Robert Reich: The poor are being barred from voting. And that's unconstitutional.
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans are being denied the right to vote because they are poor.
In nine states, Republican legislators have enacted laws that disenfranchise anyone with outstanding legal fees or court fines.
For example, in Alabama more than 100,000 people who owe money roughly 3 percent of the states voting-age population have been struck from voting rolls.
This is unconstitutional. In 1964, the 24th amendment abolished the poll tax, a Jim Crow tactic used to bar poor blacks from voting.
Read More: http://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-poor-are-being-barred-voting-and-thats-unconstitutional-718117
dalton99a
(81,707 posts)hedda_foil
(16,379 posts)Last edited Mon Nov 27, 2017, 02:39 AM - Edit history (1)
Let's see if it happens.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)hedda_foil
(16,379 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)elleng
(131,391 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)All these comments for months about, "I never thought he would stoop so low." "I can't believe they are doing this." Etc etc.
Get over it. Its real foljs.
But, this one did kinda surprise me..maybe surprise is the wrong word.
I'm going back to FIDELIO.
elleng
(131,391 posts)NOTHING surprises me.
Back to The West Wing.
Solly Mack
(90,801 posts)POS
Gothmog
(145,894 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)...since it's the right doing it, the left is shrugging and saying "oh well".
NotASurfer
(2,157 posts)14th Amendment, note that subsequent amendments extended voting to women and lowered voting age:
when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.
Think disenfranchisement is widespread enough to dock these states a couple of Representatives (and thus Electors)?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Likewise for Jim Crow felony disenfranchisement.
pecosbob
(7,549 posts)brought to you by Carl's Jr.
C Moon
(12,226 posts)The GOP (who would not back a Trump candidate), now will do ANYTHING to stop him from being impeached.
We ALL KNOW TRUMP WAS AIDED BY RUSSIA. But the GOP doesn't care.
I hope we can get rid of that party.
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)Keeping people from voting is as American as apple pie.