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This is a piece from October of last year, but seems highly relevant right about now. Artur Davis, former US Congressman from Alabama, wrote that:
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Originally Posted by Artur Davis
I’ve changed my mind on voter ID laws...Without any evidence to back it up, I lapsed into the rhetoric of various partisans and activists who contend that requiring photo identification to vote is a suppression tactic...The truth is that the most aggressive contemporary voter suppression in the African American community, at least in Alabama, is the wholesale manufacture of ballots....Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights — that’s suppression by any light.
In that very last sentence, he sums it up. When ineligible voters are able to participate in elections, the votes of legitimate voters are diluted and thus suppressed. Suppression from either direction--whether efforts to block legit voters from voting, or efforts to enable illegit voters to vote, must be stopped.
The piece is very well written, gives a balanced view of the problem, in contrast to some of the deliberately misleading partisan tripe that we're seeing. It's well worth reading.
I guess he did what he thought would get him re-elected instead of what he felt was right. Seems his current party change is another move in that direction.
what good is going to come of a debate where either side is lying, just trying to troll for useful idiots? Actually based on what little I can find out I don't think the decision by the fed judge yesterday about the FL law was bad. IOW, I am willing to consider whether there were really efforts at 'voter suppression' coming from the R side. But as long as there are not more Artur Davis willing to jettison the phony debate and adopt a more honest and balanced approach, we're unlikely to make any real progress.
New Mexican Democrats snuffed out the Green Party. Democrats hate choice and competition. Heck, even Democrats over at "Democratic Underground" will still blame Nader for Bush. The last thing progressives want is choice, democracy, and independent thought. They don't like it.
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