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In reply to the discussion: Supreme Court Greenlights Ohio's Voter Purge Policy [View all]TimeSnowDemos
(476 posts)4. Who's surprised?
No one.
As has happened over and over in US history, voting rights are either stripped away from or never granted to certain groups.
Why?
To drive down participation.
Not that it really matter in America, which is hardly a properly functioning democracy.
Still, even in that context, this is depressing.
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+5 Recognition of the real intelligence level of Americans & voters is off.
appalachiablue
Jun 2018
#62
Mitchell precipitated a constitutional crisis. Obama should have upped the ante:
yurbud
Jun 2018
#45
Gorsuch is illegitimate because Comey and the FBI targeted the Democratic candidate
StevieM
Jun 2018
#14
I am not happy with the HRC-bashers in our own party who treated her unfairly IMO.
StevieM
Jun 2018
#20
Is the candidate at all responsible for not earning votes from past OBAMA voters?
yurbud
Jun 2018
#46
She was about to win those voters, along with past ROMNEY voters. Then Comey intervened.
StevieM
Jun 2018
#52
I understand that. But if I have not moved, etc., why should I jump through hoops to vote?
dameatball
Jun 2018
#54
Is this a uniform policy for all voters regardless of of age, ethnicity, location of residence?
Freethinker65
Jun 2018
#8
What precisely, is reasonable about a implementing solution lacking a problem?
LanternWaste
Jun 2018
#43
I think the GOP will use the decision to claim voter fraud is rampant when it is not
Freethinker65
Jun 2018
#50
5-4 decisions like this make me want to find any liberal who didn't vote Dem
IronLionZion
Jun 2018
#23
Okay so now people like Kobach can go through the voter rolls and kick people off. Great.
YOHABLO
Jun 2018
#37