Do you support the boycott of corporations that fund voter suppression efforts?
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April 5th, 2012
In the last year, the GOP has been rushing to enact laws making it more difficult to vote. In 31 states controlled by Republicans since the sweep of 2010, some form of voter suppression laws have been put on the books. There is no evidence of large-scale voting fraud, so these laws are not designed to solve some looming problem. As it stands, these laws will impact as many as 20 million Americans who are largely registered Democrats, and will target college students and young people being able to easily register. Again, this is a demographic that largely votes Democratic. These voter suppression moves include changes in voter ID laws, elimination or reduction of early voting, making it easier to throw out votes with polling place challenges, and restrictions that make voter registration drives impossible. This legislation has been pushed by a right-wing advocacy group called ALEC that falsely hides behind a claim of nonpartisanship. ALEC is heavily funded by corporations and billionaires who will profit from the agenda to increase economic disparity that they advocate for. And of course, if ALEC can limit democracy and thus gain more control, then they can better enact legislation favoring the privileged few.
Do you support the petition drive to ask Walmart and other corporate donors to drop their funding of ALEC? Coca Cola has already pulled their funding. Can it work?
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“There is no evidence of large-scale voting fraud” Oh, well as long as its not large scale….~
Seriously dude, what’s with the republican hate campaign you seem to be having? So far you have provided jack fucking shit for evidence behind your statements.
The only people who could possibly be “disenfranchised” would be illegal immigrants. Is that who you are so worried about?
@cheebdragon That’s actually not so. Many older citizens don’t have the documents they need, and students in college are affected by these laws, too.
@cheebdragon If that were true, I would not be concerned at all. It is not true, though.
So it’s the non smoking, anti alcohol drinking, elderly living off cash because they don’t have a bank account or the ability to cash a check. They never get sick so they dont need to buy cold medicine, see a doctor or pick up any prescriptions…...Is that who we are disenfranchising?
There is no reason at all for ANY college student to not have an ID.
So you only want folks who drink and smoke to vote? Many elderly people don’t collect checks. They have their social security direct deposited to their bank. And students have student ID, but not necessarily a state ID where they study. Time to go get one is their porblem. It’s 20 million people that will likely be disenfranchised. Happy now.
Or do you yearn for the anti democracy, fascist moves the GOP has made in Michigan under Gov. Rick Snyder and the new GOP legislature have done? Maybe we should just go that way nationwide. A pox on democracy, anyway. Right?
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