On Thursday, Hillary Clinton waded into the populist fight against voter ID laws and other state moves to prevent the all-too-common voter fraud that has plagued elections for decades by calling for automatic voter registration at 18 years of age. She also called to give convicted criminals back their voting privileges.
The race/ethnicity section of the form was optional, and conveyed no benefit to the registrant – there was nothing for Bush to gain by deliberately misrepresenting himself as Hispanic, even if it could be proven that he did this intentionally. There wasn’t any political benefit to doing so, either, and there is no evidence that Bush ever sought to (absurdly) turn his “Hispanic” voter registration into a political asset, since the form lay dormant in the archives until surfacing this week.
The voter ID argument is over. and conservatives won. All that remains is to square away a few details, and ensure each new state law meets the standards approved by the Supreme Court in a landmark Indiana case.
Along with the many other reforms Republican Governor Scott Walker has successfully delivered n Wisconsin, just as his potential Republican rival Sen. Ted Cruz announced his campaign for the presidency, the Supreme Court of the United States added another significant
President Obama urged Congress to “restore” the Voting Rights Act during his remarks recounting the history of the Civil Rights Era and discussing the history of the US and its present state in Selma, Alabama on Saturday marking the 50th
MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews argued that the “white people” pushing voter ID laws “don’t have any sense of fairness” on Thursday. In an interview with Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) what thinks of “these Republicans, who even though some of
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) said, “I’ve often asked myself: ‘Why you should have to register to vote?’”
MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews said that “I don’t see how anybody who’s African-American would think about voting Republican as long as Reince Priebus is running the show” due to the GOP’s support for voter ID laws on Wednesday. “They’re
