In honor of Martin Luther King Day: two kinds of voter fraud

[misssylviadrake]

"I consider it completely unimportant who in the Party will vote, or how. But what is extraordinarily important is this-who will count the votes, and how.” Joseph Stalin, 1923 (as quoted in “Oxford Essential Quotations, 2017)

Voter fraud is about an individual breaking the law and is almost always caught. It is not a threat to democracy.  Election

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Rev William Barber

[misssylviadrake]

He offers another angle on this, which is that it is misleading to associate voting rights simply with Black people and as a Black issue. The restriction to the right to vote will affect all vulnerable (people who work long hours and have no time off), poor (people unemployed and without a picture ID) and unconnected people (say they have not had a residence in a state for not enough time). It is aimed at all working and lower middle class people. Martin Luther King saw voting rights as about and concerning everyone. He said we must see this issue in the larger context of social irresponsibility. He asked why nothing seriously was done until now and why these bills are themselves weak as was the 1965 bill (why it was not hard to gut it).

Read the transcript as well as watch the video interview:

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/1/18/william_barber_voting_rights_legislation