Hillary Clinton Scores With Voting Rights Announcement

[Nasty Jack]

Hillary Clinton has come up with the concept that Bernie Sanders will wish he had originated and one Republicans will fight to the death. Guaranteed voting for everyone over the age of 18. She was at Texas Southern University in Houston calling for every American to be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18 unless they choose not to be. In 2013 SCOTUS weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by allowing new restrictions on those wanting to vote. Hillary's proposed law would re enable millions who have suffered limits to their voting rights.

Is it possible Clinton's voting rights legislation will not only help a Democrat win the presidency in 2016, but, if used in those congressional districts up for election, help win back the House and Senate for the Dems? Hell yes I say!

Zachary Roth of MSNBC says, "it could put the GOP on notice that further efforts to make voting harder may backfire by giving Democrats a tool to motivate their supporters." Clinton chastised her Republican opponents not to continue “fearmongering about a phantom epidemic of voter fraud.” And here are a couple of facts from Roth to support the candidate's proposal: 1) Between one quarter and one third of all Americans aren’t registered to vote. 2) Around 50 million eligible voters aren’t registered, according to a recent study by the Center for Popular Democracy, based on Census Bureau data.

But if history repeats itself, the GOP will leave no rock unturned that could prevent Democrats from voting.

Nasty Jack

[SunSeeker]

1. Still waiting for the GOP to explain how early voting causes voter fraud. nt

[DFW]

2. Here's how.

I posted this elsewhere, but I think it gives an accurate description of the Republican argument against it:

Interviewer: "This is Cable Nightly Nonsense, and you're in the Degradation Room."

"Senator/Madam Secretary/Governor, you have come out in favor of universal voter registration for all American citizens. Why, and why now?"

Sanders/Clinton/O'Malley: "Too many Americans have been denied--and are still being denied--their right to vote, with the justification being anything other than the real reason: because they might vote Democratic. Sure, this proposal will benefit Democrats, but the only reason this is so is because the only ones trying to deny certain citizens their right to vote have been Republicans. If their policies are so wonderful, let them win elections with legitimate majorities of the voters. If not, they should improve their policies until the voters like them better than ours. But don't hide behind disallowing people to vote and then saying the people have spoken in your favor while you are forbidding some of them from speaking at all."

Interviewer: "OK, (generic Republican oaf), you have heard the Democratic argument for universal voter registration. Why do you oppose it?"

Generic Republican oaf: "Well, Wolf, it's obvious that this is not an attempt to get more Americans to vote, but really a rgtsxtl grbssch against the Republican Party, and this is borne out by the fact that a Fox poll showed that 127% of Americans przeszablxk sjrblax glrbbung, and libbruls are just ignoring it."

Interviewer: "Well, (generic Republican oaf), you certainly do have a valid point there, no question about it. We're out of time, so we'll have to leave it at that............"

[SunSeeker]

3. So, in essence, "It causes voter fraud because it causes voter fraud."

[DFW]

4. Republicans prefer their supporters have a different perception of reality than we do

It helps them vote themselves into poverty and ignorance while believing it is best for them.