Posted by GMAN on 09/22/05 01:09

In article <dgr3g3$27q$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>, "JAS" <jasmine@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>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 Americans of all
>backgrounds, but the poor, the disabled, the elderly, students, and people
>of color would bear the greatest burden. The Katrina victims - those without
>the means to escape the storm - typify the population that the Commission's
>ID proposal will most likely leave out of our democracy.
>
>Join With Me in Fighting Against This New Poll Tax Proposal
>http://johnconyers.com
>
>
How will this leave people out? About the only ones it will leave out are the
ones not legally supposed to vote in the first place.

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