John Lewis's Final Fight For Voting Rights In The United States of America

[Old 'N Chill]

As Americans who know the importance of a democracy and the freedom to vote in all of our elections, we should make sure that republicans do not succeed in suppressing our votes any further. We should all be able to vote easily and without fear in our communities. Those who try to stop Americans from voting, are unpatriotic, and fear losing if the voices of all Americans are heard. That is anti-American, and we cannot go backward in this country.

Lewis, a civil rights leader and Georgia Democrat, died at the age of 80 from complications related to pancreatic cancer on July 17, 2020. As the head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, he was the youngest speaker at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. In 1965, he led the march from Selma to Birmingham, Alabama, that left him with a broken skull after white police officers assaulted the marchers. Congress responded to the “Bloody Sunday” assault by passing the Voting Rights Act. As a congressman representing Atlanta for 34 years, he came to be known as the “conscience of Congress,” hosting members of both parties for annual pilgrimages to the bridge in Selma where, in his words, he “gave a little blood.”

In his eulogy for the late congressman, former President Barack Obama called on politicians to “honor John” by not only passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965 but also “to make it even better.” Obama called for Congress to pass legislation to expand voting rights by making voter registration automatic, adding polling locations to eliminate long lines to vote, restoring voting rights to ex-felons and making Election Day a national holiday.

John Lewis’s Final Fight For Voting Rights

Democrats' big reform bill contains 300 pages expanding voting rights that were written by the late civil rights leader.

www.huffpost.com

 

[trixare4kids]

The above is a leftwing talking point and false narrative.
The Republicans do not want to suppress voting rights.

Protecting election integrity means what it says...

 

[Peter]

The above is a leftwing talking point and false narrative.
The Republicans do not want to suppress voting rights.

Protecting election integrity means what it says...

Are you bloody kidding us?

The Republicans have been trying to suppress and deny people the right to vote for decades. It's not hidden and even someone like me in the UK knows it's going on and is disgusted.

The "It's not happening" argument is so partisanly blind to reality it would be funny if it wasn't so serious.

 

[NatMorton]

As Americans who know the importance of a democracy and the freedom to vote in all of our elections, we should make sure that republicans do not succeed in suppressing our votes any further. We should all be able to vote easily and without fear in our communities. Those who try to stop Americans from voting, are unpatriotic, and fear losing if the voices of all Americans are heard. That is anti-American, and we cannot go backward in this country.

John Lewis’s Final Fight For Voting Rights

Democrats' big reform bill contains 300 pages expanding voting rights that were written by the late civil rights leader.

www.huffpost.com

As rational adults, we should be able to recognized straw-men and scare tactics where and when they are used. There is no meaningful voter suppression going on in the United States. Anyone who tells you differently is either ignorant of the facts or working a political agenda.

 

[Captain Adverse]

The above is a leftwing talking point and false narrative.
The Republicans do not want to suppress voting rights.

Protecting election integrity means what it says...

For some reason, some people choose to equate "election security" with "voter suppression."

Now back in the old "Democratic inspired Jim Crow days" there were actual efforts to suppress voting. Voting Rights for Blacks and Poor Whites in the Jim Crow South - America's Black Holocaust Museum (abhmuseum.org)

There were poll taxes, reading requirements, writing requirements, property requirements, all-white primaries, and race-based voting list "purges" to name a few, all used to disenfranchise Black and even poor White voters.

Now "leftists" are comparing simple requirements for ALL citizens of having some form of standard ID and a signature on their paper ballot (or vote card before voting electronically when they sign in to vote in person) with those old Jim Crow laws.

They also cry "voter suppression" when States opt to limit absentee balloting to pre-requested ballots, mailed or otherwise delivered directly to the requestor, and which require putting legal identifiers (signature and SSAN or State ID number) before mailing them in.

None of these types of requirements which are administered EQUALLY to all citizens, regardless of race, sex, age, or other "self-identifiers" are either onerous, or unreasonable expectations for CITIZENS to vote.

What is problematic is this idea that the process should be so convenient, so unrestricted that it would be possible for: non-citizens to vote; for voter fraud (dead people voting, people voting using someone else's ballot); for actual voter suppression via "harvesters" trashing votes collected for candidates they oppose, or efforts to bully, buy, or otherwise compromise absentee voting.

 

[Old 'N Chill]

361 voter suppression bills have already been introduced this year by republicans who know they can't win elections if all Americans have easy access to the ballot.

Fueled by Trump’s big lie that the 2020 election was stolen and retaliating against Democratic victories in November, Republicans are dramatically intensifying their campaign to restrict access to the ballot. According to a new report by the Brennan Center for Justice, 361 bills to make it harder to vote have been introduced in 47 states in the first three months of this year, overwhelmingly by Republicans. That’s up from 253 restrictive bills tallied as of February 19, an increase of 43 percent in just over a month.

“In a backlash to 2020’s historic voter turnout, and under the pretense of responding to baseless and racist allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities, state lawmakers have introduced a startling number of bills to curb the vote,” the report says.

361 voter suppression bills have already been introduced this year

Republicans in state legislatures are dramatically escalating their efforts to restrict voting rights.

www.motherjones.com

 

[Old 'N Chill]

Are you bloody kidding us?

The Republicans have been trying to suppress and deny people the right to vote for decades. It's not hidden and even someone like me in the UK knows it's going on and is disgusted.

The "It's not happening" argument is so partisanly blind to reality it would be funny if it wasn't so serious.

Well said, people who want to suppress voting in the United States will always lie about their intentions, that's usually the way it goes and the republicans are the ones who don't want all Americans to vote, except those who will vote for them, they care more about winning than democracy.

 

[trixare4kids]

The Republicans effort to protect against fraud and make sure only eligible voters can cast ballots is not voter suppression.

Ever notice how leftists have buzz words for everything they don't like?

 

[SCrider]

The Republicans effort to protect against fraud and make sure only eligible voters can cast ballots is not voter suppression.

Ever notice how leftists have buzz words for everything they don't like?

So this is all a big thing to protect against something that has not happened? Yeah Bullshit.

 

[trixare4kids]

So this is all a big thing to protect against something that has not happened? Yeah Bullshit.

Feel free to prove that protecting the integrity of the vote is "Yeah Bullshit".

 

[SCrider]

Feel free to prove that protecting the integrity of the vote is "Yeah Bullshit".

Doing it this way is just BUllshit because your asshole lost. Even his own people said this was the most secure election ever. Yet you won't admit it because you are sore losers.

 

[Binary_Digit]

Feel free to prove that protecting the integrity of the vote is "Yeah Bullshit".

Feel free to prove that election fraud is actually a problem that needs to be addressed. You've had six months and more than 60 court cases. What's the holdup?

 

[SCrider]

Feel free to prove that election fraud is actually a problem that needs to be addressed. You've had six months and more than 60 court cases. What's the holdup?

Hell any reasonable person would know it's all Bullshit. That's the legal defense. Great to see who is still not reasonable here......

 

[eohrnberger]

The Republicans effort to protect against fraud and make sure only eligible voters can cast ballots is not voter suppression.

Ever notice how leftists have buzz words for everything they don't like?

Ever notice how the 'news' media (political propaganda) is in lockstep with those exact same buzzwords?
So much so that it is a near impossible coincidence.

 

[SCrider]

Ever notice how the 'news' media (political propaganda) is in lockstep with those exact same buzzwords?
So much so that it is a near impossible coincidence.

What exactly would you call trying to make it more difficult for a group that tends to vote against you to vote?

Good thing you Cons never use buzz words to scare yourselves into believing your own Bull shit.

 

[eohrnberger]

What exactly would you call trying to make it more difficult for a group that tends to vote against you to vote?

If in context of the Georgia election integrity and security law recently signed into law, I'd call your statement a fabrication.
The truth is that that law actually increased the number of days / times in which voters could vote. Far more so than the NYS election laws do.
So you gonna call NYS' election laws and rules racist now? Voter suppression? Do please proceed.

Good thing you Cons never use buzz words to scare yourselves into believing your own Bull shit.

Meh. I'm not taking the position that conservatives don't do the same thing, they probably do, but since when does 2 wrongs make a right?
In my post I was being specific to Democrats and the media, in case you hadn't noticed.

As far as 'believing your own Bull shit', that too is far more applicable to the left.

Just recently, Biden made claims about the Georgia election integrity and security law which were rightfully rated as 4 Pinocchios by the left leaning Washington Post, yet: the Democrats and their Dem buzzword parroting media spread it all around as if it were the absolute truth, and all the people of the left still believe that bullshit.

This only the most recent of what has become an exceptionally well worn path since even before the 2016 elections.

'believing your own Bull shit', far more applicable to the left, sorry.

 

[GDViking]

The Republicans effort to protect against fraud and make sure only eligible voters can cast ballots is not voter suppression.

Ever notice how leftists have buzz words for everything they don't like?

So what would you call passing draconian laws that make it far more difficult for certain people to vote???

Laws that are supposed to fix a proven nonexistent problem???

 

[Binary_Digit]

Ever notice how the 'news' media (political propaganda) is in lockstep with those exact same buzzwords?
So much so that it is a near impossible coincidence.

Maybe the media is brainwashing everyone into believing a false narrative.

Or, maybe the media is just reflecting what everyone else already knows to be true.

Or, maybe the truth is somewhere in between.

In any case, I don't see it as a coincidence, so much as a comeuppance for dishonest political strategies. If the GOP doesn't like being accused of voter suppression, then maybe they shouldn't push election legislation advertised to address fake problems.

 

[trixare4kids]

So what would you call passing draconian laws that make it far more difficult for certain people to vote???

Laws that are supposed to fix a proven nonexistent problem???

Note that "draconian" is another of the left's buzz words...

There is nothing draconian in protecting the integrity of the vote.
In order to do this, every effort must be made to protect impersonation at the polls, eliminating false registrations, and duplicate voting.

A top Democratic operative says voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth. And he knows this because he’s been doing it, on a grand scale, for decades.

Political insider explains voter fraud with mail-in ballots (nypost.com)

 

[eohrnberger]

Maybe the media is brainwashing everyone into believing a false narrative.

Or, maybe the media is just reflecting what everyone else already knows to be true.

Or, maybe the truth is somewhere in between.

In any case, I don't see it as a coincidence, so much as a comeuppance for dishonest political strategies. If the GOP doesn't like being accused of voter suppression, then maybe they shouldn't push election legislation advertised to address fake problems.

Well, that's where you and I have different opinions and have arrived at differing conclusions.

I too don't believe that it's a coincidence, but I see it as deliberately misleading on both the Democrats and their complicit media's part, this promulgating of fabrications about the recently signed election security and integrity being into Georgia law.

Rather than the claim of being a law which increases 'voter suppression', this Georgia law makes more days and more early voting, including weekends BTW, available to legal and legitimate voters (even more so than NYS and Delaware laws for example) and increases election security and integrity. Who could possibly not want that?

Also of concern specific to the media is how they've gone from 'reporting ON politics' to being 'active participants IN politics', 'Speaking Truth To Power' and 'Holding The Nation's Leaders' being apparently applied to only non-Democrats.

 

[GDViking]

Note that "draconian" is another of the left's buzz words...

There is nothing draconian in protecting the integrity of the vote.
In order to do this, every effort must be made to protect impersonation at the polls, eliminating false registrations, and duplicate voting.



Political insider explains voter fraud with mail-in ballots (nypost.com)

Okay prove that those things happen often enough to pass laws that will interfere with people voting...

 

[KevinKohler]

As Americans who know the importance of a democracy and the freedom to vote in all of our elections, we should make sure that republicans do not succeed in suppressing our votes any further. We should all be able to vote easily and without fear in our communities. Those who try to stop Americans from voting, are unpatriotic, and fear losing if the voices of all Americans are heard. That is anti-American, and we cannot go backward in this country.

John Lewis’s Final Fight For Voting Rights

Democrats' big reform bill contains 300 pages expanding voting rights that were written by the late civil rights leader.

www.huffpost.com

Whats the difference between this and the crap dems want to impose on would be gun owners?

 

[Rawley]

In any case, I don't see it as a coincidence, so much as a comeuppance for dishonest political strategies. If the GOP doesn't like being accused of voter suppression, then maybe they shouldn't push election legislation advertised to address fake problems.

Would you appreciate it if the President of the US was chanting that you are a racist on national TV, day after day after day?

 

[BlueTex]

Note that "draconian" is another of the left's buzz words...

There is nothing draconian in protecting the integrity of the vote.
In order to do this, every effort must be made to protect impersonation at the polls, eliminating false registrations, and duplicate voting.



Political insider explains voter fraud with mail-in ballots (nypost.com)

Do you ever find it odd that you can get a credit card online with $50,000 in credit and the card will be at your house in a couple of days yet we act like someone registering and casting a single vote is some double top secret endeavor?

 

[trixare4kids]

Are you bloody kidding us?

The Republicans have been trying to suppress and deny people the right to vote for decades. It's not hidden and even someone like me in the UK knows it's going on and is disgusted.

The "It's not happening" argument is so partisanly blind to reality it would be funny if it wasn't so serious.

Get out of the fifties and sixties, and embrace the present. Nobody has attempted to deny anyone their right to vote.