{"id":10887,"date":"2013-08-17T01:41:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T08:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10887"},"modified":"2013-08-17T01:41:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T08:41:07","slug":"an-offensive-in-the-republican-war-on-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/17\/an-offensive-in-the-republican-war-on-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"An Offensive in the Republican War on Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party has a war on _______.  Just fill in the blank with anything good for America, and you\u2019re right!  The Republican War on Voting has been going on for years, but their most recent big offensive, now taking place in McCrorystan, opens a window on Republican intentions for the future of our right to elect our representatives.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"17NCVotingRights\"IN THE wake of the Supreme Court\u2019s Shelby v. Holder<\/a> decision, which gutted significant portions<\/a> of the Voting Rights Act, it\u2019s difficult to say which of the many recently passed voter-suppression bills constitutes the greatest threat to that most sacred of American freedoms: the right to vote. The contest has several leading contenders, but the winner just might be North Carolina\u2019s especially draconian bill, signed into law<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

The bill includes the usual provisions that have come to characterize the quiet assault on the franchise: a shortened early-voting period, the elimination of the state\u2019s successful same-day registration program and, of course, a strict photo identification requirement despite any evidence of voter fraud in the state. <\/p>\n

What makes this law unique is how much further it goes<\/strong>. It includes no fewer than 12 extra provisions<\/a> that prohibit such things as counties extending polling hours by one hour in the event of unusual circumstances (such as, say, long lines); provisional voting should someone, say, mistakenly go to the wrong precinct; and pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds, who could previously register to vote before they turned 18. <\/p>\n

The bill is a truly abominable piece of anti-democratic legislation, the only likely effect of which will be to make it increasingly difficult \u2014 maybe even impossible \u2014 for some people who don\u2019t typically support Republicans to be able to vote<\/strong>. Sadly, none of that seemed to bother Gov. Pat McCrory (R), who signed it into law regardless\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Photo Credit: Jackie Whiting<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow underlines this by tying it into the Republican War on Students, especially black students.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

The behavior of the Republican Party in the Totalitarian Plutocracy of McCrorystan, exemplifies the overall Republican goal to a establish a permanent totalitarian Regime of one-party rule, in which elections exist for show only, just like Germany did in the 1930s.<\/font><\/p>\n

The people in the audience at that county meeting clearly realized what the Republicans are full of, as their vocal support for the lone Democrat made clear.<\/font><\/p>\n

Considering the case of Montravias King, Jim Crow has clearly returned. The GOP has said, "You can’t run or vote, Boy." Next they might pass a law requiring black people to call them "massa".<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party has a war on _______.  Just fill in the blank with anything good for America, and you\u2019re right!  The Republican War on Voting has been going on for years, but their most recent big offensive, now taking place in McCrorystan, opens a window on Republican intentions for the future of our right […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}