That’s Dorothy Cooper, who you’ve met before. She’s 96 years old and almost wasn’t going to be able to vote this year because stringent new voter identification laws passed in her state, Tennessee, intended to, well, keep people from her like voting. Because her story made news, she got some attention and help from a… Read more »
Posts Tagged: voter suppression
James O’Keefe proves, again, voter fraud is a Republican stunt
James O’Keefe is bound and determined to prove that voter fraud exists, so he keeps sending his minions out to attempt to commit it. He put a video out last week showing some guy going to a polling location for D.C.’s primary, and asking if Eric Holder…
Michigan takes voter suppression to unbelievable lengths
Rachel Maddow devoted the last segment of her show Thursday to Michigan, and to the astounding lengths to which that state’s Republican legislature and governor have gone to essentially overthrow democracy. If you can, watch the whole thing:
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This week in the War on Voting: Sharrrrrron Angle is back!
Since this fight needs a little levity every now and then, I bring you Sharrrrron Angle
She’s going to be focusing her prodigious political skills to exposing “America’s silent epidemic”—voter fraud. How it could possibly be silent when the Right ha…