Posted by Default_User on 12/23/88 11:27

No, just the homeless minorities that didn't leave New Orleans a few weeks
ago because they spent their welfare check on meth or rock.


"Holliston Perni" <hperni@AmericanJunta.com> wrote in message
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> 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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> "JAS" <jasmine@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:dgr3g3$27q$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
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