Before I go on vacation, I thought I'd throw this bombshell out for you guys to argue over while I am enjoying canoeing from lake to lake. Please don’t disappoint! If you Google “disenfranchise” “voters” “Republican Governors” or some combination of those and other related words, you are absolutely inundated with stories of newly elected Republican Governors proposing and passing voter eligibility restrictions under the guise of addressing voter fraud at the polls. While these restrictions have been challenged in court, many of the legal challenges will not be resolved before the 2012 election cycle. In reality, the actual number of people technically guilty of voter fraud is like 6 people out of several million and some of those 6 simply voted thinking they were genuinely supposed to vote when in fact they were ineligible for one reason or another. Point being that this is yet another manufactured issue and the number of people that will in all likelihood be disenfranchised by the restrictive voting requirements is hundreds of thousands of mostly poor and elderly voters. Instead of making it easier for people to vote and participate in the democratic process some would rather see to it that only those that believe in one ideology be allowed to vote. Can people like this really believe in democracy? What kind of America doesn’t believe in one man, one vote? This is not just an attack on the most vulnerable citizens of this country but an attack on your democratic system of government. Why isn’t there more outrage over this fundamental right being assaulted? Walleyes, here I come.
It's not like this hasn't been tried before... The most direct attack on the problem of African American disfranchisement came in 1965. Prompted by reports of continuing discriminatory voting practices in many Southern states, President Lyndon B. Johnson, himself a southerner, urged Congress on March 15, 1965, to pass legislation “which will make it impossible to thwart the 15th amendment.” He reminded Congress that “we cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.” The Voting Rights Act of 1965, extended in 1970, 1975, and 1982, abolished all remaining deterrents to exercising the franchise and authorized Federal supervision of voter registration where necessary. Good point Lyndon!
IMO, voter fraud is nothing compared to what our representatives do to eff with the system and get their party reelected. On my part, it's not so much apathy and more a distancing from the bs. I don't feel like I'm that much a part of the process, that my vote counts for much. I live more on the fringe of society though, and look at the process from time to time and just shake my head at the insanity of it all. Now, if you all want to make me president or something... I'll do what I can LOL
Doesn't really matter what regular people want anyway. Dollars equal the correct number of votes. You don't have them, you lose. Crapitalsim 101.
