Carey: Voter suppression could ‘derail’ LGBT progress

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http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/01/27/carey-voter-surpression-could-derail-lgbt-progress/

BALTIMORE — The head of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force on Friday identified efforts to keep minorities from going to the polls on Election Day as the latest tool in the arsenal of anti-gay forces to stop LGBT progress.

Rea Carey, the Task Force’s executive director, said during her 2012 “State of the Movement” address that “the very ability to cast a vote” has been under attack and called on LGBT rights supporters to fight those efforts and bring voters to the polls.

“They could derail our progress for years by focusing on something that our movement could easily mistake as not ‘our’ issue,” Carey said. “Believe me, it is our issue when we or our allies find ourselves without easy access to the polls.”

Carey said executive orders in 14 states and 20 new laws have made it harder for five million people to vote this year. According to Carey, these initiatives are a “systematic effort” to take the vote away from people of color, students, the working poor and unemployed and other groups.

[Bluenorthwest]

1. Rea Carey is great

I really like what she had to say, and how she said it.

[William769]

2. Recommended.

[MarkCharles]

3. Rachel Maddow has been keeping a close eye upon these changes from Maine to

every other Republican controlled state.

Perhaps Rea is just reinforcing Rachel's hard investigative work on these changes.

[Vanje]

4. Kix n Rex nt