The Most Orwellian Voter ID Ad You've Ever Seen

[SoCalDem]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/07/10/the_most_orwellian_voter_id_ad_you_ve_ever_seen.html?wpisrc=obnetwork

By David Weigel

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Posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012, at 10:07 AM ET

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On Sunday, Daniel Denvir broke the news that a Mitt Romney bundler, Chris Bravacos, had secured a contract to promote Pennsylvania's new Voter ID law. On Monday, the bundler's company, the Bravo Group, pulled its demo ads off of Vimeo. You should go and read the rest of Denvir's story for the details, and to understand the crooked veins of connections between donors and third-party groups and legislators. In the meantime, you can watch the first ad, rescued by a local Occupy group.

A law that builds a new hurdle for 9.2 percent of Pennsylvania voters is just like the Voting Rights Act that allowed disenfranchised blacks to go to the polls. It makes so much sense now!

[ieoeja]

1. So will Pennsylvania lose 9.2 percent of their Representatives in the House?

Amendment XIV (the amendment that Conservatives absolutely hate):

Section 2.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But 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.



Excerpt that remains in context: when the right to vote is denied except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced

[DiverDave]

2. Hee-Hee

Gotta figure out what the numbers will be.

This will make them pitch a fit lol

[ieoeja]

3. I was looking for something else when I found that. And I can not find a later amendment ...

... that cancels it. The "white males" and "21 years of age" portion has been amended. But not the fact that denying people the right to vote decreases their representation.

I think I might try to contact my congress critter about this one.