High Point University College Republican chairwoman suppresses voter registration

[Galraedia]

Meet Leigh Thomas, the chair of the High Point University Young Republicans, who since yesterday has become the poster child for voter suppression. She was videotaped laying down the law to campus security that she did not -- positively did not -- want any voter registration happening on her campus:

“I understand the registration process. I’m just not sure if this is something I would want to have on this High Point University campus, the registration of voting."

Read more: http://blog.wataugawatch.net/2014/10/the-voter-reg-group-blocked-from-high.html

[drynberg]

1. Leigh Thomas, you don't get to create the world in your own image, you are in the USA

Deal with it.

[rtracey]

2. I don't seem to understand

Who is she....the chair of the High Point University Young Republicans? and where is the Dean of the school....wow and she is against voter registration for ALL including republicans...she will be talked too...... Has anyone actually emailed the President of the school about this?

[DhhD]

3. Conservatives Are Conspiring to Disenfranchise Millions of Americans

http://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2012/04/pdf/voter_supression.pdf

Voter Suppression 101
How Conservatives Are Conspiring to Disenfranchise
Millions of Americans
Scott Keyes, Ian Millhiser, Tobin Van Ostern, and Abraham White April 2012

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Unfortunately, the rapid spread of these proposals in states as different as Florida
and Wisconsin is not occurring by accident. Instead, many of these laws are being
drafted and spread through corporate-backed entities such as the American Legislative
Exchange Council, or ALEC, as uncovered in a previous Center for American Progress
investigative report.2 Detailed in that report, ALEC charges corporations such as Koch
Industries Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and The Coca-Cola Co. a fee and gives them access
to members of state legislatures. Under ALEC’s auspices, legislators, corporate representatives,
and ALEC officials work together to draft model legislation.

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