You type people want to have illegals voting. That's unAmerican. It's morally wrong. It's disenfranchising to the legal American people.
 
The biggest problem is that local District Courts that maintain voting records are not linked up to the Federal IRS.
Funeral Homes report the deceased to the IRS and it trickles down to financial institutions to freeze accounts.
But God forbid this should be done to enforce voter count validity...the Liberals would be screaming and blocking traffic.
 
"If we let Republicans deprive the non-living of their right to vote, who's next?" -- Dem Rallying Cry
 
“STANDING UP to racism and intolerance is a moral imperative, and those who do, like Heather Heyer, the young woman who died as she challenged the thugs in Charlottesville last Saturday, are champions of American principles. In an era when so many bedrock values are under attack, it’s important to think strategically and prioritize the ones worth fighting for.

An exemplar of such strategic thinking, Martin Luther King Jr., fought on multiple fronts but prioritized one in particular: voting rights. Today, as in the 1960s, that same fight makes sense. For in this new civil rights era, voting rights for broad swaths of Americans — minorities, the young and the old — are again imperiled and under attack.
[…]
Yet even if all 1,500 Confederate symbols across the country were removed overnight by some sudden supernatural force, the pernicious crusade to roll back voting rights would continue apace, with voters of color suffering its effects disproportionately. Pushing back hard against those who would purge voter rolls, demand forms of voter ID that many Americans don’t possess, and limit times and venues for voting — this should be a paramount cause for the Trump era.

In statehouse after statehouse where Republicans hold majorities, the playbook is well established, and the tactics are becoming increasingly aggressive.”

Opinion | Voter suppression is the civil rights issue of this era

Voter suppression efforts on the part of Republicans is a clear concession that they can’t win elections with full voter participation.
/----/ The only reason I won't won't vote Democrat is because they roast live babies and eat them for breakfast. No way I can support that. I'll need reliable proof that it no longer happens if you want my vote in 2018.
 
The biggest problem is that local District Courts that maintain voting records are not linked up to the Federal IRS.
Funeral Homes report the deceased to the IRS and it trickles down to financial institutions to freeze accounts.
But God forbid this should be done to enforce voter count validity...the Liberals would be screaming and blocking traffic.

The biggest problem is the belief that there is a problem with fraud.

Here are nine investigations on voter fraud that found virtually nothing
 
“STANDING UP to racism and intolerance is a moral imperative, and those who do, like Heather Heyer, the young woman who died as she challenged the thugs in Charlottesville last Saturday, are champions of American principles. In an era when so many bedrock values are under attack, it’s important to think strategically and prioritize the ones worth fighting for. An exemplar of such strategic thinking, Martin Luther King Jr., fought on multiple fronts but prioritized one in particular: voting rights.

A). Calling something racist and intolerant does not make it so. You are only trying to create divisive political labels. How can racism dead for 200 years be a moral imperative today? Showing radical intolerance in the face of other's intolerances just makes you as bad as those you oppose! And just WHO is being intolerant about WHAT these days, other than the groups you represent?

B). If a girl acting as a thug going to a rally with the full intention of starting violence against a group she does not agree with is being a "champion of American values," then you lowered yourself and the nation down to the same level as those you say you oppose! All you have done is give the neo-Nazi's free publicity and attention. Had you and others simply ignored them, their cause would continue to weaken and wither. Instead, all you have done is attract more to their numbers and add anger to their side insuring GREATER violence in the future. Next time you will need bigger bats! How many more deaths shall we attribute to you by fully polarizing the issue? Are you proud of assaulting innocent people like the woman knocked down and dragged for merely displaying the flag? Does that make you PROUD? Is this why you cover your faces?

C). Just what "bedrock values" are under attack? Racism? You elected a president not on his qualifications but on his skin color. That was racism. In doing so, he much farther divided our country and inflamed racial attitudes, publicly, daily, rather than healed. What racism are you fighting now? Those of two centuries ago long dead or your own? What about freedom of speech? How are you promoting freedom when everywhere you go you deny it to others under the banners of "tolerance," "justice," and "American principles." How is toppling statues of long dead historical figure the biggest value you find worth fighting for? I can name you a hundred bigger issues! Did you ever stop to think that some of those statues stood as a reminder to us all of where we came from and to give us reminder and reason to be ever-wary we never return to those days, rather than glorifying what they did? If you don't know where you came from, how can you possibly know where you are headed? Or maybe that is what you are fighting against without realizing it, your hatred of your own past, projected onto others.

You can topple all the statues you want, burn all the books you can get your hands on and try to rewrite history, but you cannot CHANGE history. But in the process you will have become the very same people you started out thinking you were opposing! In the end, YOU will have become the Nazi's of today, far worse than the ones who merely go to parks and wave flags and torches and yell empty slogans.

D). You misused the word 'exemplar;' you meant to use the word "example;" don't try to impress us with your pseudo-intellectualism.

E). And finally, if MLK Jr. were alive today, he would be the first to decry your methods; the "voting rights" issue he fought for in his day does not even exist anymore, long dead, no one is stopped from voting now, but oddly enough, any attempts to better the system by insuring checks and balances so that the voter tallies are more ACCURATE and FAIR, you oppose.

You are a sham, an idiot, a paid front man for a backdoor organization of radicals, and we see right through you.
 
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The biggest problem is that local District Courts that maintain voting records are not linked up to the Federal IRS.
Funeral Homes report the deceased to the IRS and it trickles down to financial institutions to freeze accounts.
But God forbid this should be done to enforce voter count validity...the Liberals would be screaming and blocking traffic.

The biggest problem is the belief that there is a problem with fraud.

Here are nine investigations on voter fraud that found virtually nothing
Sorry, Charlie, I know people who work the polls and there is fraud.
 
"Voter suppression", code word for "we cannot allow voter ID laws because we'd lose every election."

Name one individual that hasn't been able to register and vote because of "voter suppression".
 

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