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Related: About this forumVoter Suppression Efforts Quietly Advance in Nevada
Voter Suppression Efforts Quietly Advance in Nevada
Nevada Republicans, having won control of the state legislature in 2014, are moving to increase barriers to voting. A series of proposed laws in the state attack voting rights by mandating photographic voter identification cards and proof of citizenship to verify voting eligibility and narrowing early voting windows. These measures would disproportionately impact people of color, women, young people, and the elderly, and could hurt their chances of voting in the 2016 elections.
What were talking about here is putting a major obstacle in front of a fundamental right, Assemblyman Elliot Anderson (D) told the Associated Press.
The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 accelerated the voter registration progress by integrating voter registration forms into drivers license applications and state identification forms through the DMV. These Nevada bills directly undermine this federal statue by requiring verification of citizenship by a local county clerks office. Clerks offices may request supporting documents that indicate citizenship like birth certificates for individuals that register through the DMV. If these documents are not presented to their office within 15 days an individual will be removed from the state voter registry.
A similar law in Arizona was struck down by the US Supreme Court, with conservative Justice Antonin Scalia writing the Court opinion that declared the law conflicted with federal laws regulating elections.
Changes of this ilk to voting laws directly impact the poor and elderly, for whom locating documents and traveling to submit them is made more difficult due to time restrictions and cost. These policies could also disproportionately impact women, who may not have birth certificates that match their married names. If those women are unable to locate and present both their wedding certificate and birth certificate, they could be denied voting eligibility.
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http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/04/10/voter-suppression-efforts-quietly-advance-in-nevada/
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Voter Suppression Efforts Quietly Advance in Nevada (Original Post)
niyad
Apr 2015
OP
14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism (http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm):
blkmusclmachine
Apr 2015
#3
Novara
(5,860 posts)1. If you can't win on your platform....
....then rig the game.
niyad
(113,662 posts)2. so much simpler that way.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)3. 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism (http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm):
14. Fraudulent Elections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm
niyad
(113,662 posts)4. and we still have people refusing to see what is happening.
I saw "Selma" last night, and it was like watching the last few years--ferguson, etc. one would think that, in 50 years, we might have learned something.