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[Gazette Blog Editor's note: While I don't usually advertise my longstanding membership in the ACLU because, for some reason, this organization really freaks out my right wing friends, I am hereby making an exception - because even honest, honorable righties would have to agree with this cause, and because maybe it will help show my righty friends that the ACLU really does stand for the right things, the things that all of us should value most about our country.]
Dear Friends,
Call me old-fashioned but I believe that elections should be decided by how many votes you can win, not how many voters you can keep away from the polling booth.
And yet, all across the country, new voter suppression laws are popping up seemingly every day. These laws are stupid and dangerous because they take aim at America's most vulnerable voters — people of color, the poor, the elderly, students and the disabled. It's just wrong.
I've had enough and I'm fighting back with everything I've got. That's why I've signed on to work with you and the ACLU to help stop voter suppression. I'm doing what I can to help — will you join me?
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Cheat. That's what cowards do when they can't win an election fair and square. These voter suppression laws aren't designed to get more people to vote, but are aimed at making sure fewer people vote.
Someone needs to fight back — to stand up for one of our most treasured fundamental freedoms. And that someone is the ACLU.
With your support, ACLU legal teams are on-the-ground in all 50 states working to expand voter participation and defend voting rights. And the whole organization is gearing up for an all-out voter protection effort in the 2014 elections. If cynical efforts to undermine voting rights make you as angry as they make me, now is the time to act.
I don't always agree with the ACLU. Who does? But, surely we all can agree that, trying to stop people from voting isn't democratic. It's stupid and evil and needs to be challenged at every turn. Let's stand with the ACLU as they lead the fight to protect voting rights.
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Sincerely,
 Lewis Black |
1 comment:
I happen to be an honest and honorable person you would probably call "right wing," though in reality I am a Constitutionalist. That puts me right down the middle of the political spectrum, which means I am about 15 klicks to the right of the Progressive/Socialist/Marxists-in-disguise and the Republicans-In-Name-Only, and about 5 klicks to the right of the true Republicans.
I offer this preface because I am absolutely opposed to anyone voting without proof of citizenship and identity for the purpose of proving both eligibility to vote and proving the voter only votes once. That is the only legitimate requirement and it is an absolutely essential requirement. Anything less will invariably be rigged by individuals, by agendas, by political parties, and by criminals (but I repeat myself).
Any honest and honorable left-winger would agree with the above if one could be found, but I haven't met one yet. (Those professing membership in that group have proven upon examination to be either liars and frauds or the "useful idiots" (V.I. Lenins description of his followers) of liars and frauds.)
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