If you or someone you know needs ID for their vote in Pennsylvania, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE (687-8683)
This number can also get PA residents a ride to the polls as needed.
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Occupy Pragmatism
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Spot on!
Thinking about not voting this year? It’s the Supreme Court, stupid.
Truth: just how hard is it to get an ID?
if they don’t want you to have one, i’ll tell you:
My Nana is a year younger than Ms. Cooper, and is very close to going through the same shit. She doesn’t have a birth certificate, because in her area, when…
I COULD NOT REGISTER TO VOTE! – The Voter Identification MANDATE
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
WP contributor Fay Paxton recounts the challenges she has had in getting the photo ID that Republicans in her state have mandated she needs to be able to vote.
Don’t put off getting registered. The Republicans are making this as hard as they can to discourage people from voting. They can’t win on ideas, because they have none. They can only win by cheating.
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President Johnson’s News Conference, February 4, 1965. (via lbjlibrary)On another matter, I should like to say that all Americans should be indignant when one American is denied the right to vote. The loss of that right to a single citizen undermines the freedom of every citizen. This is why all of us should be concerned with the efforts of our fellow Americans to register to vote in Alabama.
“The basic problem in Selma is the slow pace of voting registration for Negroes who are qualified to vote. We are using the tools of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in an effort to secure their right to vote. One of those tools of course is legal action to guarantee a citizen his right.
“One case of voting discrimination has already led to a trial which has just been concluded. We are now awaiting a decision in this case. In the meantime I hope that all Americans will join with me in expressing their concern over the loss of any American’s right to vote. Nothing is more fundamental to American citizenship and to our freedom as a nation and as a people. I intend to see that that right is secured for all of our citizens.
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Akin Suggests The Voting Rights Act Of 1965 Should Be Overturned (Yes, He's a Republican.)
Rep. Todd Akin, the GOP’s candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, suggested in an interview that it was time to “look at or overturn” the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Asked directly if seminal federal civil rights legislation that prohibits discriminatory voting proceedures needed to be modified or scrapped, Akin said that states — not the federal government — should set voting rules. According to Akin, elections “have historically always been a state thing” and that’s a “good principle.”
Akin has a reputation for extreme views on a variety of topics.
Fox 2 is scheduled to release more of their interview with Akin on Sunday.
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A round-up of voter suppression stories from the Daily Kos. Voter suppression is one of the most evil schemes the 1 percent, ruling elites in this country have conjured up to maintain power. Click on picture of people who put their lives at risk 40 years ago to win the right to vote — only to face disenfranchisement again.
This week in the (Republican) War on Voting
Round up of issues and stories surrounding voting suppression around the country.
ProPublica: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Voter ID Laws
A must-read for conservatives who absurdly claim our country suffers from widespread voter fraud, and the consequences of voter ID laws for the poor and elderly.
Our vote is our only real voice. Suppression efforts under the cloak of disabusing fraud are total bullshit.
Wisconsin official tells DMV employees to 'refrain from offering' information on free voter IDs
And a DMV employee was fired for sending out an e-mail encouraging other employees to tell everyone about the free ID program. The Republicans are trying fucking hard to disenfranchise anyone who would vote against them, and that’s fucking terrifying.
(via end-the-republican-mafia)
Women will decide this election—but only if we get involved and help bring our friends and family on board. Women for Obama is a place to contribute ideas, check out the ways President Obama is fighting for women, and tell the story of how women are shaping this campaign.
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Akin Suggests The Voting Rights Act Of 1965 Should Be Overturned (Yes, He's a Republican.)
Rep. Todd Akin, the GOP’s candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, suggested in an interview that it was time to “look at or overturn” the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Asked directly if seminal federal civil rights legislation that prohibits discriminatory voting proceedures needed to be modified or scrapped, Akin said that states — not the federal government — should set voting rules. According to Akin, elections “have historically always been a state thing” and that’s a “good principle.”
Akin has a reputation for extreme views on a variety of topics.
Fox 2 is scheduled to release more of their interview with Akin on Sunday.
(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)
Dorothy Cooper, age 96 and a retired domestic worker living in Chattanooga, never had any trouble voting even in the Jim Crow era and missed only one election in her entire adult life. But when she went for one of the state’s new free photo IDs last month so she could keep voting, they turned her away. Why? Her maiden name, Dorothy Alexander, is on her birth certificate, and she didn’t have her marriage license.
Due to Tennessee’s new voting law, she has to have a state photo ID to vote and now, even with her current voter registration card, she can’t get one.
Links to the Times Free Press and Nashville Scene articles.
She is older than Voting Rights Act.
Like let’s get this really real yall
Mama has voted without bureaucratic bullshit in JIM DAMN CROW
but the new millenium is trying to keep her out cause her birth certificate ( which is older than the current incarnations of both parties) has her maiden name
from back when the probably write that shit in fountain pen…
I quit all of you
EVERY SINGLE ONE
doing math : She has been eligible to vote since 1937
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SHE HAD LESS TROUBLE VOTING AROUND FDR vs. LANDON than OBAMA vs.ROMNEY
God damn it.
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#INFP - so true. Who knew? #NoH8 #ProChoice #fem2 #ChildAbuse #AnimalAbuse
Contrarian by nature; Democrat by choice. #p2 #p21 #CTL #Obama2012
Together we MUST take back the power wrongfully seized by banks, corporations, and the corrupt politicians they fund. #OWS #99
#Justice4Trayvon is the other tumblr I branched from this one so I could track the developments in the #Trayvon Martin case.
