[net-gold] Re: [LRPPro] UNITED STATES: STATES: TENNESSEE : LAW : POLITICS: ELECTIONS AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS: VOTING : POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : BILLIONAIRES: Jim Cooper and Dick Durbin Blast Tennessee's New Voter ID Laws, Brough
- From: avrom shtern <adirondacksub@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: LRPPro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:17:28 -0400
In principle I am with you on this David. The US used to be the country
where individual rights took precedence. You did not require an internal
passport as in other quasi fascist-totalitarian-dictatorial countries.
However, in Canada, identification is requested for voting purposes.
The difference between the Canadian voting system and the US electoral
system on the Federal scene for example is that in Canada voters are not
discouraged to vote. Most are on the rolls and those who are not can
register even at the last moment. Secondly, Federal elections are not local
affairs they are handled by Elections Canada.
To make the US vote a lot fairer it would have to be Federalized. I do not
see that coming
any time soon when we have Teabaggers all over the place. States rights
issues will also come into play.
Avrom
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:05 AM, David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> UNITED STATES: STATES: TENNESSEE :
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> LAW : POLITICS: ELECTIONS AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS: VOTING :
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> POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
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> BILLIONAIRES:
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> Jim Cooper and Dick Durbin Blast Tennessee's New Voter ID Laws,
> Brought to You by Bill Ketron and the Koch Brothers:
> Vote of No Confidence
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> Jim Cooper and Dick Durbin Blast Tennessee's New Voter ID Laws,
> Brought to You by Bill Ketron and the Koch Brothers:
> Vote of No Confidence
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> by Jonathan Meador
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> Nashville Scene
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> http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/jim-cooper-and-dick-
> durbin-blast-tennessees-new-voter-id-laws-brought-to-you-by-
> bill-ketron-and-the-koch-brothers/Content?oid=2631097
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> A shorter URL for the above link:
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> http://tinyurl.com/3jommwy
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> As chair of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil
> Rights and Human Rights, Durbin called a hearing in Washington last week
> to examine the recent rash of state laws limiting voter enfranchisement
> laws enacted ostensibly to combat the hackneyed bogeyman that is voter
> fraud. Durbin's appearance in Nashville comes on the heels of a letter he
> sent to Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam on Sept. 8, in which the Illinois
> Democrat took to task the state's new voter ID law that requires would-be
> ballot casters to present government-issued identification. Opponents have
> identified such measures as designed to reduce turnout among minority,
> young, elderly, disabled, homeless and working-class electorates.
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> At the roundtable, Durbin lambasted the law and compared it to a form of
> poll tax.
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> "There ought to be a conscious effort and a dedication of resources to
> give people an easy way to establish their legality and legitimacy as
> voters," Durbin said. "If this is a matter of you have to take off work,
> as I understand it, and spend four hours waiting for photo IDs, I think
> that kind of gets to the point where it creates a hardship [on people]."
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> Cooper echoed the sentiment, expressing concern that the new law, which is
> slated to go into effect next year, will not only result in widespread
> disenfranchisement but will upset Tennessee's history of voting equity.
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> "We are the state that had the Supreme Court case of Baker v. Carr, which
> established for the first time in American history the 'one person, one
> vote' principle," Cooper said. "We don't want to amend that and say 'one
> person if you have a government-issued photo ID.' "
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> But like similar voting restriction bills that have cropped up across the
> nation, Tennessee's was born in the private sector.
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> Signed by Haslam on June 13 of this year, the law, Senate Bill 16, was
> introduced into the Tennessee legislature by Republican state Sen. Bill
> Ketron. But its inspiration and basic structure were provided by scribes
> within the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which acts as a
> kind of model legislation factory for business interests eager to
> influence state governments and their respective lawmakers. The
> organization made headlines last year for its role in drafting Arizona's
> controversial anti-immigrant prison law, with a little help from corporate
> beneficiaries such as Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America.
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> "They have played a major role [in crafting voter ID legislation]," Durbin
> says of ALEC. "Of course, their major financiers are the Koch brothers,
> who come to this conversation with a clear political agenda. And if you
> look at the money behind ALEC, you'll find that it's the Koch brothers.
> You'll also find that the voters most affected by these laws tend to vote
> Democratic. Add 'em up."
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> The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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> Sincerely,
> David Dillard
> Temple University
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