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Posted by Holliston Perni on 10/03/09 11:27
Huh -- and here I was just thinking that maybe what we need is an
intelligence/political-awareness test as a prerequisite for the vote.
Requiring, say, a 6th grade education and a 50 IQ would effectively
disenfranchise the remaining Bush supporters.
Hollis,
http://www.AmericanJunta.com
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> I have spent more than 40 years in public service fighting for voting
> rights and a better democracy. Today, I am sad to say, there are proposals
> being readied that would set us back in that struggle. A privately funded,
> unaccountable Commission organized by former Bush-Cheney campaign lawyer
> James Baker, III, and former President Jimmy Carter issued a report today
> that includes policy proposals that will disenfranchise over ten percent
> of eligible voters -- a national ID requirement to vote. This national
> voter ID proposal is essentially a poll tax that will disenfranchise
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> population that the Commission's ID proposal will most likely leave out of
> our democracy.
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