National Voter Registration Day is Sept 26th. #justsaying (Taken with Instagram)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5149667
Register. Vote. make sure everyone you know does. Help older folks to make sure they are still registered and haven’t been purged. If they win, it’ll be due to voter suppression - do your part!
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.
(via mommapolitico)
Let’s do our part to keep the
racist RepublicansTea PartyAmerican Taliban outraged for another four years.VOTE!
(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)
But it’s silly to argue that Republicans are being racist…
Chuck Todd and Josh Romney are set to discuss getting young people interested in voting. (Taken with Instagram at Improv Comedy Club)
At a comedy club? How fitting.
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…
Don’t know if you’re registered to vote?
Can I Vote is a simple way to check your registration status. It literally takes like 5 seconds and it’s SO IMPORTANT!
This site: http://www.longdistancevoter.org/verify_voter_registration#.UDec_J2PWSo is also useful for finding out where to go to check!
After Ohio’s Secretary of State Jon Husted announced last week that early-voting sites across the state would only be open on weekdays, many felt the restriction would unfairly impact “working people” in general, and minorities in particular.
Doug Priesse, chairman of…
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.
(via recall-all-republicans)
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 recall-all-republicans)
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.
Round up of issues and stories surrounding voting suppression around the country.
#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.
