Disenfranchisement needs to become a criminal offense.
You are taking from someone something of value without their permission when you make it inordinately difficult or impossible to exercise their right to vote.
Every single politician gives lip service to the idea that voting is one of the most valuable things any American has. Then right wing politicians turn around and put enormous effort into denying, infringing and harassing, virtually outlawing voters whom they don’t think will vote for them.
They lie, obfuscate and physically block voters, especially poor and minority voters from the polls. They do this by making the rules to vote so onerous that they can’t be met by the average voter who the republicans wish to harass, or they make getting to a polling place all most impossible for most of these voters. Witness Dodge city Kansas where the only polling place was moved Out of the city so that voters had no opportunity to get to the polling place. A judge agreed that this was wrong, but oh well...to late to do anything about it because...well...confusion ya know.
Enough is enough, there is no voter fraud going on. Period. There are no prisons filled with fraudulent voters. Period. There are no hoards of illegal voters running amok. Period.
There is election fraud, encouraged by republicans and their sycophants, voter intimidation, obfuscation, obstruction, lies and physical attacks. All against democrats and their supporters.
It’s time to end this now. All national offices must be controlled by federal law when it comes to voter ID. Period. Any attempt by a politician or other official to prevent voters from exercising their right to vote must be met with swift criminal charges, felony charges.
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I'm no Constitutional scholar but I've been saying this for years. The GOP has usurped our rights for long enough. Too many states are playing along when it suits them.
