Discussion for article #237108
I never saw anything like that in the Bible so Jeebus wouldnāt be for that and it is un-American to let āthoseā people vote when it is easy for them
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Good start ā¦ add to it āno causeā absentee ballots for all!
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It is an important position and I hope she keeps hammering away at it. Preventing people from voting makes it closer to impossible to implement any policy changes not desired by those trying to interfere with voting.
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Mr. Marshall just declared her candidacy in trouble. Looks like Hillary must have a bit more confidence in herself! Iām happy to see her take the positions she has. Sheās on the side of the majority of Americans on a lot of issues (campaign finance reform, gay rights, voting rights to name a few). Plus this gives her to opportunity to troll the Rās a bit.
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Instead of all these bandaids, why not just call for a 3-day national voting period? Pick any 3 day period, and mandate that voting stations must remain open the entire 72-hours, no exceptions. This one fix alone would curtail roughly 90% of all the shenanigans we commonly see around voting time. Enough of a fix, in fact, that I surmise many of the remaining shenanigans would fade away as ineffective on their own, without the 1 rushed day of voting to shade them.
The other real problem no one is talking about, is rigged voting machines. They need a paper trail and public software, like yesterday!
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I am really liking what I am seeing. No mambsy pambsy language from Podesta - he calls it what it is, intentional voter suppression.
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Now we;re talking. Not that it will get anywhere in the current political climate. But it is discussion that needs to be had.
Just perhaps, we can move the goalposts enough to give Madame President the majorities she needs to govern effectively.
We donāt need to retake the House in this election, just enough to scare the living BeJesus out of the knuckle draggers.
Of course if this IS a movement election, I will be happy to take it.
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Hope she can pull it off.
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Smart move. Nicely energizes the base well at the same time putting the Republicans in the position of having to argue against it.
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Brava!
Iād like to see more Democrats work to make it easier for non-Republicans to vote.
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Iāll go along with four days of early voting. But as iāve been doing since 1968, Iāll cast my vote in person on election day.
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Constitutional issues. This may or may not be a good idea, but it wonāt fix anything in 2016.
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Itās what conservatives do.
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This is actually clever. It pits an ACTUAL problem (voting restrictions) against an imaginary one (voter fraud).thus making the GOPl look like frightened little old ladies.
Whatās really funny is that I was born in the only state in the union that does not have voter REGISTRATION, or at least it didnāt until the last couple of years.
Iām from North Dakota, which WAS the first state to have the kind of voting restrictions that the GOP is all hopped up over back in the 20s. Then in the 50s the legislature collectively said, āWhat do we have all this nonsense for?ā and got rid of it. How on earth did they make it work? They had all these itty-bitty precincts where everybody knew everybody else. It worked just fine.
It may have changed in the last couple of years cause the GOP had a shitfit but I simply donāt know. My doubt is that everything worked just fine without it and if you believe THESE clowns, we should have been SWIMMING in voter fraud.
But we werenāt.
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As goes the oriental proverb, āBe careful what you wish for, you might get it,ā be careful. The Christian Right is the most organized voting block, and I am leery of a strategy that gives then the ability to bring in waves of people. Dems are motivated in presidential years, so I would go slow. Not like anything like this is going to happen anyway.
There are no rigged voting machines. Each side always claim voting irregularities when their side loses.
Elections are run by states, we donāt live in a unitarian system government but a Federal system of government.
Tear Texas a new one, Hill, itāll help drain flood waters.
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Yes, but the Republicans are already near peak voter turnout levels. I see very little in the way of untapped Republican votes.
The Democrats, on the other hand, have this little problem with voter enthusiasm ā¦
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Good position: the party of voters vs. the party of hindering or preventing your non-white vote.
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