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1. Jim Crow is alive in voter ID laws, cutting early voting and forcing people

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Tue Feb 26, 2013, 07:17 PM

Feb 2013

to wait so many hours to vote.
There is a line in the movie Mississippi Burning that goes "give the black man the right to vote but don't let him use it."
That was about the 60's and it is still true today.

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Jim Crow is alive in voter ID laws, cutting early voting and forcing people upaloopa Feb 2013 #1