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Hillary Clinton declares war on Voter IDBy Janell Ross, the Fix at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/06/04/in-houston-an-adamant-hillary-clinton-declares-war-on-voter-id/
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No one was expecting fire. But Clintons speech focusing on some of what Clinton presented as the ugliest truths about voting in the United States was no boilerplate stump speech. Clinton went big. She called for universal and automatic voter registration and a 20-day (or more) period of early voting in every state, before every election. Clinton's speech identified the work of protecting and expanding voting rights as a critical part of her campaign.
Clinton talked about the fact that African Americans consistently rank among the most deeply affected by the contours of Voter ID laws, must wait in the longest lines on Election Day and cast ballots at polling sites that very often house fewer machines and poll workers than other sites. That, Clinton told the crowd, is no accident.
Then, her campaign sent out a tweet that drove the point home.
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Voting every time, it is time to stick all of the voter suppression on the GOP's back who have bragged about all of the vote suppression laws they have passed in order of electing Democrats.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Has she been asleep since 2000? Or is she just trying to embrace an issue that all Democrats will support, in the hope that her Wall St embrace is overlooked?
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)SunSeeker
(51,824 posts)She's smart enough to have researched that 77% of Americans support what they understand as "voter ID" namely having to show official photo ID to vote. Of course, most Americans don't understand how craven Republicans have been about what types of official ID they will accept, i.e., they'll accept concealed carry permits, but not student ID's. Nonetheless, the majority of Americans favor early voting and automatic registration. And there is no "voter fraud prevention" argument that can be used against early voting and automatic registration. That is why the Republicans keep mis-characterizing her position as being against voter ID. And of course, the Washington Post obliges them.
Cha
(298,139 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)He'd like to bury his chichanery under slick words. This should be told far and wide.
Every single day. The GOP can only win by cheating, they are stealing the nation for the Koch brothers.
Between Bernie and Hillary, I want to see the GOP put out of business.