What Dems must do for voting suppression (reply to huff po article by poster)

[mfcorey1]

Murph S. (murphthesurf3)
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WHAT THE DEMS HAVE TO DO

Begin by understanding that this is what is going on.....UNDERNEATH IT ALL DEMS HAVE TO SAY THAT THOSE WHO RULE THE GOP ARE GOING TO TRY TO BUY THE MIDTERMS and TO BLOCK THE VOTE SO THAT THOSE WHO OPPOSE THEM CANNOT EXERCISE THE FRANCHISE. AND THEIR AGENTS IN GOVERNMENT IN THE SUPREME COURT AND THE LEGISLATURE HAVE MADE THIS ACCEPTABLE.

WHAT THEN MUST BE DONE-

1) The Democratic Party must stop pulling its punches; being polite and embracing the fake glory of bipartisan action. It must aggressively challenge everything.

2) The Democratic Party must develop the same kind of messaging and messaging discipline as the GOP has. Pointed, sharp, accusatory, demanding.

3)The Democratic Party must refute every lie: loudly and clearly and repetitively.

4) The Democratic Party must make it painfully clear why Democrats and those who value the middle and lower classes must vote Democratic in the largest numbers possible.

5) The Democratic Party must make one to one, door to door, phone to phone contact the cornerstone of its efforts bringing out the base and then adding every occasional Democratic voter to it while developing independent voters creating networks of voters unaffected by Big Money and able to take on new laws and regulations meant to keep them from voting.

6) The Democratic Party must check and double check all of its registrations and get everyone the proper ID while educating its voters as to the real law and how to challenge fraudulent efforts to keep them from voting.

7) The Democratic Party must tap into the resources of every wealthy person who leans Democratic to get them to take on the GOP Big Money crowd in key states to buy the necessary time on TV and radio, in print and to mount far ranging internet efforts.

8) The Democratic Party must make the most of a national organizing project, spearheaded by Bill Clinton, to educate voters, demand reforms, and push back against restrictive laws.

9) The Democrats in Congress must push, and push hard, for the reinstatement of a meaningful Voting Rights Act knowing they will not get it but also knowing that demanding it forces the GOP to say "NO."

10) The Democrats must challenge in court every state legislature that passes legislation they believe to be Unconstitutional and advertise their action in defense of the little guy.

If the Dems lose the upcoming mdterms they will lose a lot more than one election. This could well make 2016, 2018 and 2020 ever steeper climbs despite the demographics.

11 APR 6:20 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/11/obama-voter-fraud_n_5135357.html#comments

[Gothmog]

1. In Texas we are fighting back

One way is to use vote by mail to get around voter id. The voter id law does not apply to vote by mail. For the primary, we increased the number of Democrats voting in the Texas Democratic primary from 96 to 1100 in my county and we have 2100 Democrats signed up to vote by mail in the upcoming elections. We are planning on getting as many people signed up to vote by mail for the general election.

The other thing we are doing is contacting the 45,000 voters ego voted in the 2012 election but who did not vote in the 2010 midterms in person to get written pledges for these voters to vote. This program is going well. We can mail to these voters their signed pledged cards during early voting in the general election.

[mfcorey1]

2. Bravo to Texas. I hope the rest of the states are following your example. It is

crucial that we turn out in 2014 or we will see the end of democracy as we once knew it.

[tabbycat31]

3. I registered 21 voters today

And we have an infographic about the state's voter ID laws and I made sure people had the proper ID when registering (not required, but I double checked with them).