Comments | ontd_political: Jim Crow returns: Millions of minority voters threatened by electoral purge

moonshaz in ontd_political

Jim Crow returns: Millions of minority voters threatened by electoral purge

Nov 01, 2014 21:42

Election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, have launched a program that threatens a massive purge of voters from the rolls. Millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters, are at risk. Already, tens of thousands have been removed in at least one battleground state, and the numbers are expected to climb, according to ( Read more... )

you stay classy, voter fraud, virginia, racial profiling, race / racism, !request-a-tag, voting, north carolina, georgia (the state)

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skizzylizard November 2 2014, 14:52:20 UTC

Voter suppression is treason.

I can't with the people in the comments at the source saying "well voter fraud is a problem that needs to be addressed SOMEHOW!" No, no it isn't. It isn't a problem at all.

azetburcaptain November 2 2014, 22:40:23 UTC

Election fraud is the actual problem they're thinking of, but that's done by the Republican Party generally and not by individual voters.

checkerdandy November 2 2014, 15:22:55 UTC

This is so fucking shady. It's so hard getting voters to vote just the once, let alone multiple times.

azetburcaptain November 2 2014, 22:41:19 UTC

Right? I heard there's always huge lines at the polling stations in the USA... so if you voted once wouldn't you have to leave right after? They sort of guide you away where I live (Canada).

astartexx November 2 2014, 15:43:31 UTC

The whole election process seems so fucked up in America from gerrymandering to voter purges to the two party system, that gives you not much of a voice in the end. The way these people don't even hide what they are doing is awful.

spyral_out November 3 2014, 03:02:51 UTC

Our entire election system is a farce. Gerrymandering and the electoral college are an embarrassment to the country.

astartexx November 3 2014, 16:03:01 UTC

I think one cause for a lot of these problems is that America never needed to overhaul their election process and modernize it like European countires did after the war with American guidelines. Especially in Germany. And we were lucky that our three party system with the Libertarian tier party broke down in the '80ies when the Greens established themselves and we got a stronger Left party in the '90ies.

Plus bad supreme court decisions like Citizens United don't help.

cindyanne1 November 2 2014, 17:26:43 UTC

If I'm understanding correctly, then virtually anybody that has moved and been registered in more than one location at once could be "suspect" and have their ability to vote rescinded? Whether they actually voted twice in one year or not? That's ridiculous.

moonshaz November 3 2014, 20:57:16 UTC

It sounds that way to me. And yes, it is ridiculous!

thesilverymoon November 3 2014, 08:27:00 UTC

Fuck every single asshole that supports this voter suppressing bullshit. They are an embarrassment to the country as a whole.
And an especially big FUCK YOU to that fucking racist dirtbag Kris Kobach. I will be so upset if he's not voted out of office tomorrow. Kansas should be ashamed of itself for electing him in the first place.

rhysande November 4 2014, 03:05:17 UTC

According to Daily Kos, Kobach is suspending or rejecting about 20% of the new voter applications in Kansas. The majority of them are independents. That's about 22K people that won't be able to vote tomorrow, excluding those who will be turned away at the polls due to other newly implemented voting restriction, such as voter ID. All this trampling of citizen's rights because a handful of people might have committed voter fraud. The rejection rates used to run around .03%.

Couldn't agree with you more about Kobach. I hope, hope, hope Schodorf takes it.