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bvar22

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Wed Jun 26, 2013, 01:29 PM Jun 2013

"SUPREME COURT FREES AMERICANS FROM BURDEN OF VOTING" [View all]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — By a five-to-four vote, the Supreme Court today acted, in the words of Justice Antonin Scalia, “to relieve millions of Americans from the onerous burden of having to vote.”

Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia stated, “Since 1965, citizens across the nation have lived under the tyranny of being forced to elect people to represent them. This is an important step to free them from that unfair and heinous obligation.”

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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/06/supreme-court-frees-americans-from-burden-of-voting.html#entry-more


Borowitz Nails It Again!

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