Hillary Clinton declares war on Voter ID

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Hillary Clinton declares war on Voter ID

By Janell Ross, the Fix at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/06/04/in-houston-an-adamant-hillary-clinton-declares-war-on-voter-id/

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No one was expecting fire. But Clinton’s speech – focusing on some of what Clinton presented as the ugliest truths about voting in the United States – was no boilerplate stump speech. Clinton went big. She called for universal and automatic voter registration and a 20-day (or more) period of early voting in every state, before every election. Clinton's speech identified the work of protecting and expanding voting rights as a critical part of her campaign.

Clinton talked about the fact that African Americans consistently rank among the most deeply affected by the contours of Voter ID laws, must wait in the longest lines on Election Day and cast ballots at polling sites that very often house fewer machines and poll workers than other sites. That, Clinton told the crowd, “is no accident.”

Then, her campaign sent out a tweet that drove the point home.



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[Thinkingabout]

1. It is a subject which needs to fit the needs of the people, we should be

Voting every time, it is time to stick all of the voter suppression on the GOP's back who have bragged about all of the vote suppression laws they have passed in order of electing Democrats.

[HooptieWagon]

2. She just found out about GOP voter suppression?

Has she been asleep since 2000? Or is she just trying to embrace an issue that all Democrats will support, in the hope that her Wall St embrace is overlooked?

[jaysunb]

3. It should always be referred to as, " voter surpression." nt

[SunSeeker]

4. She isn't "declaring war on voter ID." She's calling for early voting and automatic registration.

She's smart enough to have researched that 77% of Americans support what they understand as "voter ID" namely having to show official photo ID to vote. Of course, most Americans don't understand how craven Republicans have been about what types of official ID they will accept, i.e., they'll accept concealed carry permits, but not student ID's. Nonetheless, the majority of Americans favor early voting and automatic registration. And there is no "voter fraud prevention" argument that can be used against early voting and automatic registration. That is why the Republicans keep mis-characterizing her position as being against voter ID. And of course, the Washington Post obliges them.

[Cha]

5. War on Voter Suppression! Yes.. Thank you Hillary! mahalo apple~

[NCTraveler]

6. K&R. nt.

[freshwest]

7. Read a NYT article about this, then Jeb's response, calling her 'divisive.' Yes, Jeb, the truth is!

He'd like to bury his chichanery under slick words. This should be told far and wide.

Every single day. The GOP can only win by cheating, they are stealing the nation for the Koch brothers.

Between Bernie and Hillary, I want to see the GOP put out of business.

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