Long Lines at Polls
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I shit you not, I was thinking the exact same thing. The Supreme Court ruled years ago it was illegal to require a fee, a Poll Tax, at the polls. It unreasonably disenfranchised poor people from their constitutional right to vote.
Similarly, if folks can't afford to wait in line (due to health, or age, or financial obligation) they are being similarly disenfranchised from their fundamental right to vote. States that fail to provide reasonable access to ballots are violating the damn Constitution.
There is no excuse! this is 2008. ummm just call the guys from American Idol.
Now, the Supreme Court decision was in response to the use of a pole tax to deliberately stop poor people and blacks from voting... I'm not saying Republicans intend to stop more diverse Democrats from the ballot in order not to get their asses kicked.
I'm not sayin that. (But I did just read a story that the NAACP is suing Virginia because in black areas polling places have 20% fewer voting machines)
Your darling Scrub is not sayin that.
I shit you not, I was thinking the exact same thing. The Supreme Court ruled years ago it was illegal to require a fee, a Poll Tax, at the polls. It unreasonably disenfranchised poor people from their constitutional right to vote.
Similarly, if folks can't afford to wait in line (due to health, or age, or financial obligation) they are being similarly disenfranchised from their fundamental right to vote. States that fail to provide reasonable access to ballots are violating the damn Constitution.
There is no excuse! this is 2008. ummm just call the guys from American Idol.
Now, the Supreme Court decision was in response to the use of a pole tax to deliberately stop poor people and blacks from voting... I'm not saying Republicans intend to stop more diverse Democrats from the ballot in order not to get their asses kicked.
I'm not sayin that. (But I did just read a story that the NAACP is suing Virginia because in black areas polling places have 20% fewer voting machines)
Your darling Scrub is not sayin that.
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