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This is all very well, but it's fixing the little thing (turnout) without fixing the main thing (voter suppression). If every citizen has the right to vote, then democrats should ensure that, in every state, mechanisms exist to ensure every citizen who wants to vote can vote. And quickly.

Right now, neither side seems interested. So it doesn't matter how many you turn out if the lines are longer than the time their job allows them. It doesn't matter if the repugs have changed their voting location to the other end of the state. If the repugs have challenged their vote for any reason they can think of, including a spelling mistake !!!!

Can people who have their vote removed sue the repugs for infringing their constitutional rights ? Or do rights only work for corporations ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 05:20:19 AM EST
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If every citizen has the right to vote, then democrats should ensure that, in every state, mechanisms exist to ensure every citizen who wants to vote can vote. And quickly.

And quickly would be nice, since it is now approaching the 45th year since the passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964, when rights established by the Constitution, as corrected by rights passed during and immediately following the Civil War, finally became Rights with Tools.

A long treatise could be written on what people could have done in the states if they weren't busy fighting an undeclared war in VietNam in those years, or building the tools of that war or financing that war or paying for that war, or fighting against that war or or or. But instead, for 50 years, the world's most incredible propaganda machine spun the middle class into confused racists and involuntary fascists, while keeping their 'elitist' enemy diverted.

Perhaps after the 2010 election, when the republican/ex-southern democrat alliance is finally broken, and 2012 when the Tehran Peace Accords mark the end of the War in Iraq and 2014 during the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act...perhaps then we can declare the Inquisition dead and your dream reality.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

by siegestate (siegestate or beyondwarispeace.com) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 10:39:43 AM EST
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