boutons_
05-13-2008, 09:53 AM
Proof of Citizenship? Missouri Vies for the Worst Voting Law in the Country
Missouri's Republican-controlled legislature is rushing to pass one of the country's most draconian (http://www.joplinglobe.com/statenews/local_story_129230510.html) voter ID requirements less than two weeks after the Supreme Court (http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-scotus29apr29,0,4357699.story) upheld Indiana's similarly restrictive photo ID law -- a law that's best known for serving as a vital bulwark against nuns voting (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/nuns-students-blocked-fro_b_100489.html). Missouri trumps that: It now seems that the state that brought us the likes of GOP anti-voting fraud zealot "Thor" Hearne (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_F._%28Thor%29_Hearne) and became "Ground Zero" (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/reports/usattorneys/story/16224.html) for GOP vote suppression (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_republican_war_on_voting) schemes in 2006 could take the brass ring from Florida and Ohio (http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/06/democracy_at_ri.php) as the state most hostile to its own voters' rights.
There's a good reason that the Republicans are moving so quickly (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MO_VOTER_ID_MOOL-?SITE=MOPAR&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)to pass a proposed constitutional amendment (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/9/185321/0147/690/512889) that could thwart at least 240,000 Missouri (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-carnahan/elections-cant-really-be_b_101030.html)citizens from voting in November. The state is a presidential battleground state where recent gubernatorial and Senate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Missouri, _2002)races (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki%20Missouri_United_States_Senate_election,_200 6) have been decided by margins as little as 21,000 votes.
"When anybody fraudulently votes (http://www.truthaboutfraud.org/), it diminishes all of our votes," he said last week when the resolution passed the state House.
( boutons: there is NO proof that voter fraud anywhere in US exists. dubya's DoJ fraud goons, aka Repug US attorneys, after 7 years of trying, haven't uncovered ANY fraud that justifies the wasted effort)
But there hasn't been a single proven case (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpf_8tKm7uM&feature=related) of voter impersonation at the polls in the state's history. And based on the experience of Arizona (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/11/06/arizona_voters/), between seven (http://www.brennancenter.org/page/-/d/download_file_39242.pdf) and 30 percent (http://www.alternet.org/democracy/82348/?page=entire) of citizens lack the citizenship documentation needed to register to vote.
View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/85198/
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The Repugs are truly Repugnant anti-American assholes.
Missouri's Republican-controlled legislature is rushing to pass one of the country's most draconian (http://www.joplinglobe.com/statenews/local_story_129230510.html) voter ID requirements less than two weeks after the Supreme Court (http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-scotus29apr29,0,4357699.story) upheld Indiana's similarly restrictive photo ID law -- a law that's best known for serving as a vital bulwark against nuns voting (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/nuns-students-blocked-fro_b_100489.html). Missouri trumps that: It now seems that the state that brought us the likes of GOP anti-voting fraud zealot "Thor" Hearne (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_F._%28Thor%29_Hearne) and became "Ground Zero" (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/reports/usattorneys/story/16224.html) for GOP vote suppression (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_republican_war_on_voting) schemes in 2006 could take the brass ring from Florida and Ohio (http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/06/democracy_at_ri.php) as the state most hostile to its own voters' rights.
There's a good reason that the Republicans are moving so quickly (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MO_VOTER_ID_MOOL-?SITE=MOPAR&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)to pass a proposed constitutional amendment (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/9/185321/0147/690/512889) that could thwart at least 240,000 Missouri (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-carnahan/elections-cant-really-be_b_101030.html)citizens from voting in November. The state is a presidential battleground state where recent gubernatorial and Senate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Missouri, _2002)races (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki%20Missouri_United_States_Senate_election,_200 6) have been decided by margins as little as 21,000 votes.
"When anybody fraudulently votes (http://www.truthaboutfraud.org/), it diminishes all of our votes," he said last week when the resolution passed the state House.
( boutons: there is NO proof that voter fraud anywhere in US exists. dubya's DoJ fraud goons, aka Repug US attorneys, after 7 years of trying, haven't uncovered ANY fraud that justifies the wasted effort)
But there hasn't been a single proven case (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpf_8tKm7uM&feature=related) of voter impersonation at the polls in the state's history. And based on the experience of Arizona (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/11/06/arizona_voters/), between seven (http://www.brennancenter.org/page/-/d/download_file_39242.pdf) and 30 percent (http://www.alternet.org/democracy/82348/?page=entire) of citizens lack the citizenship documentation needed to register to vote.
View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/85198/
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The Repugs are truly Repugnant anti-American assholes.