Obama has now delivered a third body blow to the war on drugs

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8. Voting rights are a STATE issue. STATES control elections--even federal ones.

He is not a king, and he cannot order a state to conduct their elections in any specific way.


This is why some ex-felons can vote in some states, and can't in others.

Terry McAuliffe took so much shit as governor when he restored the rights of felons (he had to sign each document--many thousands of them--individually) because the STATES have ownership of the process.

The way to win the voting rights battle is to do it at the state level. There's no way that a GOP Congress is going to create any law that encourages people who will not vote for them to have the right of enfranchisement--and that's how any sweeping federal change would have to be made, absent a civil rights - type issue that is decided at the Supreme Court.

If you live in a state that denies these rights, I would urge you to find the group working to change them, and offer time, cash, and other support to them.