DO BLACK PEOPLE DESERVE TO VOTE?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Tell Congress to Reinstate the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court just struck down a key section of the landmark Voting Rights Act that requires jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination to get approval from the Justice Department before changing voting laws.

The law, signed in 1965, is considered one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation ever passed. In the last 10 years alone, the Voting Rights Act has helped stop Republican voter suppression laws in states like Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.

We have to get the law reinstated in places where voters desperately need protection from overreaching Republican governors and legislatures, before it's too late. According to The New York Times, "State officials across the South are aggressively moving ahead with new laws requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls." If passed, these new laws could effectively disenfranchise thousands of eligible voters.

Sign the petition to tell Congress to reinstate the Voting Rights Act.
http://action.democraticgovernors.org/page/s/tell-congress-to-reinstate-the-voting-rights-act-p2

[bravenak]

1. Signed it.nt

[iemitsu]

2. Me too.

I think we should also be starting a petition to impeach the Supreme Court Five.

[Nye Bevan]

3. You don't give Roberts a pass for saving Obamacare? (nt)

[iemitsu]

6. He saved a badly flawed plan that benefits for profit

insurance companies more than it benefits the average American. Roberts provided cover for the other right wing justices on this one.
And he led the charge, along with the other criminal justices, when they declared that there was no evidence that those states and counties, which were covered by the Voting Rights Act, would engage in discriminatory voting practices today.
No evidence? Humm.

[Nye Bevan]

7. Well since you put it like that, let's impeach the other 4 justices who voted for Obamacare (nt)

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. When are these old farts going to die so Obama-care can replace them with caring people?

They're like Dick (Satan) Cheney and will live forever, unless someone hacks their heart transplant devices.

[bravenak]

4. I'll sign that one too.

I might be willing to hang out in front of the grocery store with a clipboard for that one.

[iemitsu]

5. Yeah, I would gladly give some time to collecting those signatures too.

And I hate asking people to sign petitions.

[tavalon]

8. I signed

But your title made me think I was going to come over here and say something like, Duh? But yeah, this is in it's own way as awful as Citizen's United. If this fledgling country makes it another 100 years, I hope this Supreme Court is seen for the awful thing it is.

[KentuckyWoman]

10. Nobody DESERVES to vote

voting is not a privilege to be earned. It's constitutional and moral right. We should be talking about giving every single American AND legal resident the easiest way to vote technologically possible.

We need the Voting Rights act.... plus.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

12. that's a great point!

Then Anonymous hackers could vote 6.000 times! It gives new meaning to being Diebolded!

[blkmusclmachine]

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[Jeffersons Ghost]

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[GReedDiamond]

14. Signed - KnR...nt