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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Biden marks 'Bloody Sunday' by signing voting rights order
By AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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PTownsend
And Trump Republicans will oppose the measure. They know they cannot win the White House without continuing their efforts to restrict voting. While they continue to undermine beliefs in elections, even after it's been clearly shown they lost an election. The Republicans and others in the global far right want to further weaken democracies. How are the anti-democracy movements in Myanmar and Hong Kong working out for the general populations there?
GdTokyo
One party wants to make it easier for all Americans to vote. The other wants to limit voting by the poor and minorities under the non-existent guise of protecting “election integrity.” (Fun fact: there is NO wide spread voter fraud in American elections. Zero. Zip, Zilch. Nada. None.)
Why would a party make up such a patently false, laughably disprovable lie? Because said “party” had been co-opted by cultists who are radioactive to an entire generation and demographic of the electorate, and would cease to exist if voting were made easy.
Desert Tortoise
The crux of the problem for America is the widespread view that any social or economic advance made by Black or Hispanic Americans always and necessarily comes at the expense of white Americans, that racial justice is a zero sum game. Until that falsehood is buried progress in race relations in the US will be slow or non-existent.
Raw Beer
Yeah, the key word there is "eligible".
Lazarus Knows
Desert Tortoise is right.
Raw Beer is right. We need to broaden the number of eligible voters. Felons, for example, should be given the vote.
ulysses
Unbelievable that even after 56 years, the GOP bigots are still continuing with their 'Bloody Sunday'.
ulysses
It is not!!!
Equality is never at the expense of anyone, only those with a sense of entitlement believe they lose when society becomes more equal.
WilliB
"Voting access" is a euphemism for making elections so intransparent and loose that cheating becomes the norm and elections lose meaning. Of course it is not Biden himself who cooks these orders, he reads what his handlers give him.
WilliB
GdTokyo
Including dead Americans, multiple Americans, non-existant Americans and non-Americans, you mean? Just for reference, there is no European country that allows anonymous mass mail votes with no verification. None.
Desert Tortoise
I agree. But in America today too many whites who are themselves often struggling to make ends meet see gains by other racial and ethnic groups coming at their expense. "Why are their kids getting aid for college and mine dont?" Sigh. "Nobody's helping me". It's not a zero sum game and whites have benefitted from massive government help over the years but it is easy enough to believe and there are no shortage of politicians willing to use that repugnant theme to get votes.
ulysses
Donald's idiots made enough allegation without any proof for the courts to laugh them out. Who can forget rudy's stellar witness claiming she saw dead people voting.
Neither does the US, get your facts straight!!!
ulysses
Since we are talking about voters rights here, how does a minority getting the right to vote affect a White person, poor or otherwise?
WilliB
It does not, and minorities already have the right to vote. But allowing allowing unchecked, illegal, and fictious votes into the process affects everybody, minorities included. You are welcome.
WilliB
ulysses
Refusing to hear a case on the basis of procedural excuses ("standing", "too late" etc) does not mean "laughing them out".
You should read Clarence Thomas dissenting opinon on the last SOTUS decision. It is quite scathing, and well argued. I wonder if you could find anything wrong in it.
Toasted Heretic
Apart from the widespread voter suppression in predominantly black and Hispanic areas.
There was harsh scrutiny of state policy that placed 53,000 voter registrations in suspense over small discrepancies, 70% of which were Black voters. Georgia’s practice of aggressively purging hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls became a matter of national attention. For many, the election illuminated how severely restrictive voting rules could affect an election outcome.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/13/georgia-election-high-black-voter-turnout-activist-efforts-stacey-abrams
45 even admitted that if it was easier to vote, his disgraceful GOP would never be elected again.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republican-party-voting-reform-coronavirus
Lazarus Knows
Can you give me examples of illegal, fictitious, and unchecked votes?
Bear in mind, of course, that checking to see a voter's eligibility means that the vote is, by definition, not unchecked. Tread carefully.
bob
Hi Ulysses.
I think before pontificating on Bloody Sunday or the history of American race relations, you might want to Google "George Wallace party affiliation."
Hint: Its not the GOP.
You might also be surprised to learn what party created the KKK.
Learning is fun.