The Supreme Court just cleared the way for the mass disenfranchisement of voters

[turbinetree]

Large numbers of voters could be blocked from casting ballots in November if they haven't participated in recent elections.

KIRA LERNER JUN 11, 2018, 11:52 AM

With its ruling Monday upholding Ohio’s practice of removing infrequent voters from its rolls, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the mass disenfranchisement of low-income, minority voters across the country.

In a 5-4 ruling, Justice Samuel Alito found that the National Voter Registration Act does not prevent Ohio from purging from the rolls voters who do not participate in federal elections for two years. If inactive voters do not respond to a mailer asking them to verify their address and do not vote for two more years, they are purged from the rolls.

The ruling will have implications beyond Ohio.

“Today’s decision threatens the ability of voters to have their voices heard in our elections,” said Stuart Naifeh, senior counsel at Demos, which challenged the state’s practices.

https://thinkprogress.org/the-supreme-court-just-cleared-the-way-for-the-mass-disenfranchisement-of-voters-14caef8ffae3/


How convenient that Alito got to write the majority opinion................this asshole knows what it was like during the Vietnam War, he got deferments, and he knows that men were going over to Nam and did not have the right to vote, and then in 1969 they got the right to vote, what a fucking asshole, and then Thomas he got deferments and then failed the medical and he also knew what it was like, what an asshole, and then Kennedy having been in the California National Guard, and he also knew, what a asshole, .........................and then there is Neil Gorsuch. never spent one minute in the military either as a kid or an adult ................................they are all traitors to the Constitution, just like the installed president by a foreign power, who by the way is a sexual predator.

And lets not forget that they gutted the Voting Rights Act..................its that simple


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.......................go out and register and vote, and register people to vote

[triron]

1. To preserve the coup at all costs.

[turbinetree]

2. Yes it is, it has been in the making since 1968....................when an asshole pardon Nixon.....

[world wide wally]

3. We all need to get as many people registered as possible.

Overwhelming them is our only option

[Lee-Lee]

4. That's what they are doing but worse here in NC

In NC they let outside groups send the registered mail, and if it’s returned that group gets to challenge the legitimacy of the voter and have them removed.

The law says that anyone can challenge a voter. So these voter suppression groups sit down and send out mail, targeted at democrats and minorities, and any that come back undeliverable they go challenge that voter. From there the Board of Elections sends a notice of a hearing to the voters registered address and the voter must show with proof they live there or they get purged.

They have removed thousands of voters from the rolls like this.

[3catwoman3]

5. Fuck. Mitch.

McConnell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Initech]

6. Nothing short of tyrannical.

[Docreed2003]

7. The GOP has been orchestrating total domination for years

This is nothing short of outrageous with a healthy dose of discourament that the USSC could make a decision like this which will disenfranchise our citizens. It's infuriating.