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PostPosted: 12/28/11 4:33 am • # 1 
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For me, the last sentence here [emphasis/bolding is mine] nicely explains the entire current GOP/TP 2012 "campaign" ~ Sooz

December 27, 2011 9:20 AM
Disenfranchising young voters
By Steve Benen

Ruy Teixeira makes a strong case today that the youth vote will be critical to President Obama's re-election chances, and if young adults don't show up, Republican odds improve significantly.

This point is not lost on GOP officials. Indeed, as a New York Times editorial makes clear today, the importance of the youth vote has led Republicans to consider this as part of their war on voting.

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Next fall, thousands of students on college campuses will attempt to register to vote and be turned away. Sorry, they will hear, you have an out-of-state driver's license. Sorry, your college ID is not valid here. Sorry, we found out that you paid out-of-state tuition, so even though you do have a state driver's license, you still can't vote.

Political leaders should be encouraging young adults to participate in civic life, but many Republican state lawmakers are doing everything they can instead to prevent students from voting in the 2012 presidential election. Some have openly acknowledged doing so because students tend to be liberal.

Seven states have already passed strict laws requiring a government-issued ID (like a driver's license or a passport) to vote, which many students don't have, and 27 others are considering such measures. Many of those laws have been interpreted as prohibiting out-of-state driver's licenses from being used for voting.

It's all part of a widespread Republican effort to restrict the voting rights of demographic groups that tend to vote Democratic.

Generally, when GOP officials put new barriers between Americans and their democracy, Republicans at least try to keep up appearances, pointing to imaginary voter fraud as a rationale for the restrictions.

But when it comes to young adults, some GOP policymakers simply drop the pretense — the speaker of the New Hampshire State House recently conceded that students' access to the ballot box should be blocked because young people tend to “vote their feelings,â€



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PostPosted: 12/28/11 4:35 am • # 2 
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nothing new. move along.


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PostPosted: 12/28/11 4:46 am • # 3 
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The "new" for me, mac, is that it is being publicly exposed ~

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PostPosted: 12/28/11 5:10 am • # 4 
sooz08 wrote:
The "new" for me, mac, is that it is being publicly exposed ~

Sooz
But nothing will be done about it. The sleazebags will win their election and later dismiss rioting students as "terrorists" or worse.

Corruption is alive and well.


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PostPosted: 12/28/11 5:14 am • # 5 
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sooz08 wrote:
The "new" for me, mac, is that it is being publicly exposed ~

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so were the caging strategies used in 2000 and 2004.  since they are technically not illegal, they will keep doing them.

what we need is ANOTHER voting rights act, apparently.


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PostPosted: 12/28/11 5:23 am • # 6 
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There are a few similarities between the old Soviet Union and the US.


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PostPosted: 12/28/11 5:42 am • # 7 
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There's no mystery here, and Republicans aren't even being subtle — they're trying to rig an entire election cycle by putting the most severe hurdles between Americans and the voting process since Jim Crow. The GOP fears losing in a fair fight, so the party is trying to rig the game through voter suppression, plain and simple

The Republicans bitch about voter fraud constantly.  They even got Acorn shut down because of the perception of it.  But, if you google search you will find one of the main reasons they are afraid of it is they are so good at it.  Acorn got dinged because it was a single large organization.  Republicans tend to spread their organizing and voter dirty tricks among numerous organizations so that no one organization draws too much fire.  But, taken together, their transgressions are legion and many make anything Acorn was accused of look penny ante.  I'm beginning to think their fears of voter fraud stem from the fact they pursue it so often they are sure the other side does it too.


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PostPosted: 12/28/11 7:45 am • # 8 
It's either that or they see their own cheating as being normal, so whatever the opponents do must be "cheating".


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PostPosted: 12/29/11 4:29 am • # 9 
one of the main reasons they are afraid of it is they are so good at it.

You are so right Jim... you really hit the nail on the head here. Image


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