Posted on Jan 30, 2022
Republicans must stop sabotaging voting rights
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“A man without a vote is a man without protection,” Lyndon Johnson once said. “And the vote is the most powerful instrument designed by man for breaking down injustice.”
These days, Republicans in state legislatures and the United States Congress are depriving lots of Americans of the protection and power that come with casting a ballot.
It hasn’t always been that way.
Until recently, the parties did not differ that much about extending the right to vote to all eligible Americans: 30 of 32 Republicans in the U.S. Senate supported the Civil Rights Act of 1965, which authorized the federal government to ensure that Blacks could register and vote in jurisdictions with a history of restricting their access to the polls. Republicans played an essential role in breaking a filibuster of the bill by southern Democrats.
These days, Republicans in state legislatures and the United States Congress are depriving lots of Americans of the protection and power that come with casting a ballot.
It hasn’t always been that way.
Until recently, the parties did not differ that much about extending the right to vote to all eligible Americans: 30 of 32 Republicans in the U.S. Senate supported the Civil Rights Act of 1965, which authorized the federal government to ensure that Blacks could register and vote in jurisdictions with a history of restricting their access to the polls. Republicans played an essential role in breaking a filibuster of the bill by southern Democrats.
Republicans must stop sabotaging voting rights
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CPL LaForest Gray
It’s 2022’ LTC David Brown some lessons are loss, some are learned from. It’ll never be another repeat, ever.
Voter suppression was spark that ignited Ocoee Massacre. A century later, Florida’s Black voters are still facing obstacles
By DESIREE STENNETT
ORLANDO SENTINEL
OCT 22, 2020 AT 5:41 AM
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/ocoee-massacre/os-ne-black-voter-suppression-ocoee-20201022-z6kwn5xuafdevlhkvy6g6effui-htmlstory.html
COLLECTION
Civil Rights History Project
Voting Rights
https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/articles-and-essays/voting-rights/
They dared to register blacks to vote, and the KKK killed them: A 52-year-old case is closed — unsolved
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-doj-civil-rights-20160621-snap-story.html?_amp=true
Two Murders That Ignited Passage of the Voting Rights Act
https://www.thedailybeast.com/two-murders-that-ignited-passage-of-the-voting-rights-act
Voter suppression was spark that ignited Ocoee Massacre. A century later, Florida’s Black voters are still facing obstacles
By DESIREE STENNETT
ORLANDO SENTINEL
OCT 22, 2020 AT 5:41 AM
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/ocoee-massacre/os-ne-black-voter-suppression-ocoee-20201022-z6kwn5xuafdevlhkvy6g6effui-htmlstory.html
COLLECTION
Civil Rights History Project
Voting Rights
https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/articles-and-essays/voting-rights/
They dared to register blacks to vote, and the KKK killed them: A 52-year-old case is closed — unsolved
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-doj-civil-rights-20160621-snap-story.html?_amp=true
Two Murders That Ignited Passage of the Voting Rights Act
https://www.thedailybeast.com/two-murders-that-ignited-passage-of-the-voting-rights-act
Voter suppression was spark that ignited Ocoee Massacre. A century later, Florida’s Black voters...
The deadly violence that forced Ocoee’s Black residents to flee the area a century ago was, at its crux, an attempt at terrorizing people into forgoing their right to vote. But even in 2020, the long legacy of suppressing the Black vote remains alive.
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LTC David Brown
CPL LaForest Gray - I can not do anything about the past. To think that what went on one hundred years ago is what is happening today is ridiculous. When I started voting poles were open from 7 am to 7 pm one day period. You could vote absentee if you were out of state. Now we can vote weeks before an election, mail in voting, I can not any imaging this is voter suppression.
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LTC David Brown
CPL LaForest Gray - you have one week of early voting in Florida. https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_in_Florida
Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics
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SPC Les Darbison
Facts don't matter to those that don't bother to do there own home-work! And Ppl like Don Lemon, or morning Joe are were the get there unbiased news from!
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Explain who their doing that when the Democrats are ones trying to change the voting laws,. The Voting law have work for a very long time but it's 2as not 7ntil Trump ran we saw dead people started vote and now felon illegals and people voting to two county and how did China sneak votes in via FedEx to Atlanta GA. Seem just the other way to me from the law that have stood for so long without any funny business.
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Other than gerrymandering and laws passed by States I have not seen anything that reaches sabotage. They have the authority, or it will be challenged in court. Mid-terms in November so plenty of work for legal folks.
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