Let’s Get Serious About Voter Suppression

[babylonsister]

What if?

http://www.nationalmemo.com/lets-get-serious-about-voter-suppression/

Let’s Get Serious About Voter Suppression
July 18th, 2012 12:00 am
Leonard Pitts Jr.

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Sorry, but there can be little doubt that suppression — not just of the black vote, by the way, but also of the youth and Hispanic votes — is a key goal of this shrinking party.

But what if, instead of suppressing votes, we broaden the electorate? Curtis Gans, director of the aforementioned CSAE, believes the United States should adopt Mexico’s system, wherein the government automatically issues every citizen a biometric ID card.

Such a card, encoded with your personal information — and with safeguards to protect your privacy — would eliminate whatever little voter registration fraud there is. There would be no fraud because there would be no registration. Every eligible citizen would simply swipe his or her card and vote.

And the GOP would have to make its case before America in the fullness of its diversity, an electorate not whittled down by artificial barriers designed to give one party an advantage over another. Surely that’s something they’d want, right?

C’mon, be serious.

[turtlerescue1]

1. Simply put, the GOPers only need to read that Constitution

its in the start of the paperwork, "All men are created equal". Supposedly that a Federal
guarantee in writing, how can the States usurp it?

All of us know what this is about. Some have said the GOPers attempts fall within "high crimes and misdemeanors". It sure is UN-American.

[Bolo Boffin]

2. God, I can hear the squealing brakes as the right-wing propagandists stop hawking voter fraud

and start screaming about intrusive government.

[SoutherDem]

3. I remember many years ago someone suggested a national ID

I remember many outcries from the Republicans about "big government" and the religious fundamentalist talking about the "mark of the beast" and the beginning of a "one world government".