Vying with North Carolina for “First in Spite”
None of this would be happening if Alexander Haig was in charge.
Ah yes, there it is…NH yet again proving to be the SC of the north…
The dogged persistance of the Goopers to deprive their fellow citizens of voting rights, financial and health stability, and dignity is just astounding.
Think what could come out of that if they turned their evil powers to good. What a world that might be!!
No more astounding than finding mustard in the condiment aisle.
After Reagan was shot Haig thought he was the top-dog in the country!
Gotta love these sanctimonious fks that ‘think’ their vote is so much more important than anyone else’s…no. No I don’t. I’m done with that.
Trying to keep people from voting should be a death sentence.
Ah, shit. I’m going to have to buy a new 128G flash drive if I want to continue cataloging all the winning.
We’ve already brought back poll taxes, let’s bring back “literacy tests” while we’re at it. Or go back to early Reconstruction when organized gangs of former slaveholders attacked black people trying to vote with clubs and knives.
Bill’s way ahead of ya.
William M. Gardner, the chairman of President Donald Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, suggested in an interview this week that voter turnout would be higher if the country returned to Jim Crow-era poll taxes and literacy tests.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/trump-election-commissioner-believes-voter-turnout-is-far-higher-with-poll-taxes-and-literacy-tests-nyt/
Anything to increase voter turnout, ya know?
Sorry, no matter how cynical I get, I just can’t keep up. Good thing I don’t work for the onion.
THe RighT people, libTard
We all know that the founding fathers thought only white, male land owners should be allowed to vote. That is why they put it in the constitution. /s/
What is it with Republicans and their intense hatred of democracy. Are they afraid they can’t adjust to changing demographics or maybe they don’t want to work that hard.
Periodic reminder that several counties in New Hampshire were under Voting Rights Act preclearance due to a pattern of voter suppression.
Like Pennsylvania, where most of the population lives is less subject to the crazy. So you have southeastern PA near Philly and Pittsburgh area, and the rest is “Pennsyl-tucky”
In NH the southern part is where most folks live, many work in Massachusetts (like myself), or are from Massachusetts and moved there for the lower cost of living. So it is more fair to call this part North Massachusetts.
Also NH has a crazy amount of state reps (over 400) so tbere is a lot of silly things proposed which will never be law. (They do generate some entertaining headlines sometimes)
In this case, this law made it through because like the US in general, rural areas are over represented.
In summation us “Masshole” transplants are changing NH more blue, but we certainly do have our own “NewHamphire-tucky” areas that still are overrepresented enough to be problematic.
If by “astounding” you mean “expected”…
Apparently “live free or die” has morphed into “vote republican or die.”
Gardner was could not have sounded stupider claiming that poll taxes and literary tests resulted in the historic higher poll participation than current days. To be fair, I doubt he is going to propose these now, because, you know, the Supreme Court. I have faith that he will find another way to reduce illegal voting, by I way means voting by minorities, people on welfare, and naturalized citizens, you know, people who don’t vote the right way…