An attack on the right to vote is underway across the country through laws designed to make it more difficult to cast a ballot. If this were happening in an emerging democracy, we’d condemn it as election-rigging. But it’s happening here, so there’s barely a whimper. Full Story »
Posted by Glenn LaBauve - via Memeorandum, Steve Murray (t)
This opinion piece addresses some of the issues of new voting restrictions and requirements, through the lens of challenging the conservative politicians. The arguments are a little weak, and vague, but the link to the Politico story fills in the blanks.
A stronger argument, in my opinion, would be to address how the new voting laws privilege seniors, and harm young voters. By not allowing student IDs to be considered a valid form of ID, and permitting those over 70 to not provide a second form of ID, polarizes the states where these laws are enacted.
Excellent opinion piece which calls out the right wing for its efforts to pass laws preventing those who will probably vote Democratic from voting at all–in a tactic: “if you ain’t gonna vote Republican, you ain’t votin’.” Considering the right wing’s shameful intolerant, racist behavior the past couple of years, it’s nothing more than damage control. Additionally, writer Dionne rightly blames the conservatively owned media for suppressing the issue.
What I fail to comprehend is how even a minority of Americans can bestow a shred of credibility upon a malfeasant political party which can only succeed by hiding behind subterfuge, falsehoods, distortions, and by resurrecting Jim Crow. Does this mean that old question: “How many angels can stand on the head of a pin?” is back?
Paradoxically, the rank partisanship of these measures is discouraging the media from reporting plainly on what’s going on. Voter suppression so clearly benefits the ... More »
This opinion piece has minimal journalistic merit. The author promotes his personal views by highly selective quoting, and by ignoring the major voting problems of recent years. ACORN, which submitted tens of thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms is not even mentioned!. The Black Panther voter intimidation case in Philadelphia is not even mentioned. Two left-wing sources are cited to claim that fraud is not a problem. Gives insight into the author's ideology, but does not provide a factual analysis.
To links have been added that fisk Mr Dionne. It is strange that Mr Dionne is making his comments at a time when African Americans and Latinos are more prominent in the Republican Party than ever before!
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