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redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 11:43 AM Jun 2016

Be sure everyone you help register or are talking to know what ID is needed to vote.

Be sure they have checked with voter registration officials to make sure their registration matches exactly the id they are going to present. Make sure the address matches as well.

This seems very mundane, but so many states are trying to stop us from voting, especially minorities and elderly people. I think we should have people calling our voters and making sure they have what they need to legally vote.

I predict a really nasty November trying to vote.

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Be sure everyone you help register or are talking to know what ID is needed to vote. (Original Post) redstatebluegirl Jun 2016 OP
Exactly. Each one reach one...just among your own entourage. Surya Gayatri Jun 2016 #1
Exactly!!!! redstatebluegirl Jun 2016 #5
K&R ismnotwasm Jun 2016 #2
Many Hillary supporters do not view this as voter suppression. FourScore Jun 2016 #3
. ismnotwasm Jun 2016 #4
ID is not required in California. Control-Z Jun 2016 #6
The Florida Democratic Party is concentrating on those things csziggy Jun 2016 #7
That's not an issue in Oregon which is a pro-voting State. Bluenorthwest Jun 2016 #8
If only all of the states were as far along but they are not. redstatebluegirl Jun 2016 #9
 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
1. Exactly. Each one reach one...just among your own entourage.
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 11:47 AM
Jun 2016

Ensuring voting rights, one potential voter at a time.

FourScore

(9,704 posts)
3. Many Hillary supporters do not view this as voter suppression.
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 12:04 PM
Jun 2016

They made that quite clear during the AZ and NY primaries.

I don't think they have any reason to complain now.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
7. The Florida Democratic Party is concentrating on those things
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 03:51 PM
Jun 2016

At least that is what I was told by the person from the FDP campaign office I met with Tuesday (who was trying to recruit me to volunteer to work with the state offices in Tallahassee).

Since the Florida primary is long over (March 15) they are gearing up for the general election. Saturday there is a training session on registering people to vote. They will doing that as much as possible, depending on how many volunteers they get.

The other things they are emphasizing are getting people out to vote and supporting the candidates for the down ticket races. Since they haven't got a single Democrat signed on to replace Representative Gwen Graham in District 2, this will be a challenge!

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
8. That's not an issue in Oregon which is a pro-voting State.
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 05:10 PM
Jun 2016

How long will other States put up with this unmitigated bullshit? I predict voting in late October while eating Halloween candy and smoking a joint in my favorite polling place, my own living room. I never ask myself for ID. It seems redundant.

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
9. If only all of the states were as far along but they are not.
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 05:33 PM
Jun 2016

Most of the southern states have instituted stupid poll rules. I'm waiting for a poll tax that will be next. Stupid, it should be easy to vote.

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