Victories For Right To Vote Mounting In Republican Controlled States That Tried To Limit Voting

After a year or more of attempts to limit the right to vote for senior citizens, college students, minorities, and the poor, the forces battling for the right to vote are winning victories, due to court action by the federal government, and decisions of federal judges in favor of the whole basis of democracy—voting!

Florida, Texas, and Ohio are among the states where the tide has turned, and Pennsylvania is awaiting a six member state Supreme Court decision that is thought to be ready to throw out the limits on voting set up by the Republican legislature and governor, with the three Republican members of the Court showing skepticism about the limit on voting rights.

This trend makes the likelihood of Barack Obama winning all of the above states, except Texas, more realistic, and it is a stain on the GOP that the party that expanded the right to vote to include African Americans in 1870, and supported civil rights at its founding, now has become the image of the Southern Democrats of the 1870s to the 1960s, who took away the right to vote and promoted Jim Crow segregation!

This is a time for mourning for the Republican Party of the past, which was principled and on the side of voting rights, and now has been captured by extreme right wing elements that are against basic democracy, what people in all nations around the world fight and die for—the right to express their view of who should govern them!

One comment on “Victories For Right To Vote Mounting In Republican Controlled States That Tried To Limit Voting

  1. Engineer Of Knowledge September 16, 2012 12:39 pm

    Hello Professor,
    As you have stated that it is the Judicial Branches that is correcting the expunging of citizens of voting simply because they are more likely NOT to vote for the Republican Party in those states in their control today.

    Another example of how important this election is to make sure the Bastions of Justice and Sanity not being corrupted anymore than it is by the likes of Karl Rove’s Republicans.

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